I have 2 hdd in this system and want to remove one and use the remaining larger drive without having to reinstall XP.
When i installed the 2nd xp to the 2nd hdd, the boot partition C: was and still is the small hdd.
How do I seperate the two?
Would copying the contents of C: to D1 and doing a FDISK/mbr work after removing the D0 hdd?
D0: 10gb, that originally had my primary system. Added a 2nd, D1:30gb hdd and kept the 10 as a backup o/s.
My problem is that I want to remove the 10gb hdd (partition C
and only have one 30gb running XP Partition F: (that is already installed).
Windows XP configuration is such:
D0: C: 250mb fat16 Primary
D: 5.5gb Wxp NTFS
E: 4gb Fat32
D1: F: 5gb Wxp NTFS - Primary - (This is the o/s I mostly have been using).
G: 9 gb NTFS
H 15gb NTFS
Apparently XP placed some boot files on the C: primary partition.
I tried removing the D0 drive but could not boot up. Nor could I reinstall XP as another install on D1.
I am getting tired of XP locking me out of installing/reinstalling the o/s because of a hardware change.
Is there a way to do this without wiping the Wxp partition and reinstalling? Don't even know if it will install if I did do this. Apparently it won't because it never would get past loading files before giving erroneous error messages that files were missing when they were not.
Summary: I wish to remove the 10gb C: drive and make F the new C:
I have all the latest partitioning tools (PM, DI, etc).
Currently I run out of the second hdd (D1) partition F:
When i installed the 2nd xp to the 2nd hdd, the boot partition C: was and still is the small hdd.
How do I seperate the two?
Would copying the contents of C: to D1 and doing a FDISK/mbr work after removing the D0 hdd?
D0: 10gb, that originally had my primary system. Added a 2nd, D1:30gb hdd and kept the 10 as a backup o/s.
My problem is that I want to remove the 10gb hdd (partition C
and only have one 30gb running XP Partition F: (that is already installed).Windows XP configuration is such:
D0: C: 250mb fat16 Primary
D: 5.5gb Wxp NTFS
E: 4gb Fat32
D1: F: 5gb Wxp NTFS - Primary - (This is the o/s I mostly have been using).
G: 9 gb NTFS
H 15gb NTFS
Apparently XP placed some boot files on the C: primary partition.
I tried removing the D0 drive but could not boot up. Nor could I reinstall XP as another install on D1.
I am getting tired of XP locking me out of installing/reinstalling the o/s because of a hardware change.
Is there a way to do this without wiping the Wxp partition and reinstalling? Don't even know if it will install if I did do this. Apparently it won't because it never would get past loading files before giving erroneous error messages that files were missing when they were not.
Summary: I wish to remove the 10gb C: drive and make F the new C:
I have all the latest partitioning tools (PM, DI, etc).
Currently I run out of the second hdd (D1) partition F:
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