Turn off Win7/XP Dual Boot

Hello,

I have a created a system using Windows 7 64-bit and Windows XP Professional. My C Drive is the Win 7 while the D Drive is the old Windows XP. I am ready to abandon Windows XP and go with Windows 7 only. My C drive is a SATA drive while my D Drive is an old PATA drive. I wish to disable Windows XP and format the D Drive.

In Disk Management, My Windows 7 Disk is Disk 2/Drive C: with Boot, Page File, Crash Dump and Primary Partition.
My Windows XP Disk is listed as DISK 0/Drive D with System, Active and Primary Partition

Since the boot info is on the Windows 7, could I just take the D Drive out of the system without any problems?
Is there a way to tell the boot to ignore the D Drive as a drive with an operating system on it before I remove the D Drive?

Thanks,
Babylon5fan

That will work - it's how I used to explain it to people on Vista forums in days gone by.

Pretty long winded - there is a much quicker, easier way.

D/l this sisparV5.zip ( as usual rt click it >properties>unblock>apply>ok , then rt click the .zip file and select Extract).

Rt click and RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR on sispar.cmd.

It only takes a few seconds. Then you can Reboot into 7 - go to Disk Management , delete/ format/whatever you want with the XP partition.

It appears that you gave me the answer I needed. I am happily formatting that former system drive right now!! :)

Hi babylon5fan,

Thanks for letting us know.

Glad you got it sorted out out.

Have fun.

Dear SIW2,

Just wanted to say THANK YOU!

A while ago I was also on dual-boot Windows XP & 7, and wanted to remove the XP.

I followed your advice ... and everything went smooth. When I restarted the system, the Windows Boot Manager menu was still there with the Windows 7 option only (selected).
To remove the Windows Boot Manager menu, I just needed to implement the following - open a Command Prompt window with Administrator privileges and type:

Code:

BCDEdit /delete {ntldr} /f

Now, my system boots straight into Windows 7.

Thanks for the update tfu.

Glad it's working well for you.

I installed Win7-64 over previous XP Pro 32 and specifically tried to delete old Dell recovery partition or any other wasted space in the setup. When I boot up I am presented with three options: to boot to old OS, check memory, or boot to Win 7, the default (in 30 seconds if no other choice). I have looked for any other partitions or logical drives, but only see the C:drive and a bit of unused space (55MB). Do I really have a dual boot option? I am running Ultimate and my BIOS allows VM. Is that how one enters an XP virtual mode, as if it were a dual boot? I still have Windows.old on the disk, but I can't believe that that has anything to do with this. (I intend to delete Windows.old folder--any reason not to? I have copy wanted files on NAS.) I haven't tried this boot to old OS option. Anyone?

Thanks Jonathan. I can see that item, the only one, in the Boot tab in msconfig, but delete is greyed out and right clicking on the item does nothing. I am curious why this boot option was created. I assume that the boot to the other OS leads nowhere, but I am afraid to try it. The one line item in the msconfig boot tab says Windows 7 (C:/Windows) current OS; default OS. No mention of the memory check, which is the thrid option listed at boot and which I also haven't tried. Did I make this happen by selecting a boot option memory check at Win 7 installation--which I have forgotten, and got a false OS option to boot (sorry for the pun)? Weird.