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January 26th, 2002, 09:33 AM
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| Best way to un-dual boot???
I currently have dual boot win98se/win2k, basically i wanna get rid of win98se, but i don't wanna format my win2k partition if possible. Could i simply just format the win98se partition and still keep the win2k partition as it is? Or would formating the win98se partition get rid of the boot record?
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January 26th, 2002, 11:45 AM
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You shouldn't have any problem with formatting the FAT32 partition. My son did the same thing with one of his machines that had Win98/Win2k on one drive and Linux on the other -and he is using the Win2k bootloader.
Formatting does not change the MBR. | |
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January 26th, 2002, 01:05 PM
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Where's your Win98 partition? C: or D:? I use to dual boot my system, but by keeping Win98 on the C:, the boot files were there (boot.ini, ntdetect.com, and the always useful ntldr), while my Win2k install was on the D:. So, if I ever formatted the C:, I'd lose the boot info.
If your Win2k install is on C:, and Win98 on D:, then it's no biggie. Just remove the line for Win98 in your boot.ini file. | |
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January 26th, 2002, 03:50 PM
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If you do wind up toasting your 2K boot loader you can repair it using the CD in rescue mode by running "fixboot" | |
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January 26th, 2002, 03:58 PM
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| Interesting ...
When I undualed my dual boot (win2Kpro and Win98se) I formatted my drive. I didn't know of an alternative ... 
Good info.
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January 26th, 2002, 04:09 PM
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January 26th, 2002, 04:17 PM
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If you want to get rid of the bootloader screen....
You could go to startup and recovery under system properties-> advanced, and set "time to display operating system" to 0
just make sure the Default OS is set to Win2k and not Win98, or youll need to edit the boot.ini to fix it.
Then you can format C: if you so choose without really affecting things. Never done it myself, but I dont forsee any problems in doing that. | |
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January 26th, 2002, 08:41 PM
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alrighty, i'm gonna trust cmonster on this (so if it kills my boot up then hopefully that fixboot or wotever will work.)
If im not back in 10minutes........just wait longer!
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January 26th, 2002, 09:11 PM
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|  uh oh!!!!!
Well, i can't boot, i tried that fixboot and still nothing, i keep getting "cannot find ntldr" or woteva. I was gonna try going a fixmbr but then it warned that i would loose partitioning info which i definatly DO NOT wanna do.
If i loose my win2k partition its not that big of a deal, but i'd prefer not to. If i loose my Data partition i'm in big big trouble! Lots of important stuff there which i probably wont be able to replace easily.
U guys got any idea's before i just re-install win2k?
JayMan | |
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January 26th, 2002, 09:26 PM
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