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

ojobson · 17-11-2007, 15:43

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, 08:42

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

ojobson · 22-11-2007, 20:24

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, 20:39

a nice simple google came up with

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17-11-2007, 15:43	#1
ojobson Donkey! Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 943	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!! __________________ Desktop: D920 & GA 8I945P-G \| 2Gb PC2-5300 \| 256MB 6800XT \| 1 x 320GB system & 2x500Gb Spinpoint's (RAID-1) NEC DVD-RAM \| Seasonic S12 430W \| 24" WUXGA \\\|// Macbook Pro 13": 2009 5,5 \| OSX SL \| 2.26GHz 4GB \| 320GB \\\|// Server: Intel Atom 330 Little Falls \| OSX SL \| 2x2TB F3 Spinpoint Web & Graphic Design \| Blog of thoughts \| On the internet, no one knows you are a Donkey.

22-11-2007, 20:24	#3
ojobson Donkey! Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 943	I feared as much - oh well, Looks like I need to get all my installation cd's out yet again...! ta. __________________ Desktop: D920 & GA 8I945P-G \| 2Gb PC2-5300 \| 256MB 6800XT \| 1 x 320GB system & 2x500Gb Spinpoint's (RAID-1) NEC DVD-RAM \| Seasonic S12 430W \| 24" WUXGA \\\|// Macbook Pro 13": 2009 5,5 \| OSX SL \| 2.26GHz 4GB \| 320GB \\\|// Server: Intel Atom 330 Little Falls \| OSX SL \| 2x2TB F3 Spinpoint Web & Graphic Design \| Blog of thoughts \| On the internet, no one knows you are a Donkey.

22-11-2007, 20:39	#4
LSG501 You can call me Levi Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: T.S.C. Posts: 3,309	a nice simple google came up with this and this __________________

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18-11-2007, 08:42	#2
greshoff Registered Trader Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 547	I had the same issue and in the end I reinstalled Vista and deleted the XP partition in the process.