What is the best way to remove an unwanted partition?

Hi,

I currently have three partitions on my main storage array. One is Vista
Ultimate. I like to experiment so I did a clean install Windows 7 beta on a
new partition, from the Vista partition. Installation went smoothly because
the Windows 7 beta installer took most of the hardware info that I had
slaved to perfect from Vista and used that to install Windows 7 beta. It
made a few improvements. Then, since I like to experiment I cloned the Vista
partition and then did an upgrade using the Windows 7 beta installer. That
went OK and it saved me the work of installing a lot of software on the
clean install. My impression is that Windows 7 is meant to be more of a
business OS while Vista is more a home OS. I have not been able to start up
the web and ftp servers, which is easy to do in Vista. That is not what I
came here to ask.

Any good OS is designed to protect itself from the stupidity or malfeasance
of its master. I think it is the law of robotics. I would like to remove the
clean install Windows 7 beta partition. I have tried in Window 7 beta
upgrade and in Vista. No luck. Microsoft is more powerful than I am.

Please help me. What is the best way you remove an unwanted partition, using
Microsoft software? (Microsoft is more powerful than commercial partition
management software, which fails.)

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:29:36 -0700, "Mike Vandeman"
<> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I currently have three partitions on my main storage array. One is Vista
>Ultimate. I like to experiment so I did a clean install Windows 7 beta on a
>new partition, from the Vista partition. Installation went smoothly because
>the Windows 7 beta installer took most of the hardware info that I had
>slaved to perfect from Vista and used that to install Windows 7 beta. It
>made a few improvements. Then, since I like to experiment I cloned the Vista
>partition and then did an upgrade using the Windows 7 beta installer. That
>went OK and it saved me the work of installing a lot of software on the
>clean install. My impression is that Windows 7 is meant to be more of a
>business OS while Vista is more a home OS. I have not been able to start up
>the web and ftp servers, which is easy to do in Vista. That is not what I
>came here to ask.
>
>Any good OS is designed to protect itself from the stupidity or malfeasance
>of its master. I think it is the law of robotics. I would like to remove the
>clean install Windows 7 beta partition. I have tried in Window 7 beta
>upgrade and in Vista. No luck. Microsoft is more powerful than I am.
>
>Please help me. What is the best way you remove an unwanted partition, using
>Microsoft software? (Microsoft is more powerful than commercial partition
>management software, which fails.)
>
Boot into Vista, run Disk Management, and check the status of the
Windows 7 partition. As long as it's not System or Paging, you should
be able to delete the partition.

"Mike Vandeman" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi,
>
> I currently have three partitions on my main storage array. One is Vista
> Ultimate. I like to experiment so I did a clean install Windows 7 beta on
> a new partition, from the Vista partition. Installation went smoothly
> because the Windows 7 beta installer took most of the hardware info that I
> had slaved to perfect from Vista and used that to install Windows 7 beta.
> It made a few improvements. Then, since I like to experiment I cloned the
> Vista partition and then did an upgrade using the Windows 7 beta
> installer. That went OK and it saved me the work of installing a lot of
> software on the clean install. My impression is that Windows 7 is meant to
> be more of a business OS while Vista is more a home OS. I have not been
> able to start up the web and ftp servers, which is easy to do in Vista.
> That is not what I came here to ask.
>
> Any good OS is designed to protect itself from the stupidity or
> malfeasance of its master. I think it is the law of robotics. I would like
> to remove the clean install Windows 7 beta partition. I have tried in
> Window 7 beta upgrade and in Vista. No luck. Microsoft is more powerful
> than I am.


If for any reason you can't use Disk Management to do the job (type
diskmgmt.msc into run box), then use G-Parted Live. It will do things that
Disk Management will not do beautifully and format considerably faster. The
non-intuitive trick is that when you get the interface up, go to the lower
right with your mouse and drag it the width of your screen with the mouse.

Because if you don't, changes will not apply.

G-Parted can format in literal seconds, and also add space to a partition if
needed.

http://lifehacker.com/software/parti...-cd-175024.php

Good luck,

CH

In article <>,
Mike Vandeman <nul@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Please help me. What is the best way you remove an unwanted partition, using
>Microsoft software? (Microsoft is more powerful than commercial partition
>management software, which fails.)

Lol. Have you tried fdisk? Boot a dos floppy and run fdisk.

"the wharf rat" <> wrote in message
news:gsa6mn$qbu$...
> In article <>,
> Mike Vandeman <nul@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>Please help me. What is the best way you remove an unwanted partition,
>>using
>>Microsoft software? (Microsoft is more powerful than commercial partition
>>management software, which fails.)
>
> Lol. Have you tried fdisk? Boot a dos floppy and run fdisk.
>

What's a DOS FLOPPY :-)