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replacing an OS in dual boot situat
Name: yzhang Date: August 31, 2002 at 06:50:40 Pacific
Comment:
what would be the best way to replace winME with win98 in a dual-boot situation where winME is in C: and WINXP in a logical partition, thanks very much.
Name: redpepper Date: August 31, 2002 at 07:12:18 Pacific
Reply:
boot with ME bootdisk, at A> prompt type sys C: which will erase dual boot MBR again next boot with 98 floppy and at A> prompt type format C: then press enter once your C drive is formated , again boot with win98 floppy and choose start with cd-rom support and put your cdrom in the drive to install win98. once 98 is installed, start 98 and put XP cdrom in drive and choose repair option for xp and repair MBR . HTH
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Name: yzhang Date: August 31, 2002 at 07:28:24 Pacific
Summary: Does anyone have suggestions for really good tech help sites for help detailed tips on setting up dual boot systems. My main questions now are pros / cons of having an XP / Win98 dual boot with both O...
Summary: The best way to kill XP (and any OS) in dual booting: - make fdisk and boot disk from WIN 98 SE on a floppy - make setup disk(s) from WIN XP 1. Start XP with fdisk 2. Delete partiton on which XP is (t...
Summary: not sure if this is good but I did reformat my dual OS before, I am not sure it's the best way to remove an OS but it does not cause me any problem. The only little problem that I encounter is that w...
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