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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (6180)	2/10/1999 10:32:00 AM
From: Spots	Respond to of 14778

>>What if I want to tinker with the existing NT/Win95 combo on the primary? How do I uninstall Win95. Can I just delete the Win95 directory and then modify the NT boot file? Yes, but ... Essentially that's just what you would do. In fact, you can leave the nt boot.ini intact if you want to; it just won't work if you select the Microsoft Windows entry. (Side note: NT has saved the partition boot record which used to boot Win 95 in the bootsect.dos. When you select the Windows entry at bootup, it executes the old DOS/Win95 boot sector, just like the bios would do if it were actually the partition boot sector. Simple, no? That's what all boot managers do, one way or another.) BUT be careful of application stuff for Win 95 in other places, such as Program Files and the root directory. By and large these hurt nothing, but they take up space. You have no use for the Win95 swap file, for example. So to get rid of W95 for good, you have to delete things besides just the Win95 directory itself. Assuming it's not the same as the NT directory <gg>. Here are the files in my NT-Only root directory, FYI: boot.ini Ntdetect.com ntldr pagefile.sys (the NT swap file) Also NT put in the following zero-length files, I suppose for its own comfort: autoexec.bat config.sys io.sys msdos.sys Nothing in these files, though. I suspect you could delete 'em. Maybe I will and see what happens. For sure I can't boot DOS on this NTFS partition <gg>. The NT command prompt (pseudo DOS prompt) might look at autoexec.bat, but I doubt it.