I have 4 partitions on my notebook.
C: is Win7 32-bit
D: is Vista 32-bit
E: is Win7 64-bit
F: is Data.
I now want to get rid of the Vista partition and give its sectors to the Win7 64-bit.
I tried shrinking the Vista partiton, but the extend option is greyed out for WIn7 64-bit.
How do I remove Vista and have it deleted from the boot manager setup?
Then how do I extend the Win7 64-bit into the, now empty, Vista partition?
Hi dougham, welcome to the Seven Forums.
Go to the Tutorials section of the forum; there might be sometime there that can help you with your problem. Also you might take a look at programs like Partition Magic, or some other partitioning program to help you with your situation. Also be careful not to erase you MBR. Good Luck.
I can help you if you post a screenshot of disk management. It's quite easy to do but I need to know which is your system partition with boot files. If D: is system, we need to move the boot files to another location first. Simple also.
Also, are you booting to the different operating systems with a boot choice screen or by changing bios default boot device?
What backup strategy do you have in place ? ?
Re-sizing partitions does not always go as planned...
As Lee and Tews said, there are some good tutorilas on this:
Partition or Volume - Extend
and
Partition or Volume - Create New
And, as Patio said, make SURE you have backed up any data you want on ALL the partitons. I did a "simple" resize on an XP machine and lost the XP partition. Of course, since it was such a simple operation, I hadn't backed up the XP stuff. Not a fun day.
Last edited by TheSchaft; 25 Oct 2009 at 08:51. Reason: Tews beat me to the link
Layout is as I wrote in initial post. C then D then E then F.
I shrank D then used partition wizard, as suggested by responder, to extend E back into the space released.
I now want to delete the Vista partition, D:.
I don't know how to tell bootmgr that D: has gone. Obviously the drive letters may change too.
VistaBootPro shows Entry 1 - Win 7 on C, Entry 2 - Win 7 64-bit on E:, Entry 3
- Vista on D:.
Is there a way to boot into Vista and tell it to remove itself, so that it edits bcd correctly?
As for backup ALL my data is on F:, is backed up manually every day, but also has a scheduled task that backs up at 2am. Backup is to an external disk. I have tested backup completely by doing a full restore when I changed 250GB drive to 500GB.
Please post the screenshot so we are sure of your setup. As I said, if Vista partition contains boot files, we will have to throw some commands at Windows. And you will have to set a different partition as active.
Last edited by torrentg; 26 Oct 2009 at 04:32.
Sorry for the delay.
Here is the Disk Managment screen shot.
C = Win 7
D = Vista
E = Win7 64-bit
F = Data.
I'd like to delete the Vista partition (D:) and remove it from the startup boot.
I would also like to keep the drives as C, E and F, as all my links to my data on F: are built into C: and E:. However I can fix that manually myself.
Regards
Doug
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