How to get rid of a OS on dual boot

[ringo14]

Hi,
Is there any one of getting rid of one os in a dual boot? i wanna get rid of win7 which is in my C drive and keep vista which is in my D drive , any kinda software or a way to do it simply without editing the boot inf thingy ?? and also when i am on win7 my vista partition drive changes to F drive and when i am on vista changes back to D not sure if that has to do anything with getting rid of one os but just incase does't conflict with anything.
Thanks in advance

 

[whs]

Look into Disk Management and tell us which partition is marked as active. My guess would be it is the Vista partition. But we need to know for certain so that you do not lose your Vista MBR.

 

[Lemur]

Remove a Windows 7 Dual Boot, Part I - PCWorld

 

[ringo14]

Look into Disk Management and tell us which partition is marked as active. My guess would be it is the Vista partition. But we need to know for certain so that you do not lose your Vista MBR.

Here is a screen shot :

 

[whs]

On your screenshot, D is the active partition - and that is not the Vista partition. I assume it is your Win7 partition. If you delete that, you lose your MBRs. That can be fixed ( http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/104341-bootmgr-missing-fix.html ), but it is an extra step.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello ringo14, welcome to Seven Forums!





From the snip you posted, D: is Windows 7 that you want to do away with, is there data you want to keep on E: and F:?


If not you could use Option Two in this tutorial at the link below to get rid of W_7 and reclaim all that space back into Vista at the same time; though if you go that route I'd do a wipe to the W_7 partition before you did the resize.

Partition Wizard : Use the Bootable CD

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[gregrocker]

Edit: I see Barefoot was posting at the same time a better solution using his tutorial with screenshots:

Since your two middle partitions are empty just use free Partition Wizard bootable CD to delete the first three partitions, then rightclick Resize Vista partition, drag left grey border all the way to the left to take up full disk. Then slide the right grey border to resize the right side of Vista if you want to make space for data partitions to its right. Click OK.

Next rightclick Vista partition to Modify>Mark Active, OK. Apply all Steps.

Now boot into Vista DVD Repair console or Repair CD, click through to recovery tools list to run Startup Repair up to 3 separate times with reboots until Vista starts on its own.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

As Greg has said you will need to do at least 3 startup repairs with restarts to Vista, have a look at this tutorial at the link below to give you a better understanding of the process though you can do the repairs after the resize as the Option Two in the PW tutorial shows you.


Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times

 

[ringo14]

Thanks it worked now i only have one OS

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Thanks it worked now i only have one OS

Thanks for the update but how did you do it, as others may find the method you used useful.

 

[ringo14]

What i did was put my vista cd in and rebooted and booted the cd and then went through the steps to install vista then i stopped at which drive i have to install and i picked advance options and formated my win7 drive and i pressed the " x " button and then i had to repair it cause of the missing boot file but after that everything is fine. Hope u understand what i said ><

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Now if you want to recover some of that space, have a look at this tutorial at the link below.

Thanks for the info.


Partition Wizard : Use the Bootable CD

 

[ringo14]

Now if you want to recover some of that space, have a look at this tutorial at the link below.

Thanks for the info.


Partition Wizard : Use the Bootable CD

Thanks but i got all my space back in the drive and thanks for ur help

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Now if you want to recover some of that space, have a look at this tutorial at the link below.

Thanks for the info.


Partition Wizard : Use the Bootable CD

Thanks but i got all my space back in the drive and thanks for ur help

My pleasure mate.

 

[gregrocker]

What i did was put my vista cd in and rebooted and booted the cd and then went through the steps to install vista then i stopped at which drive i have to install and i picked advance options and formated my win7 drive and i pressed the " x " button and then i had to repair it cause of the missing boot file but after that everything is fine. Hope u understand what i said ><

Good work. Did you have to mark Vista partition Active first?

How many times did you have to run Vista Startup Repair before it started?

I am asking because I can't remember exactly how automated Vista Startup Repair is - not as much as Win7, I don't believe, and even Win7 sometimes requires the partition to be manually marked Active.

 

[ringo14]

It detected that i have a problem on the 1st go and then took me 3 reboots to make it work

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Glad you got it sorted and thanks for the update.