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03-14-2004, 01:15 PM
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tri boot question
I'm not sure if this is the right forum, so if not feel free to move it to where it belongs.
I have win98se, XP home, and Libranet on seperate partitions with GRUB doing the boot work and would like to uninstall 98se to free up some space for XP. Right now XP is formatted in fat32 so I thought I could just use c: as a storage drive and convert both to ntfs. Is my thinking correct? |
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03-14-2004, 02:22 PM
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If you format the C drive, you will lose the bootloader.
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03-15-2004, 11:26 AM
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Convert to ntfs? 98 cannot read/write ntfs...
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03-15-2004, 10:27 PM
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03-16-2004, 10:27 AM
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oh DUH! sorry.
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03-17-2004, 10:04 PM
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GLC, are you saying that if I do reformat c: (where only 98se resides) I lose all ability to multiboot? As a side note, when my pc boots, GRUB (linux os selection screen) comes on first where I select what OS I want to run, including windows. Then if I choose windows, I then can choose XP or 98.
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03-18-2004, 12:25 AM
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Correct. You could boot into XP and delete everything on C except certain files in the root directory to free up space, and remove win98 from the boot.ini.
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03-18-2004, 08:55 PM
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Thanks GLC. I thought that would be the case. Could I delete 98 by deltree/win? Then do a fixmbr with the xp disk?
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03-19-2004, 01:15 AM
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I'd simply delete everything in Windows Explorer from in XP - just tag all the folders in C and leave the files in the root directory alone. Make sure you have show hidden and protected system files enabled.
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03-20-2004, 02:13 PM
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Thanks for the advice everyone. I'm doing what GLC suggests and delete everything in c: except root directory files.
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