I've got two primary boot partitions

[AlphaIVT]

I've got two boot partitions, my old one and my new one, the system boots off the new one while the old one is still connected. If I delete the old partition, it won't have any nasty effects would it?

 

[hans007]

you hav eto make a boot disk, and set the other one active. If you dont want to format the other just use the bootdisk to set the old one to not active in fdisk

 

[Warrenton]

you can set active flags from within windows. Just run fdisk from the run line. And no, it only boots off of the first device specified in the BIOS. You can only have one active partition on a drive, so if you have two primary partitions on the same drive only one is active. Of course that also means you are running win2k.

 

[AlphaIVT]

So if this active partition is working A-OK, I can delete the old "was back-up" partition and fit Win2k on it?


Also, I have 100MB space of a partition that I made accidently, PartitionMagic 5's crappy feature of merging it as a folder I dislike, is there another way to get that free space onto my action partition?

 

[Doomsday]

Ya, you should have no problems deleting/reformating the old partition, and for that 100MB partition, I don't know of any other way to do it without loosing all the information on your hard drive other then partition magic. You can try looking for other utilities like partition magic.