I am trying to rid myself of a partition on a hard drive. I have Win 2000 and Win XP, I am trying to delete Win 2000. I have decide to take a more pragmatic approach. I have reinstalled PartitionMagic 8.0 and have copied my XP partition to a new drive. Its boots fine through Multi Boot. I now have two identicial XP partitions on two different drives and they boot without problems. If I disable my old drive, the new drive will not boot. Prior to the PM copy Disk Management showed my C: Drive Win 2000 as Healthy (System) and my D: Drive XP as Healthy (Boot). After the copy my c: Drive says Healthy (System), my D: Drive says Healthy (Page File) and the new XP G:seperate drive is Healthy (Boot) Is it possible with what David Chan said I may be able to use? FIXMBR to make the new drive bootable? Would I have to copy other thing such as NTLDL etc If no further comments, I guess I will back up the original drive and try David Chans other qualified solution. Delete the Win 2000 parition reformat it and hope XP boots. It would be great if we could find a sernario we could use and diseminate. Thank you all Format.com

If your XP partition is indead the Boot partition, I suggest going to XP's disk management option and deleting the 2000 partition and then recreating it. XP will not cut it's own throat, so if it lets you delete the partition you know you are OK. Right click my computer/manage/disk management. Once there it is easy to figure out. Good luck

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