"MedRxman" wrote:

My PC has 2 physical HDD

First HDD is 80 GB C: as Primary

Second HDD is 40 GB with extended partitions
D: 20GB Primary
E: 10GB logical
F: 5 GB logical
G: 5 GB logical
Currently have a dual boot.

I have WIN 98 on Drive C(primary)
I have Win XP on Drive D(primary)
Drives E,F and G are Data only(logical)

Want to keep the dual boot but want to split the C drive and move the
WIN XP to the split C drive and keep the D designation.

I do have an image of the WinXP drive (D)

Can this be done? Best way?

PS: all drives are formatted FAT 32

Thanks in advance


What are you using for a Boot Manager? The Windows XP Boot.ini or a
third party utility?

You will need a third party partitioning utility in order to change
the existing C: drive partition without destroying the contents.

If you create an Extended DOS partition on the 80 gb hard drive with a
single logical drive for your Windows XP then it will become drive E:,
at least for Windows 98, unless you also delete the primary partition
on the second hard drive.

Then you could restore your XP image to the new D: partition and edit
the boot.ini accordingly. That should repeat should (with fingers
and toes crossed) do it.


Because you apparently have Windows XP installed and running from
drive D: this complicates any changes in the partitioning structure.

This is one of the reasons why I always use a third party partitioning
and boot manager utility for my multi-boot configurations. I always
configure it so that the selected operating system is always drive C:,
and I ensure that the other operating system partitions are always
hidden so as to avoid cross-version file contamination.

Good luck

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