About to delete volume. Says it's system but win7 on other boot drive.

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  1. Posts : 5
    Windows XP / Windows 7
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    About to delete volume. Says it's system but win7 on other boot drive.


    Ok so i had windows xp on the c:/ drive. I then installed windows 7 on it's own drive. Now i am thinking of deleting the c:/ volume since it has no use anymore. My windows 7 volume is now a boot volume and my c:/ drive still says system. I deleted all the contents possible inside of it even system 32 and nothing bad happened but i have to override in the cmd to delete it sense it is a system drive. Will this effect my windows 7 booting? Thanks.

    it also says override cause drive is in use....
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  2. Posts : 22,814
    W 7 64-bit Ultimate
       #2

    Hello Dylanpieper, welcome to Seven Forums!



    When you use the term "drive" do you mean a Hard Disk Drive (HDD) or a partition on a HDD?
    Do you have 1 or 2 HDDs in the PC?


    Partition Wizard : Use the Bootable CD











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  3. Posts : 5
    Windows XP / Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #3

    a partition of course ^.^ all of the volumes on the same HDD though.


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  4. Posts : 22,814
    W 7 64-bit Ultimate
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    Then will you post a snip / screenshot of disk management so we can see what you have; have a look at the tutorial at the link bellow and post a shot of the whole disk management; in the start menu right click computer, manage, at the left pane click disk management.


    How to Post a Screenshot in Seven Forums
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  5. Posts : 5
    Windows XP / Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Ok, just a better explanation:

    I want to delete my old C:/ drive becasue i now have a new boot drive N:/ for Windows 7.

    All i want to know if it is safe, it says it's a system drive and says "in use" although my boot (main) partition is N:/.

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  6. Posts : 22,814
    W 7 64-bit Ultimate
       #6

    Bare Foot Kid said:
    Then will you post a snip / screenshot of disk management so we can see what you have; have a look at the tutorial at the link bellow and post a shot of the whole disk management; in the start menu right click computer, manage, at the left pane click disk management.


    How to Post a Screenshot in Seven Forums


    This would help.
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  7. Posts : 5
    Windows XP / Windows 7
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  8. Posts : 22,814
    W 7 64-bit Ultimate
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    Windows can't boot from a logical partition, or so I've been told as I've never tried it myself.
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  9. Posts : 11,408
    ME/XP/Vista/Win7
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    Your boot files are on Win XP partition.
    If you delete that partition Win 7 will NOT BOOT.
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  10. Posts : 22,814
    W 7 64-bit Ultimate
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    Bare Foot Kid said:
    Windows can't boot from a logical partition, or so I've been told as I've never tried it myself.
    theog said:
    Your boot files are on Win XP partition.
    If you delete that partition Win 7 will NOT BOOT.


    Thanks theog, I should have been more specific.

    What I believe is, even if the boot files are moved/copied to the Windows 7 partition it will not boot from a logical partition
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