Windows 7 - Getting rid of Vista

Hello All

I have Vista (on a seperate hard drive) and Windows 7 (also on a seperate hard drive).
I have used msconfig to boot only into 7 and do not need the Vista operating system anymore (I have the disk so if I ever needed it again I can reinstall clean) Vista was the first operating system I installed and 7 the second.
In disk management 7 is the boot, pagefile, crash dump primary partition
Vista is system, active, primary.
It will not allow me to delete the volume which is my objective
How do I get rid of Vista Please?

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barney

By making your Windows 7 drive the primary, you can then make the other physical drive logical so, for example, it can be a simple storage drive. Just format it then.

You could use a third party partitioning program to delete the Vista partition and merge them and make one. Is that what you are asking? If I understand you this will work.

Paragon is good
Easus is also good (and free)

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Your Vista drive contains the boot files for your pc. Move them to your 7 drive. There are tutuorials for this and if you can't find them, post back.

Then set bios to boot from the 7 drive instead. Then you could format the Vista drive. Also, you should remove Vista from the boot procedure. I think you can do that in msconfig (from the search box) as I've seen others say. I personally use EasyBCD for this type of thing.

Wow this is quick! I want to wipe out the vista partition which will then give me a clean hard drive to partition for backup and storage I cannot use disk management to change to a logical drive it does not have thet option available.
If I use third party software and reformat the vista drive will it affect the boot of 7.
7 is on disk 0 and vista disk 1?

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barney

Yes. You would not be able to boot if you don't follow my advice above.

Get your system setup stable booting off the 7 drive, then worry about formatting the Vista one.

Torrentg is right, don't format if you have ONE physical drive, I misunderstood you to mean that you had TWO physical drives, not one drive with two partitions.

Hello torrentg I have already used msconfig and deleted the vista boot option. my system boots straight into 7.
I cannot find the tutorial you mention could you point me in that direction please?
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barney

The operating systems are on 2 Drives vista on disk 1 and 7 on disk 0
vista has no boot option

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barney

+1....I misunderstood you as well. Good luck.