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lazarus

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Sun Jun-13-04 08:02 PM
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tech folk: partitioning question

I want to move windows from my C drive to my D drive. These are just partitions of the same physical drive. Any easy way to do it, or should I just not bother?

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Spider Jerusalem

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Sun Jun-13-04 08:07 PM
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1. Copy the entire Windows directory from the C partition to the D partition.

Then reboot, go into CMOS settings, change your boot partition to D. Then reboot again and you should be able to safely delete the Windows directory on C.

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lazarus

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Sun Jun-13-04 08:09 PM
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2. hmm

Edited on Sun Jun-13-04 08:10 PM by lazarus

Just tried that, it gave me a win386 share violation, said it couldn't copy.

Hmm.

What I'm doing is trying to move win98 to the small D drive, and install WinXP on the big drive. Or is that a waste of time? I wanted to keep the Win98 just in case for older games and stuff.

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Spider Jerusalem

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Sun Jun-13-04 08:13 PM
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5. You can dual-boot 98 and XP.

Although most games will run on XP (except for older DOS stuff, which can be a pain in the arse to get to work). You can do thisa by installing XP to the same partition as 98. Just make SURE that you retain the FAT32 file system and don't convert to NTFS. Then when you start your machine you can bring up the XP boot loader and choose which OS you want to load.

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lazarus

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Sun Jun-13-04 08:14 PM
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6. same partition?

Okay, cool. So all I need to do is install, and keep FAT32, and put XP into the C: drive with 98, right?

That may be easier than I anticipated.

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Spider Jerusalem

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Sun Jun-13-04 08:17 PM
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8. Yup...same partition.

And MAKE SURE that you name the XP directory something like "winnt" or "winxp", and NOT "windows", otherwise your Win98 files will be overwritten.

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Deja Q

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Sun Jun-13-04 08:10 PM
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3. Which OS?

Edited on Sun Jun-13-04 08:11 PM by HypnoToad

Of the Windows series, only WinNT/2k/XP can use non-C: Drives.

Even if you did boot into DOS to do a copy, it wouldn't copy all the filenames over correctly and you'd a hard drive with a bunch of FILENA~1.xxx names that are incomprehensible, typical mcirosoft...

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lazarus

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Sun Jun-13-04 08:13 PM
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4. Ah

I'm using Win98. As I said above, I wanted to keep win98 on the smaller drive, and use WinXP on the main drive.

Should I instead install XP onto the small drive?

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Deja Q

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Sun Jun-13-04 08:16 PM
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7. Here's what to do:

Yes. Install XP on the new drive. When all is done, create the swap file on the Win98 drive. 2 hard drives is great as you'll improve swap file performance when XP needs to use hard drive instead of RAM. Which reminds me, WinXP wants 256mb minimum - go for 384 or 512mb.

If nothing else: DO NOT USE WIN XP'S UPGRADE FEATURE, always do a clean OS install. The upgrade feature, historically, has been a waste of time, especially for non-Win-2k systems (and even then with Win2k it's buggy) with the people who use it ultimately reformatting their hard drives anyway.

Whatever you do, back up all your data first.

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lazarus

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Sun Jun-13-04 08:19 PM
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9. That could be a problem

one reason I'm doing all this is that I"m having to upgrade my motherboard/CPU, because the old one can no longer see my CDRW.

Sigh.

So, I've got conflicting advice. :D

Should I then clean off the D: drive? I want to make sure I don't screw this up.

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