Re: [H] Getting Rid of the extra Operating System

[Steve Tomporowski]

Should have been more explicit.  WMC was meant to be Windows Media Center Edition, my bad.  Nope, no third party boot managers used.  I expected the Win2k install to fail on the new MB, but was surprised when it worked.  Not totally, it refused to load the audio driver.  It's just a this point, I don't know which of the files in the C: root belong to which operating system.  I was surprised to find boot.ini on C:

Steve

On 12/29/05, Wayne Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

At 01:27 PM 12/29/2005, Steve Tomporowski typed:
>So, Boot.ini is the only thing I need to retain, the rest of the drive can go?

In your OP you say both installs & the subject says extra OS but you
never do say what the extra OS is.  I ass-u-me that it is XP in which
case XP had to be installed after 2k unless you use a boot mgr. If
you don't use a boot mgr & you installed the OSes in order which you
would have had to then you can just delete any reference to 2k in
your boot.ini file [back it up 1st if you like] & any files that
belong to 2k ONLY. If any of the files are shared between the OSes
then they'll need to stay.  FWIW I've done this several times & it
works as advertised. The whole key is that 2k was installed prior to
Xp & you did NOT use a 3rd party boot mgr.


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    Wayne D. Johnson
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