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xp and win7 partitions on same drive
Hi all, I should have found this forum before I did what I did??? but here I am because of what I did.....
I have been running xp pro on drv c: and win7 pro on drv x: (same hard drive) quite happily for a while now. It was all going great with a dual boot option but I decided now to go fully with Win7 - I love it! - and dump XP. Stupidly? I booted into win7 and deleted the c: partition with the intention of using easus to clone the win7 partition into the unallocated vacated space on c: what followed was and still is a nightmare for me which I still have not solved. So I borrowed a laptop and searched arouond and found this forum.
Well instead of cloning the partition - I went and re-booted the system thinking that Win7 would be the default - of course you all know that this could not happen - we are always wiser after the event !!
So now I am stuck with Win7 still on a 26 gig partition on my system Hard drive with an unallocated 57 gig partition that used to be c: and a third partition which was untouched by all this with some data files. How do I know? I used the Ultimate boot cd so that I could peek into the hard drive. But I cant seem to find an answer with this cd.
How now do I get to boot from Win7 - I dont want to format and re install again as I have an awful lot of stuff on Win7 already.
Is there some brilliant answer to all of this please?? Help I need my computer back.........