I do have Norton Partition Magic 8 installed on my C dive. That is what I
used to partition the second hard drive to D,E,F,G.

As I indicated, I do have an image of My D drive. All my data(E,F& G) is
also imaged and also backed up.


The dual boot was created using the WIN XP Pro disk therefore I have the
Windows XP Boot.ini. I was going to upgrade the C drive to XP but the
testing procedure indicated some program issues. My D drive being empty, I
decided to try the dual boot option with thew XP pro disk. I need the XP
partition to run some financial programs that do not run well with Win 98SE.

Now a final question.

Can I delete the D partition and recreate the partition as a logical
partition then split the C drive and restore my D image to the new partition
on the first hard drive there by having the first hard drive being C,D and
then the drive letters on the second hard drive would change to E,F,G and H.

or

The other option I was thinking of was to delete all the partitions of the
second hard drive and remove(disconnect the IDE cable) it from the PC then
split the partition on the first Hard Drive and have C and D and then
restore my D image to the newly created D drive. then re-attach the second
hard drive and repartition and format.

or
would either/both of the above work?

sorry to be so long winded...Thanks in advance


"Ron Martell" wrote in message
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"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

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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