"gak27" wrote:
| Greetings all!
|
| Awhile back I posted a question about changing my W2K install.  Currently
I
| have it installed as a dual-boot w/ Win98 and (for various reasons that I
| have no control over) I was asked to find out how to change this to an
| 'upgrade' install.  Through the kind help of several board members, DP in
| particular, I was given the following and wanted to confirm whether this
will
| work correctly:
|
| >You can boot with your Win98 startup disk and issue the command
| >sys C:
| >this will rewrite the win9x boot sector, then you can delete these files
| >boot.ini, ntldr, ntdetect.com, bootsect.dos, pagefile.sys and possibly
| >ntbootdd.sys from the root of the System partition C:\., then you can
delete
| >the Windows 2000 boot partition or \winnt directory (whichever the case)
| >
| >Then *do* backup everything you can't afford to lose since the upgrade
| >process might leave you with nothing.
| >
| >You can them start win98 normally and begin the upgrade process.
|
| The reason I ask is that some similar-in-topic posts have stated not to
| delete the files mentioned above and I really don't want to mess this up.
| Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
|
| Greg

"Dave Patrick" wrote:

> Yes, confirmed. Keep in mind backups are always required for anything you
> can't afford to lose no matter the task.
>
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> "gak27" wrote:
> | Greetings all!
> |
> | Awhile back I posted a question about changing my W2K install.  Currently
> I
> | have it installed as a dual-boot w/ Win98 and (for various reasons that I
> | have no control over) I was asked to find out how to change this to an
> | 'upgrade' install.  Through the kind help of several board members, DP in
> | particular, I was given the following and wanted to confirm whether this
> will
> | work correctly:
> |
> | >You can boot with your Win98 startup disk and issue the command
> | >sys C:
> | >this will rewrite the win9x boot sector, then you can delete these files
> | >boot.ini, ntldr, ntdetect.com, bootsect.dos, pagefile.sys and possibly
> | >ntbootdd.sys from the root of the System partition C:\., then you can
> delete
> | >the Windows 2000 boot partition or \winnt directory (whichever the case)
> | >
> | >Then *do* backup everything you can't afford to lose since the upgrade
> | >process might leave you with nothing.
> | >
> | >You can them start win98 normally and begin the upgrade process.
> |
> | The reason I ask is that some similar-in-topic posts have stated not to
> | delete the files mentioned above and I really don't want to mess this up.
> | Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
> |
> | Greg
>
>
>