I have a dual boot PC, Windows ME on one HDD and XP on another,but for some reason the windows XP setup is now one of the options, and I 'd like to get rid of it without messing up the bootlog. The following is my boot file, anyone know how to edit it to get rid of the "XP setup" option without messing up everything else.
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What I have done:
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2)Removing all connected Componets and rebooted, same problem.
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I have a system which was initially set up a while ago as a dual boot, Win98SE/Win2K. I had a need for the Win98SE side of things then, but now that has gone but the Win98SE partition is the boot of course.I want to be able to do away with the Win98SE partition completely and ideally add the space to the Win2K one, maybe leave it as a clean NTFS partition if that makes things easier. This would mean that I would end up with a drive with a single boot partition holding Win2K. This of course is not a trivial process as the drive letter of the boot partition will need to change. (I do want that drive letter change incidentally).
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