removing xp

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

You can try this. Boot using windows vista & then go into dis
management. Then right click on the partion which has windows XP on it
then click on format. Once you have done that then boot using window
vista dvd & run the start up repair. To fix the MBR record of window
vista

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Tanuj

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Newsgroups;849952 Wrote:
> H
> I had Xp on my system and used it for some time, Wife bought me ne
> PC, it's got everything including Vista Ultimate, I took it off and pu
> X
> on, then I decided to put Vista on the other partition and give it
> fe
> weeks to see how it went, well I know what a lot of people say abou
> Vista
> but to be honest, I have got used to it and it's ok now, once I got ri
> of
> few things like UAC etc, due to the PC specs it runs very well and
> hav
> 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 t
> remove Xp, is it possible to remove XP, and make the "D" (which is
> partition of a 360 gig drive) the "C" part of the drive, what I a
> tryin
> to do is keep vista without having to re-install and all the setting u
> tha
> comes with it
>
> Thank
>
> Gordo

Hello Gordon

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

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

Also, windows disk management won't allow you to move Vista's partitio
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-T
Geek
(http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...ista-partition

Hope this help

SIW

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