Hello:
I had fist installed Win 7 in a separate partition so that I could dual boot between XP and Windows 7 until I was confortable that Win 7 was for me. I'm now happy with Win 7. XP is now on partion D:\ and Win 7 is on partion C:\. I just took an image of drive C:\ onto an external DVD.
If I reformat my hard drive, collapsing the two partitions into one, can I re-install the saved image onto the larger partition. The drive will be the same drive as before - just with one partition instead of two.
Or, am I asking the wrong question. I wanted to delete the XP partition and expand the Win7 partition to swallow it up but that doesn't seem to be working. I have managed to change the 'Active' partition from D to C so I think I'm half way there.
I am doing this on a laptop that only has a small hard drive. Each partition is 30 Gigs now and I want one large partition with 60 Gigs.
I don't want to do a complete reinstall of the OS if possible because I have configured all my apps just so and it took months (through the Betas, to RC1 and now RTM) to get all my Lenovo device drivers to work properly.
Any ideas would be helpful.
Thanks
...Dale
I had fist installed Win 7 in a separate partition so that I could dual boot between XP and Windows 7 until I was confortable that Win 7 was for me. I'm now happy with Win 7. XP is now on partion D:\ and Win 7 is on partion C:\. I just took an image of drive C:\ onto an external DVD.
If I reformat my hard drive, collapsing the two partitions into one, can I re-install the saved image onto the larger partition. The drive will be the same drive as before - just with one partition instead of two.
Or, am I asking the wrong question. I wanted to delete the XP partition and expand the Win7 partition to swallow it up but that doesn't seem to be working. I have managed to change the 'Active' partition from D to C so I think I'm half way there.
I am doing this on a laptop that only has a small hard drive. Each partition is 30 Gigs now and I want one large partition with 60 Gigs.
I don't want to do a complete reinstall of the OS if possible because I have configured all my apps just so and it took months (through the Betas, to RC1 and now RTM) to get all my Lenovo device drivers to work properly.
Any ideas would be helpful.
Thanks
...Dale