Remove XP from dual boot

Looking at your Disk Management map, your Win7 is indeed way over to the right side. You can leave it this way if you are satisfied with performance, however I prefer having the OS in the first partition closer to where the laser starts.

What I would do is move the F:Editing Stuff data into your Data partition, then boot into Partition Wizard disk and delete the D:XP partition, the empty E:Programs partition, and the F:Editing Stuff partition you have now vacated.

Then Copy your Win7 partition into the unallocated space from deleted D,E,F partitions which puts it in the first partition. After it is successfully copied into the unallocated space from the D,E,F partitions, delete the unneeded Win7 partition on the far right of the drive.

Then boot into your Win7 installer repair console and run Startup Repair 3 times to recover the boot if necessary.

Now you can use your Win7 Disk Management to change your partitioning as desired.

It is strongly suggested before doing such copying operations that you back up ALL of your files to an external drive or disk. Use Windows 7 Backup imaging to also save an image of your HDD which can be easily reimaged if anything fails.

And since you are backing the files up anyway in the Data partition, you also then have the flexibiility to use Partition Wizard to delete all of your data partitions and simply move the sole remaining Win7 partition over into the deleted data partitions space, by right clicking on it and choosing Resize/Move. Then boot into the Win7 installer and run Startup REpair 3 times if necessary. Now you can use Disk Management to create and populate your partitions as you please.

How do you want your HD to look when your all finished?

From reading through the thread, I'll take a guess.

Delete partitions D:\XP Pro and E:\XP Programs

Then,
Partition C:/Win7 first on the disk. Same size?
F:/Editing Stuff second. Same size?
G:/Data Backup last. 187GB + 44GB (from D and E partitions)= 231GB

Are your current backups on this HD in the G partition?
If you can, it's best to have your entire HD backed up to an external HD.
Moving all the partitions around will probably go smoothly, but it's best to be prepared for the worst.

First I would recommend to keep a backup of your Win7 OS on the external HD. If your OS HD fails you won't have a backup.

Do you have a backup for Win7 C:/ and Editing Stuff F:/ in the Data Backup G:/ now?

Run a new backup of Win7 C:/ to your external HD.
Copy or backup Editing Stuff F:/ to your external HD.

If you already had backups saved in G:/ and make another as mentioned above, then you'll have two backups of each and double safe.

Step one:
Delete partitions D:\XP Pro, E:\XP Programs and F:/Editing Stuff this will give you enough space to move Win7 C:/ to the front of the disk.

Step two:
Copy Win7 C:/ to the front of the disk in the unallocated space, make it 100GB if thats what you want it to be.
Delete the old Win7 C:/ at the back of the HD.

Test your Win7 OS, if it won't boot then run startup repair from your installation DVD three times to re-build your boot manager. Acronis should take care of this when you copy the OS partition to the front of the HD.

Step three:
Make a new partition with the 130GB unallocated space (use all the space) after the new Win7 C:/ partition. Copy or restore your F:/Editing Stuff there.

You will be left with 100GB unallocated space at the end (right) of the Data Backup G:/ you can extend G:/ into that space, will be the easiest, or move it and make F:/ bigger.

Let us know how it goes.

Your welcome,

Glad the partitions are moved where you want them.

All looks good. Everything in it's optimum position.

Let us know if you have other questions.