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Getting rid of dual boot and fresh install of Win7
At present, I am dual-booting Win XP Home SP3 and Win 7 Pro 32-bit.
XP is in the 50GB partition in the beginning, Win 7 is in the second 100GB partition.
I had partitioned the drives when I was using XP, so that's why there's no 100MB System Reserved partition.
Because I'm getting a new motherboard, I'm pretty sure that I need to start from scratch. I'd like to install Win 7 in the 50GB partition and use the 100GB partition for data storage, doing away with the boot manager. I will most likely install XP on another hard drive at a future date and boot via hard drive selection in my BIOS boot options. After a full year of use, my Win7 install only uses 25GB of space, so 50GB is more than enough. And if I did need more room, I can use EaseUS Partition Manager at some point.
Would all I have to do is erase the data in each partition, and then install Win 7 in the 50GB partition? It surely can't be that simple!
I haven't seen any specific guidelines on how to do what I need. Would someone be so kind as to point me where I need to go? I'd appreciate it.