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Solve : How does one remove unused W98 from secondary disk on XP system??

Answer» <html><body><p>Have 1999 Micron PC (now P-III-550), originally with W98 and 13GB <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/drive-959713" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about DRIVE">DRIVE</a> single partition:<br/><br/>- Added a 60GB drive to use as XP Pro boot disk / primary drive after partitioning in roughly thirds. XP is SP2 updated.<br/><br/>- No other OS partitions, but allowed cable swap of drives to move back to W98 during the "migration" (60GB would not be seen). Original 13GB is now second disk. <br/><br/>- Did not remove W98 then but have never used it since (too unreliable)<br/><br/>- Added different graphics card and replaced CD-RW later so W98 will not likely boot. <br/><br/>- Have a recent full back up of the second disk<br/><br/>- Down to a few meg space on all partitions<br/><br/>- Looking for ways to get rid of the W98 system files from original drive without losing any of the original app support files that might have been put under "<a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/windows-22662" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about WINDOWS">WINDOWS</a>". <br/><br/>- Prefer to not wipe 13GB then move most everything back over. <br/><br/>This isn't a classic uninstall to me, but may be it is though W98 isn't "running".<br/><br/>Any <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/ideas-1035826" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about IDEAS">IDEAS</a>? Not clear on what you want to accomplish so i'll ask a few questions...<br/><br/>Is the XP drive the main HDD?<br/>What do you mean when you say you need some system files from Win98 ?<br/>Do you switch cables to boot to the Win98 drive ?<br/>Anything on the Win98 drive has nothing to do with XP running properly so i would just format the whole drive and be done with it.<br/><br/>Personal data from there though should be backed up first...<br/><br/>There's no reason to move XP over to the 13G drive...use it for storage instead.Clarifications:<br/><br/>Per <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/bullets-767016" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about BULLETS">BULLETS</a> 1 and 3, XP is on 60 GB HD and is active system.<br/><br/>Per bullet 7 I don't need W98 system files, just files that apps may have put in the windows area (if any).<br/><br/>Per bullet 3 I do not boot to W98, and because of hardware changes I doubt that I could if tried.<br/><br/>I know XP doesn't use W98 files and I could format 13GB (bullet 8 ) but I do not know which apps will be orphaned by restore of all but W98 system file areas from full back up.<br/><br/>13GB already stated as secondary (bullet 2). As indicated in bullet 6, I am low on space and want the W98 files I no longer use to be gone.<br/><br/>Anyone else have any ideas or advice on utilities?<br/><br/>That's alot of bullets...i'm still unclear on why you are worried about losing anything from that drive...<br/>If it's a program it would need to be re-installed under XP anyways...<br/>If there is data such as documents or photos just back them up and wipe the drive...When I installed XP on the 60GB, I do NOT recall reinstalling anything that was on the 13GB drive. I just had both drives connected and installed XP on the60GB and the apps that I have on the 13GB worked just fine. <br/><br/>I installed office 2002 for students to get Word 2002 on 60GB. Apps on 13GB include AOL, MS-works, and Word 97. Each Word runs independently, each with a different license string. other apps are there too, so they must be looking at the 13GB drive for data.</p></body></html>


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