Delete XP paritition from Dual boot with Vista!!?!!

ojobson · 17-11-2007, 16:43

I have spent the last two days trying to figure out how to do this:

I want to remove XP, the partition it is on, and then reclaim the space for vista. XP was installed ont he HD first, with one partition, vista was installed in a new partition.

The Partion with XP is listed under Disk Management as being: "System, Active, Primary Partition".

Vista is listed as "Boot, Page File, Crash Cump, Logical Drive".

I think I need to do something with the MBR, so that it calls on the PBR of the vista partition which should then call up bootmgr. Then I should be free to format the XP partition and then join them together.

Now just how do I go about doing this? I'm totally out of my depth tbh! If I had known it was going to be this difficult I wouldn't of done this in the first place!!

greshoff · 18-11-2007, 09:42

I had the same issue and in the end I reinstalled Vista and deleted the XP partition in the process.

ojobson · 22-11-2007, 21:24

I feared as much - oh well, Looks like I need to get all my installation cd's out yet again...! ta.

LSG501 · 22-11-2007, 21:39

a nice simple google came up with

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17-11-2007, 16:43	#1
ojobson Donkey! Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 900	Delete XP paritition from Dual boot with Vista!!?!! I have spent the last two days trying to figure out how to do this: I want to remove XP, the partition it is on, and then reclaim the space for vista. XP was installed ont he HD first, with one partition, vista was installed in a new partition. The Partion with XP is listed under Disk Management as being: "System, Active, Primary Partition". Vista is listed as "Boot, Page File, Crash Cump, Logical Drive". I think I need to do something with the MBR, so that it calls on the PBR of the vista partition which should then call up bootmgr. Then I should be free to format the XP partition and then join them together. Now just how do I go about doing this? I'm totally out of my depth tbh! If I had known it was going to be this difficult I wouldn't of done this in the first place!! __________________ D920 & Zalman CNS9500 //GA 8I945P-G, 2Gb PC2-5300 // 256MB 6800XT & Zalman VF700Cu // 2x160Gb Samsung Spinpoint (RAID-1). Sony CDRW, NEC DVD-RAM // Nexus Breeze & Seasonic S12 430W //24" WUXGA --// MBP w/ Leopard, 2.26GHz 2GB 13", oliverjobson.co.uk \| OliJ.co.uk

22-11-2007, 21:24	#3
ojobson Donkey! Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 900	I feared as much - oh well, Looks like I need to get all my installation cd's out yet again...! ta. __________________ D920 & Zalman CNS9500 //GA 8I945P-G, 2Gb PC2-5300 // 256MB 6800XT & Zalman VF700Cu // 2x160Gb Samsung Spinpoint (RAID-1). Sony CDRW, NEC DVD-RAM // Nexus Breeze & Seasonic S12 430W //24" WUXGA --// MBP w/ Leopard, 2.26GHz 2GB 13", oliverjobson.co.uk \| OliJ.co.uk

22-11-2007, 21:39	#4
LSG501 You can call me Levi Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: T.S.C. Posts: 3,285	a nice simple google came up with this and this __________________

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18-11-2007, 09:42	#2
greshoff Registered Trader Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 536	I had the same issue and in the end I reinstalled Vista and deleted the XP partition in the process.