Re: Deleting old system Partition


"Kevin" <Kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have just installed Vista Home Premium on an empty partition on my
drive
(the existing one with xp on was too small and I wanted to make sure I
liked
Vista before I deleted XP). I now want to delete the xp sytem partition as
IM
happy with Vista and I want the machine to boot Vista without asking
which
windows system I want to use, but the drive manager will not let me. Is
there
a way I can reformat the old xp partition and end up with a usable
partition?

Before anyone can reply to your question, you need to
report your exact partition structure. Run diskmgmt.msc
and tell us what is on which drive and which partition is
active.


.

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