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deleting partition without messing up boot
hi i recently installed windows 7 ultimate on my old dell i did a clean install from my hdd i formated the hdd and made a small partition at the end and copyed the setup files to it and booted from that. The install went fine i now have two partitions one with the setup disk and the other with the os so i tried to delete the partition with the disk but when i go into disk management i see that that partition is set as the active one so i tried setting the other as active and deleting the smaller one but i got a warning that windows was using it so i tried deleting it anyway but was unable to boot after a restart. So i had to start again and i am now back to the same setup is there anyway to delete the partition without messing up windows.