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You Google windows 7 boot sequence and you will find a lot of interesting articles that will explain that. It took me 52 years - 35 years as a professional programmer - to learn this stuff - so don't expect to know it all tomorrow.
OK. Thanks to your patience I succeeded in having only one partition. I used Easy BCD software to move the bootmgr to my c drive partition and the I used Partition Wizard software to extend my c drive partition to the full 119GB SSD drive. Didn't have to burn anything.
Thanks again for your patience and information.
Brent
Very good. You apparently took some shortcuts. That's OK as long as nothing happens - and you were lucky. But you missed a few opportunities to learn some more.
It was not to make things complicated but to make things safe. If Partition Wizard would have screwed up your C partition, you would have sceemed and blamed me for poor guidance. Now that you took your own chances, you could have only blamed yourself. I have learned these lessons the hard way.
Anyhow, I highly recommend you make weekly images. You will be glad you did when your OS got screwed up due to a virus, an update or a false manipulation. Recovering from an image is a matter of 20 minutes - reinstalling from an old recovery disc takes days. And don't rely on System Restore - it does not always work.
At worst, you would have a 31GB partition. The rest would be unallocated space which you can easily add to C via Disk Management.
But that image will do you little good in a year from now. That's why I suggest to make an image on a regular schedule.
To give you an update on my situation, after I finished with a c drive partition on my SSD with all the space I expected I attempted to clone the SSD to a backup HDD and at the point of transfer my computer would shut down.
I then installed my Win 7, using the recovery disks, on the original 500 GB HDD that came with my computer. I have it set up exactly like I want it with all my added software installed.
I quite enjoyed the experience. The HDD now has a 1.46 GB Recovery Partition and the rest is on the C Partition.
If, after a few more days of using the new HDD setup, I'll clone it back to my 124 GB SSD using EaseToDo software.
I'll keep the 500 GB HDD as a backup to my 124 GB SSD. I can always clone back.
Wish me luck. Thanks again for the experience and knowledge I've gained.
Brent