That is not going to work.

I would say to image drive C: and save the image to later restore to a new
drive, but the fact that you are already hearing noises means that damage
may have already been done. It is of no value to image a drive that is not
known to be in a 100% reliable state. Yours isn't.

Plan to replace the drive and to reinstall the operating system that is
presently on the drive.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)



"hw-engineer" <hw-engineer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Just upgraded using the clean install option. XP is on Drive C and Vista
> is
> on a new Drive F. I'd like to keep the dual boot for awhile but the C
> drive
> is making noises like it is going to fail someday. If I try to remove it
> the
> system will not boot. Here's what I'd like. Get the drives to swap drive
> letters, and have the system boot when I remove the old drive C.
>
> Also, how do I get the time to select which operating system to boot time
> down from 25 seconds to, say, 5 seconds?