Removing Whistler safely from Dual Boot configuration
Greetings, I have two hard drives, each hard drive is seperated into 2 partitions, which makes 4 partitions total. For now I'll just number them 1-4. Partition 1 is the boot partition, it doesn't have any system files on it, only the boot.
Greetings,
I have two hard drives, each hard drive is seperated into 2 partitions, which makes 4 partitions total. For now I'll just number them 1-4. Partition 1 is the boot partition, it doesn't have any system files on it, only the boot.ini files along with all the other files necessary for booting the computer. Partition 2 has Whistler on it, and partition 3 has Win2K on it. Partition 4 is empty and is only for file storage.
What I want to accomplish is to safely remove Whistler off of partition 2 in a way that will keep the boot information clean. I'm afraid if I just format the partition that Whislter resides on, Whistler will still show up as a bootup option when I start up the computer. I know I could just go into the boot.ini file and remove the Whistler line, but I'm afraid of other unseen changes residing in ntldr or some other place I don't know of.
If anyone has any advice, or things I should know before proceeding, I'd be very grateful to hear them.
[ December 29, 2000: Message edited by: ZedAgent ]
I have two hard drives, each hard drive is seperated into 2 partitions, which makes 4 partitions total. For now I'll just number them 1-4. Partition 1 is the boot partition, it doesn't have any system files on it, only the boot.ini files along with all the other files necessary for booting the computer. Partition 2 has Whistler on it, and partition 3 has Win2K on it. Partition 4 is empty and is only for file storage.
What I want to accomplish is to safely remove Whistler off of partition 2 in a way that will keep the boot information clean. I'm afraid if I just format the partition that Whislter resides on, Whistler will still show up as a bootup option when I start up the computer. I know I could just go into the boot.ini file and remove the Whistler line, but I'm afraid of other unseen changes residing in ntldr or some other place I don't know of.
If anyone has any advice, or things I should know before proceeding, I'd be very grateful to hear them.
[ December 29, 2000: Message edited by: ZedAgent ]
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couldn't you just format the partition holding whistler, then unhide the boot.ini file and edit that so that it doesn't show up anymore? Or you could just format the whistler partition, then go back into Windows 2000 and uncheck that "Show list of operating systems". Then it'll be back to normal. I think it's the easiest way.
