I don't want to do everything from scratch again;-)Old system (NF2) was upgraded to NF4 system (3800+ Dual core). I added a SATA drive to the existing 2 PATA drive system. Installed WMC to the SATA drive so that I could consult the primary PATA drive on what I had configured and installed. Old
At 12:46 PM 12/29/2005, Steve Tomporowski typed:
Now I want to get rid of Win2k. Actually I'd like to reformat the C
drive. However, there seems to be stuff in the C root like boot.ini
that includes reference to both installs. I fear that the C: is
really the boot drive. Can I just
So, Boot.ini is the only thing I need to retain, the rest of the drive can go?On 12/29/05, Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:At 12:46 PM 12/29/2005, Steve Tomporowski typed:Now I want to get rid of Win2k.Actually I'd like to reformat the C
drive.However, there seems to be stuff in the C root
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
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
At 01:45 PM 12/29/2005, Steve Tomporowski typed:
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
Thanks Wayne. I'll take a look at getting rid of the /winnt directory. There's also an io.sys and msdos.sys in the C: root, but of size 0. Artifacts probably--that Win2k install was very old, upgraded in steps from Win95 OSR2 (!?). Now I'm off to edit the
boot.ini file. Hmmm, I bet it's
