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advice removing XP on old HDD in dual boot setup with Win7 on new HDD
Situation is similar to what happened to member GeeDee: installed Win 7 on system with new HDD while XP was resident on old HDD creating a dual-boot config with systems on both drives. Everything works right now but I'd like to remove XP and clean old HDD.
Details:
Originally, C HDD (WD 1 TB) with XP was 90% full and six years old.
Added new HDD (became D) same size to replace old.
Added external HDD (3 TB, XP only recognized 750 GB) for Easy Transfer.
During 7 install noticed new D HDD became C (?!) and dual-boot was set-up.
Next time system restarted got error 'no disc found', and after visiting Bios changed drive order making new HDD with 7 first to boot and everything worked. It was a lucky accident for in truth did not know what I was doing!
Currently this is what Disk Mgmt shows:
D with XP is disk 0 and is shown as 'System, Active, Primary Partition'
C with 7 is disk 2 with 'Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition'
F is disk 1, an external 3TB that I need to re-partition once everything is fixed.
No 100 MB MBR is shown, but D (XP) has a 9 MB unallocated section on it?
First thoughts after reading through some threads here was simply to make C 'active', remove this status from D, perhaps change the drive order in Disk Mgmt and Bios, and all would be well (lol).
While everything works now would rather remove XP and old HDD in fear it is too old and close to failure.
Hope this is an easy fix