Moving Windows 7 to another partition

Let's see another snip of your disk management now.

I hope you're giving it at least 100GB, I'd make it no less.

magnetite said:

Don't think I can cancel it without it messing up my partition.

You can't, it will FUBAR everything.

Since this is my secondary system, all I use on there is a media server and that's about it. I don't really have anything else on my system drive (aside from those backup files). So 35 GB should be enough for a few programs plus my Windows install.

Edit:

Okay, Windows is all set up. Just need to find a way to delete the other Windows 7 install without losing the data. Thanks guys.

35GBs is definitely enough for the system plus a good selection of programs. I never exceeded 20GBs with the data on a seperate partition.
As far as your old system partition goes, make first sure that it is no more marked as an active partition. Then you can delete the system files - or just leave them if you have the room. The data files you can include into the libraries of the new OS partition. Just right click on the folders (from the new OS) and "Include into Library".

magnetite said:

Since this is my secondary system, all I use on there is a media server and that's about it. I don't really have anything else on my system drive (aside from those backup files). So 35 GB should be enough for a few programs plus my Windows install.

Edit:

Okay, Windows is all set up. Just need to find a way to delete the other Windows 7 install without losing the data. Thanks guys.

Hello again.



I never say this "Edit".

Please post one more snip of disk management for a look to see how it is now.

Try to set it inactive with Partition Wizard ( BEST FREE Partition Manager Software for Windows supports all 32-bit & 64 bit Windows No-server OS. ). It is under the Partition tab > Modify.