Win2k and Win95

BruceYBruceY S. Jersey
edited January 2004 in Science & Tech
I have dual boot setup with the above OS's. 95 for some older programs. That partition is fat32 (win95 OSR2). and the rest is NTFS. Should I decide in the near future to just have Win2k and I want to get rid rid of Win95, can I just reformat that partition. Will win2k , upon bootup, stop asking me which OS I want IF it only sees 1 OS????? What steps can I do in order NOT to loose info I have on the WIN2K

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  • verselloversello New
    edited January 2004
    Check to see if your Win2k is your boot partition first (control panel -> administrative tewls -> computer management -> disk management). You can convert the win2k partition to be yer boot in there.

    If you do convert it, then you have to copy the following files to the root directory (eg., D:\ ) of your new boot partition: boot.ini, ntldr and ntdetect.com.

    If it isn't and you remove your Win95b parition, then you'll be SOL and have to use a bootdisk lying around with the required win2k bootup files.

    Aside from that, when u remove win95, it will still ask u about it... so you'll have to manually remove it in control panel -> system properties -> advanced -> start up and recovery settings -> edit -> and remove the line referencing to win95.

    gl.
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