Re: removing xp

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Newsgroups;849952 Wrote:
Hi
I had Xp on my system and used it for some time, Wife bought me new
PC, it's got everything including Vista Ultimate, I took it off and put
Xp
on, then I decided to put Vista on the other partition and give it a
few
weeks to see how it went, well I know what a lot of people say about
Vista,
but to be honest, I have got used to it and it's ok now, once I got rid
of a
few things like UAC etc, due to the PC specs it runs very well and I
have
decided to keep it, that's where my problem starts.

I installed XP first then Vista, set up a dual boot, but now I want to
remove Xp, is it possible to remove XP, and make the "D" (which is a
partition of a 360 gig drive) the "C" part of the drive, what I am
trying
to do is keep vista without having to re-install and all the setting up
that
comes with it.

Thanks

Gordon

Hello Gordon,

I am assuming you mean xp is on your first partition and Vista's boot
volume is on the second partition. You wish to remove xp and move Vista
onto the first partition ?

If you look in disk management through Vista's eyes , you will probably
see that Vista's system volume is on the first partition.

Also, windows disk management won't allow you to move Vista's partition
intact, or extend to the left ( as you view it in Disk Management ).

You may need to use a bootable 3rd party tool to do this, like Gparted

'GParted -- Download' (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php)

'Using GParted to Resize Your Windows Vista Partition :: the How-To
Geek'
(http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-gparted-to-resize-your-windows-vista-partition)

Hope this helps

SIW2


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SIW2
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