Oh yeah, been there, done that... but it's not as bad as jaf makes you believe.
You have the advantage that your 98 sits on a separate disk that you can pull out.
In my case I had the drives C:(98), D:(XP) and E:(shared data) on the same physical 
disk.
So, don't despair, it can be done.

First make sure that you have these files in the top directory on your XP drive:
boot.ini, ntldr, ntdetect.com 

Edit the boot.ini to look like this:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect 
/NoExecute=OptIn

Then you need a program that does drive mapping. I had that in the Pertition Magic 
set of programs, but I am sure it can be found for free somewhere (maybe someone 
else can suggest a good one...???)
You need this drive mapping program to change all registry entries that refer to 
programs that you have loaded on the drive D:, which will be drive C: soon.
Run this in XP while it is still drive D: and re-map everything to drive C:. Make 
sure that no other programs are running when you do this...

Now shut down, pull out the old drive C:, connect the newer drive as master on the 
first chain, and then try to start the system up.
If it fails to start, then you may have to use the repair options on the XP-CD and 
run fixmbr and fixboot.

That should be all. Good luck.

Quasimodo









On Friday, June 20, 2008 at 10:16 am, Ed Meadows wrote:

>Hello,

>

>I currently have a dual-boot configuration (98 and XP).  98 is on the C: drive and 

>XP is an UPGRADE  install and resides on the D: drive (it is dependent upon the 
C: 

>drive currently since it is an UPGRADE). 

>

>I want to remove the C: drive completely and have everything boot from D:.  The 
C: 

>drive is old and unreliable and I want to just have one drive, my newer D: drive.

>

>Is this possible?  How would I go about accomplishing this?   

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