I have a HD with Win 98 OS. I installed a 2nd HD as a slave and coppied some programs over to the 1st HD by dragging/dropping. I then removed the 2nd HD so now I only have 1 drive. The second HD that I removed contained Win 98SE which I aso coppied over to the 1s drive. Although I have only 1 HD installed, My Computer shows 2 drive letters. I assume what happened is this process created a second partition on the installed drive. Since I now have both Win 98 and Win 98SE on the drive, how can I eliminate 98 and retain 98SE or at least make 98SE the bootup OS ?
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1 HD, 2 operating systems, change bootup?
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Drag and drop can't move partitions like that. Suspect that you have artifacts left over from the 2nd drive.
You don't want to do what you propose. You'll be missing lots of stuff you'll need to run comfortably. You would be better off biting the bullet and making a clean install of SE.
Ed Fair
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You don't want to do what you propose. You'll be missing lots of stuff you'll need to run comfortably. You would be better off biting the bullet and making a clean install of SE.
Ed Fair
Any advice I give is my best judgement based on my interpretation of the facts you supply. Help increase my knowledge by providing some feedback, good or bad, on any advice I have given.
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pintail - have you given us all the facts? If you just dragged and dropped folders from Program Files on disk 2 to Program Files on disk 1, that's all it would do - copy those folders. Said programs would only run from o/s on disk 1 if they needed no registry entries/system files or if those already exist for them on disk 1.
You also say 'The second HD that I removed contained Win 98SE which I aso coppied over to the 1s drive'.
How did you do this?
What happens if you try to access this 'second' drive in explorer?
You also say 'The second HD that I removed contained Win 98SE which I aso coppied over to the 1s drive'.
How did you do this?
What happens if you try to access this 'second' drive in explorer?
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I can see all of the files in the various folders that I drug over for the various programs and can access and run them in Windows.(ie I drug a file-splitting program over and can successfully run it). I am not on that machine now (it is at home) but I recall that Win 98 had over 150 or so seperate files while I see the same plus some additional files in Win 98SE folder. The whole 9 yards appears to be there. SE in that "partition" has not been setup to recognize the hardware on that machine so I dont know what would happen if I were to remove 98 leaving only SE on the drive. Just interested in your thoughts, always looking for an easier way! Thanks for your comments.
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