Vista boot files

[Inkognito]

Anyone have a clue about how vista boots?
Does it have boot files on the C drive which when deleted prevents me from booting to vista on a different drive?

I currently have 2 drives in my pc.
Drive 1 is C+D drive on 2 different partitions. I have win98 on C drive and Vista on D drive.
Drive 2 is E on 1 big partition.

My problem is that i want to repartition my main disk (C+D) into 1 partition as i don't need the 2 drives anymore for multi boot.

I've just reinstalled vista on my E drive so i still have a bootable windows.
If i repartition C+D now what will happen? Will it say i have no bootable disk? Or does vista know to boot from the other disk?

lol
I don't have a CD drive connected at the moment so if i repartition this drive and i can't boot into vista i'll be proper fucked.
If the files are stored somewhere on C drive they will be lost and even if i swap the drives around so that E is the primary master i still won't be able to boot on it

Any ideas?

[TomCB]

you should be able to use diskpart to set that hdd as active.

before that though, you could try booting from that hdd in the bios boot menu
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[el_oso]

vista uses a bootloader. similar to how linux boots. if you ask me the way they have done this is proper weird. got a bootloader that then makes windows boot like old versions of windows.
from what i understand, it does sound like you can just delete the C drive where 98 is stored.
the loader loads the MBR. why windows still use MBR for partitioning baffles me. need to update and move to GPT or something. MBR is seriously outdated as hard drive <2Tb are now becoming quite common. especially with people using multiple hard drives for media servers and stuff like that. also with more and more people using multi boot and MBR only supporting 4 partitions. crap if you ask me.
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[Inkognito]

I may just leave it as it is now.
After installing vista on the other drive everything is running 10 times better than ever.
I think maybe my boot drive is on it's way out. It's gotta be nearly 10 years old now too and my pc is never off lol