New
#1
remove XP bootable partition
I have a question on deleting my old XP bootable partition. I have this arrangement on one drive:
Primary Logical Primary
XP-SP3....... data........ Win-7 64bit
D: ................ E: .............. C:
The data partition is set up as drive E: and contains multiple files, including "my documents".
XP was on the system 1st, then Win 7 was added.
Both OS’s are bootable and show up and system startup.
I followed the procedure below and when I re-booted Win7 it showed my login background wallpaper and userids, but when I logged in to any of them, I got an empty (light-blue) background, no "start" button or task bar and a message in the bottom right corner saying it was not a genuine copy of Windows 7. I did a system restore from images.
My system is now back to where it was before I started.
What did I do wrong??
Procedure I followed (all partitioning done via bootable Partition Wizard):I also had to delete the E: partition to be able to move the Win7 partition to the beginning of the drive (I saved E:'s data on aother drive first).
- Deleted the data partition (after saving it elsewhere)
- Deleted the XP partition
- Moved the win7 partition to 1st position on the drive
- Marked the Win7 partition active
- Tried to run system repair from my original Win7 DVD (but it said it did not match the version of the OS I was trying to repair) so I used the system restore disk I made after saving my images (glad I am paranoid enough to have made one)
- Ran the system repair 3 times
- No luck, so restored all 3 partitions from images.
Last edited by DocDJ; 21 Apr 2011 at 18:11. Reason: cleanup formatting