Deleting old windows 7 .

Well, it's your choice, but your computer is not a lot of good to you in its present state.

Try this method for a clean install because at some stage you're going to have to bite the bullet and do it.

Clean Install Windows 7

There's not much point in asking for advice, and then dismissing it out of hand. It just means we're wasting our time in trying to help you when the time could be spent on those that co-operate with us.

if i install a new windows in F drive then would i be able to delete C drive completely and reformat it

currently i have windows 7 in E drive and from there i operate my computer.
i have in total 3 windows . 2 in C drive and 1 in E drive

tejasvi said:

currently i have windows 7 in E drive and from there i operate my computer.
i have in total 3 windows . 2 in C drive and 1 in E drive

How do you know from which one you operate?

Go into RUN command, type in msconfig, and click the BOOT menu tab. Take a snapshot. This will allow us to see more info of what's going on.

The correct way to delete an OS is to delete it's partition, not the windows folder which will give you all kinds of problems even if you Take Ownership. But to do this in a dual boot you must first move the System Active flags to the other Windows partition.

However in your case the other Win7 on E is on a Logical partition which cannot be marked Active to receive the Win7 System boot files.

To solve this you would boot free Partition Wizard bootable CD, rightclick on the E to Modify>Convert to Primary, click OK. You will also need to repeat this on D and F since they are not contiguous as a Logical extended partition must remain. Then click Apply.

Once E is Primary, you can rightclick it to Modify>Set to Active, OK, then click on Disk # to highlight it, from Disk tab select Rebuild MBR, OK, Apply. Reboot to see if Win7 starts. If not run Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times until Win7 starts and E holds the System flag. You can then delete the old C partition and create a new partition there.

Also, if you did not boot the Win7 installer when installing to E it will not be C when booted. Plus it is more desireable to have Win7 on C in the first partition slot.

So if you want Win7 to be on C when booted as it normally is when installed correctly from boot, I would consider reinstalling after moving all data off the HD, deleting all partitions during reinstall, then creating new ones to format, install Win7 to first install partition.

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gregrocker said:

The correct way to delete an OS is to delete it's partition, not the windows folder which will give you all kinds of problems even if you Take Ownership. But to do this in a dual boot you must first move the System Active flags to the other Windows partition.

However in your case the other Win7 on E is on a Logical partition which cannot be marked Active to receive the Win7 System boot files.

To solve this you would boot free Partition Wizard bootable CD, rightclick on the E to Modify>Convert to Primary, click OK. You will also need to repeat this on D and F since they are not contiguous as a Logical extended partition must remain. Then click Apply.

Once E is Primary, you can rightclick it to Modify>Set to Active, OK, then click on Disk # to highlight it, from Disk tab select Rebuild MBR, OK, Apply. Reboot to see if Win7 starts. If not run Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times until Win7 starts and E holds the System flag. You can then delete the old C partition and create a new partition there.

Also, if you did not boot the Win7 installer when installing to E it will not be C when booted. Plus it is more desireable to have Win7 on C in the first partition slot.

So if you want Win7 to be on C when booted as it normally is when installed correctly from boot, I would consider reinstalling after moving all data off the HD, deleting all partitions during reinstall, then creating new ones to format, install Win7 to first install partition.

this seems to be right way , descriptive , can you do it for me VIA Remote assistance