SAME PROBLEM I'M HAVING...BUT...NOT SURE HOW TO "BACK UP" FILES BEFORE I DO
THIS...ALREADY THOUGHT OF THIS SOLUTION.....HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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"Steve Nilsson" wrote:

> I've been reading the help forum some time but not found quite what I'm
> looking for, hence my question:
>
> My physical harddisk is currently partitioned into a few partitions. On C: I
> originally had W98 and then installed XP on D: and had them both available
> through the dual boot option. Due to problems with XP I had to reinstall it,
> still on the D: partition, and that is now working fine. At that time I also
> eliminated the dual boot by altering the boot.ini file so it would start with
> XP automatically (D: partition) as I never use W98 anymore.
>
> The problem I have now is that I want to install XP on my C: partition, and
> then eliminate XP from my D: partition. As I've read, moving XP does seem
> fairly complicated (and risky) so actually installing it on C: is fine with
> me. Now the question is how to actually do this? Can I just simply boot with
> the XP CD and install it straight on to the C: partition (where a 'non-used'
> W98 now resides) and then format D: to wipe it out from that partition? To me
> and my most limited knowledge this may pose problems along the following
> lines:
>
> 1) What about problems with the specific files I've read about that
> shouldn't be eliminated when taking out e.g. an old OS from first partition,
> C: in this case (e.g. the ~ntlr, ~ntdetect)
>
> 2) I think I read that only one OS per computer so the installation program
> won't allow me to do that in the first place (and no I don't want to buy an
> additional license)
>
> 3) Can you then just format D: to eliminate old XP that I don't want to use
> or will XP automatically create a dual boot which first has to be altered to
> only boot from the new installation on C: and after that you can format D:
> for other use of that partition?
>
> Any tip on how to install XP over an old W98 and then wipe the partition
> where the old XP resides is done is most welcome.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve