Warning! when deleting Factory image drive

DaRonRon said:

Im not too sure, but i think its because the D drive contains boot data needed to boot the laptop. You must first set drive C as active, then you can delete Vista. Again im not sure if im 100% right..

Barman58 said:

As the c: drive is the active drive I think the warning may well be due to the use of a non standard format for the recovery partition - this is not unusual, and can cause confusion for disk utilities.

I assume you have the win7 install DVD to hand - If so I would proceed with the deletion , as if boot files are on the recovery partition (very unlikely) you can perform a start-up repair quite simply by booting the DVD

chev65 said:

I believe that DaRon is correct. You may or may not ruin your MBR "master boot record" by delating the Vista partition but you can usually repair the Widows 7 MBR by running a "start up repair" from the Windows 7 CD. You may need to run the repair a few times before it works.

You can delate the drive from the disk properties window but your Windows 7 may become unbootable until you run the START UP REPAIR from the Windows 7 CD.

UnderBoac said:

Moving/recreating the MBR to the Windows 7 partition in advance could be wise

Brink said:

Hello Seven, and welcome to Seven Forums.

You might consider creating a set of HP Vista Recovery Discs in case you ever decide to reinstall Vista on that computer again. Once you delete the recovery partition it's gone with no chance of creating them.

Using HP Backup and Recovery Manager in Vista - HP Customer Care (United States - English)

You should be able to click on Yes to proceed to delete the recovery partition without any problems though. :)

I don't want to re-install Vista, so I'm going to delete it, fingers crossed here goes.
Ps If I don't post back today, then you'll know that I've FAILED!

Success!
I deleted it, and extended my C; drive.
The thing is I didn't get any 'warning' messages. Strange.

Thanks for most of the replies. lol

Brink said:

I'm happy to hear that all went well. :)

Thanks!
Any idea why I didn't get that warning message?

Dang I was too late. I have a HP Pavillion as well.

I just formatted it and it didnt cause any problems.