deleting OS and canceling dual boot

[nikanika]

Hello,
I need help with deleting OS and canceling dual boot,

previous state:
251 MB primary
C: win media center / system, active, primary /
D: win xp / extended, logical /
E: dvd drive

I've formatted D: and it has become unallocated, my dvd drive got new number D:
because I couldnt use my dvd drive to run installation dvd of Win7 / I got error code 0x80070017 which is about corrupt dvd or something / I have copied it to C: and did run setup.exe.
It has asked me where to put it and I chose that unallocated space. Now after installation everything works fine,

and it looks like:
251 MB primary
C: win media center / system, active, primary /
D: dvd drive
E: win7 / boot, paging file, logical, state failure in the system /


Start-Run-MSConfig in boot tab is: Windows7 (E:\Windows): Current OS, Default OS, nothing else.
Win7 has created Windows.old file but I have deleted it.
at the start up I get a page for 30 sec to choose from Previous OS and Win7, I know I can disable it to appear again going to Start - control panel - system - advanced - start and restore...

But I want to know how to delete OS from C:, whether it can be done safely, because E: Win7 is not primary only logical, how to get rid Win Media Centre for good and keep Win7 as the only OS .

Thanks for your ideas. Nika


Hello guys,
did some research here and I have found http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/109752-partition-recover-space-used-older-os.html by Bare Foot Kid.

Can I use this tutorial to solve my problem?

 

[gregrocker]

Where did you get Win7? Burn another DVD at 4x speed using ImgBurn. You need to be able to boot it to install or for repairs.

I would wipe the HD of all code to clean reinstall Win7 since you now want to use only Win7 and it installed to a failed state on the Logical, probably because it couldn't place its boot files correctly on C. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/91339-ssd-hdd-optimize-windows-reinstallation.html

If you want to try to keep it, then back up your files, boot free Partition Wizard bootable CD, rightclick C to delete, OK, rightclick Win7 to Modify>Convert to Primary, OK, then rightclick Win7 to Modify>Set to Active. Then rightclick Win7 to resize into deleted C space if you want, OK, Apply all steps. Free Download Magic Partition Manager Software - Partition Wizard Online

Next boot the Win7 DVD Repair console or Repair Cd to run Startup Repair up to 3 separate times with reboots: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/105541-startup-repair-run-3-separate-times.html

 

[nikanika]

reporting back

Hello,

so I have downloaded the file, burnt iso, and run. But in partition wizard, my 70GB of E: where Win7 was supposed to be, was unallocated disk space, so I had to create one modify set to primary and set it active.

it was strange because in windows disk manager was C: xp media center and E: win7, / D: dvd drive /

I am now confused why Windows and Partition Wizard have reported different things.
By the way I have deleted C: in Partition Wizard and lost all my data. Because there was not any OS on E: I had to do clean install which was smooth without any error codes.

I am not happy about lost data, is there any way to recover them?
But overall this was very valuable experience.
Thanks for help. Nika

 

[gregrocker]

Always back up your data before doing any repartitioning or installation.

Try Recuva Data Recovery to scan the HD to see if it can recover your data.

If not, I would wipe the HD as suggested first before reinstalling. Here are tips for getting a perfect install: http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/125874-re-install-windows-7-a.html#post1086729