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How to remove 98SE on C: partition on a dual boot 98/2000 setup?
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| BLueCoBra 2004-01-11, 12:23 am |
| I have a computer dual booting windows 98SE and 2000 Pro.
98 is on C: and 2000 is on D:. The C: partition is corrupted, when I go to
reinstall 98 it hangs at 'configuring hardware' part of the installation.
I'm trying to keep 2000 on the hard drive, just want to format/clean the C
partition.
I have tried cloning 2000 with Ghost to a separate hard drive but then it
won't boot from it after being properly configured. I keep getting a 'press
any key to reboot' during the boot up process. I understand that this is
probably due to the fact im cloning a D partition to a C partition and may
not work.
When doing a Speed Disk on the original hard drive it shows a lot of 'data
that cannot be moved' for the C partition but the D is fine.
I'm at a roadblock here, everyone I ask have never ran into this situation
as most ppl don't dual boot in the first place.
What I would like to end up doing is to get the 2000 partition (D) moved
into the C partition, while keeping data intact, with no other OS's on the
drive anymore.
Any help and insight would be greatly appreciated.
TIA
BLueCoBra
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| mark mandel 2004-01-11, 1:23 am |
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"BLueCoBra" <bluecobra@*nospam*intergate.com> wrote in message
news:1001jcgcpmitq75@corp.supernews.com...
> I have a computer dual booting windows 98SE and 2000 Pro.
> 98 is on C: and 2000 is on D:. The C: partition is corrupted, when I go to
> reinstall 98 it hangs at 'configuring hardware' part of the installation.
> I'm trying to keep 2000 on the hard drive, just want to format/clean the C
> partition.
> I have tried cloning 2000 with Ghost to a separate hard drive but then it
> won't boot from it after being properly configured. I keep getting a
'press
> any key to reboot' during the boot up process. I understand that this is
> probably due to the fact im cloning a D partition to a C partition and may
> not work.
> When doing a Speed Disk on the original hard drive it shows a lot of
'data
> that cannot be moved' for the C partition but the D is fine.
> I'm at a roadblock here, everyone I ask have never ran into this situation
> as most ppl don't dual boot in the first place.
> What I would like to end up doing is to get the 2000 partition (D) moved
> into the C partition, while keeping data intact, with no other OS's on the
> drive anymore.
> Any help and insight would be greatly appreciated.
> TIA
>
> BLueCoBra
>
>
Well, if this is anything like my recent experience with a dual boot of 98
and XP, even after restoring a ghost image to the partition you STILL may
have to do a "repair/install". This is because the critical booting
files(like boot.ini)may not get transferred to the drive.
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