Getting rid of Windows 98 is fairly simple. Boot to your XP
installation and remove the Windows 98 folder then edit the boot.ini
file accordingly. To edit the boot.ini file click on Start>Run and
enter the msconfig command. In msconfig click on the BOOT.INI tab and
check all boot paths then remove the invalid paths.

I don't know how you setup your dual boot, did you use Acronis and give
each operating system its own system partition? Or did you do this the
Microsoft way, did you install Windows 98 then Windows XP as per
Microsoft instruction?

Depending on the answers to the above questions, if you are sure that
there is nothing that you want to keep on the Windows 98 drive/partition
you can delete everything on the Windows 98 partition EXCEPT (some of)
the files in the root directory. To be safe leave the files in the C:\
root intact. Regardless of how you set up the multi-boot all the files
on the Windows 98 partition except those in the root are safe to delete.
If you dual installed using the Microsoft method you will not be able
to merge the 2 partitions, the Windows 98 partition is the System
Partition for both operating systems and it must remain, but you will be
able to slide some of the free space to the XP partition. You can just
delete the Windows 98 stuff and use the partition as it is for data storage.

John

Bob wrote:

> My set-up at present is a dual boot system with win 98 on one partition
> and win xp on another. On boot up I am offered the choice by winxp boot
> manager to start either system.
> This has been working fine until recently. It appears that something in
> win98 system has become corrupted and it does not work very well. My
> idea would be to delete win98 altogether and just add the space to the
> partition that contains winxp or get rid of the second partition. I
> don't really need win98 any more, I would be quite satisfied with just
> winxp.
> I should add that I have Acronis Partition Expert installed in win98. I
> have been uninstalling programs from win98 as I get them up and running
> on winxp and transferring the space to the winxp partition
> Is what I am thinking feasible or am I likely to muck up my winxp
> installation. And what will happen to the winxp boot manager?
>
> Any advice would be most appreciated.
>
> Bob