Re: [Thinkpad] Clear 2nd XP from system?

On 1/11/2007 9:04 AM, RMB wrote:
> I assume you have it on a separate partition. You can remove the partition
> using FDisk if you are very experienced with it. Otherwise, I would
> recommend Acronis, Paragon, System Commander, or Partition Magic 8 or
> higher.
>
> You may have to then insert the Windows Disc and run it in repair mode to
> change its expectation of finding Windows 2K.
>
> On 1/11/07, Glen Tophen <tophen@rogers.com> wrote:
>
>> Can anyone tell me how to eliminate W2k from my laptop while keeping the
>> XP Pro install? I hopefully can do this without a reformat.Thanks
>>
>
>
>
This should go w/o saying and you probably know this, but I'm one of
those folks who thinks you never advise someone about how to mess with
their partitions without warnings.

So: If you have the ability, do a byte for byte image of the entire disk
first so you can restore the drive in anything goes badly. As an
alternate, and at the very least, back up ALL your critical data before
you start. Programs can be reinstalled, pictures of grandma, your
private encryption keys, your novel, etc cannot.

Also, in addition to the commercial partition tools, (which can delete
partitions, resize clone, etc.) you can also download and burn a
bootdisk for "gparted" from sourceforge (I think, google is your
friend). It is the "Gnome partition editor" It will boot to a linux
subset and can do what you need. I used it to partition my drive for my
R40 and it worked fine. (Had to pay for HDClone to do the clone,
because Gparted does not seem to have an emergency mode for when the
source disk has bad sectors, but that's another story).

Patton
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Received on Thu Jan 11 13:49:54 2007