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moving to win2k for good

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by tihad1 1 view

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I have a dual up win98 on c:\ and win2k on a partition h:\ they all in drive 1, since win 2k is running fine so far; I need to move win 2k to the second drive(used as back up)and get rid of win98, I was wondering if I use partition magic pro 6.00 todo this job, is safe? and how?

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by shmaltz

Yes you should use partition magic this is the best option for this job.
Before you do it run scandisk on both partitions.

by curacao_dejavu

no , you can not move that (wiithout editing a lot in the registry and MS doesn't recommend that.(the os will still think it's on the h drive if you just move the folders)
If you don't want a clean install on the secon drive you have only 1 option.
in w2k , r-klik on mycomputer, choose properties , choose advanse , choose startup and recovery, select w2k as the default and enter 0 for the display list of the OS's you have.
Only you will know that w2k is on the h drive.
You can delete safely the windows folder and the program files folder on the c-drive (and whatever you want (except the bootfiles since the 2 os's shares those.)

Leopold

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