Windows 7: Partition : Recover Space Used by an Older OS

Most dual or multi boot setups have an older Operating System (OS) like Windows XP in the first position on the...

Hello again lisior.



Sorry to see you had an issue though I'm at a loss at what it could be; did you have Linux installed at any other time?

First of all, thank you for this tutorial BFK. I have been reading through quite a bit of threads where you and Brink have been helping others with similar issues. I kind of just mixed and matched different advise that the two of you have given, before I found this thread. Turns out I did almost exactly what is described here, except for the "wipe" (I just deleted my first partition, which was Vista, with Partition Wizard) Turns out, I ended up with the same problem as lisior. I can boot to Windows 7, but after I log on it says "preparing your desktop", and after waiting longer than usual it brings me to a blue screen that says "Windows 7; Build 7600; This copy of Windows is not genuine" in the lower right corner. I followed prodigy's "Possible Solution" here:
Booting Problem related to Windows not genuine error
Which fixed the problem, but now my only partition, which is the Windows 7, is labeled as F: I tried to use Disk Management to change drive letter and paths, but it throws me an error about parameters. I know that it doesn't really effect anything to be labeled as F:, but I was just wandering if you had any insight as to something that I could try to get it to work correctly, labeled as C:?

Hello Chris H.




To get a letter 'not' C: you must have installed Windows 7 from within Vista and didn't boot from the Windows 7 installation disk; unfortunately there is no successful way to change the drive letter for a Windows "System" partition and if you did manage it there would be all sorts of issues following; when you installed programs/apps they were created to use the "Letter F:" and that can't be changed short of a Windows reinstall.