OS problems

[krisjr]

hi,
well my fren has just loaded XP.he had 98SE before.its ter in his c drive and xp is in d drive.now what happens is, 98SE doesnt detect cd rom..but in XP,all works fine...what cud be the problem..also tel me if he wanna keep only XP as a single os,how shud he go about deleting win98 all together...


Plz hurry mates,he is in realy hurry...
tx in advance..

 

[krishnathelord]

as of deleting the 98 installatin set the xp installation default and timer at 0 that would lead to no os choice choice while booting

 

[theraven]

format partition containin win 98
or the folder of win 98 if its on the same drive as xp
then edit boot.ini in ur c:\
and remove the line for win 98
simple

[edit]
oops my bad
if its on a diff partition .. do not format c:\
u need the system and boot files from there

 

[krisjr]

hey its confusing man..plz be clear..if i format c drive,i will lose my boot files rt.so i do i do it...

@krishna:i dont want to keep 98 altogether..i will hav to make those changes in BIOS rt

 

[krisjr]

wat no ans still

 

[navjotjsingh]

hey its confusing man..plz be clear..if i format c drive,i will lose my boot files rt.so i do i do it...

@krishna:i dont want to keep 98 altogether..i will hav to make those changes in BIOS rt

Yes you may loose the system files. Instead format the D: drive and reinstall XP as new OS over 98.

Better still format both C and D drives and install XP as fresh OS using 98 startup floppy disk.

 

[krisjr]

doesnt hav tat floppy disk.

 

[geek_rohit]

Since you don't want Win98 then just install XP. If you don't have any imp data on your system then format both the C & D partitions and then have a clean install of WinXP. If there is some imp data then put all that in D drive and then format the C drive and then install WinXP. And for cleaning the D drive delete all the directories and files apart from your data. Also since you would have formatted the C drive you won't see an option for OS selection.