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06-03-2005, 12:10 AM
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WinXp on Slave HD
I just bought a new hard drive and installed windowsXP on it. I set my old hard drive to slave, which also has windowsXP on it. Is there a way to remove windows xp from my old hard drive without formatting? Can i just delete the windows folder and programs files?
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06-03-2005, 06:57 AM
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Aslong as you have the boot.ini file properly edited, only the master hard drive will boot into an Operating System.
Windows will recognize the main hard drive as having the operating system, and the other drive as a "Storage Device". Although, I have never ran two hard drives with an OS on both of them, but I am pretty sure I have seen people do these kind of things, and Windows would just boot from one, and see it as a storage device with the other. |
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06-03-2005, 07:15 AM
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Is there any special reason for not formating?
But of course you can try and delete unwonted Windows folder and Program files it's your's decision what you going to do with your staff!!!
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06-03-2005, 07:23 AM
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i have a lot of stuff on the old drive i want to keep and am just too lazy to copy what i need over to the new one and format the old one. It would be easier just to remove the windows folder and the porgrams files.
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06-03-2005, 07:32 AM
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There's a DOS command DELTREE if Im not mistaken where you can delete only system files and your desired folders only.
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06-03-2005, 09:52 AM
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Deltree is not an available command in the 2K/XP command shell.
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06-03-2005, 10:58 AM
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Lol that was honest answer, once when you filling not lazy just do what you described and format, it will take you not more than one hour to finish!!!
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06-04-2005, 07:53 AM
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I think he can use a Win98 Boot Disk to have the DELTREE command.
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06-04-2005, 12:00 PM
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Deltree is not on the bootdisk by default, you have to add it. Not only that, but 98 can't read NTFS.
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06-04-2005, 07:54 PM
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I forgot about the File System of the HDD. Its NTFS. Sorry abot that. If Im not mistaken FORMAT [drive letter]: /s is to delete the system files only right.
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06-05-2005, 12:28 PM
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No, format x: /s reformats the drive and installs the system files to make it bootable. If you try to format a drive that's NTFS with a 98 bootdisk, it won't be able to find a drive to format. To 98, a NTFS partition does not exist.
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