Windows 7 Deleting an old opperating system

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harleyd

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I have recently upgraded to Windows 7. However, It seems as if Windows Vista is still installed on my computer.

When starting up it gives me the option to start up on vista or W7.

How do I delete windows Vista from my computer and free up the space it is using.

Thanks,
James Keeton
 
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Hello James,

Go to Start > Run, and type msconfig, click the Boot tab and select Windows Vista and choose Delete. If this fails to take the entry out, you can download EasyBCD 1.7.2 to remove the Vista entry from the boot.ini file.

You should now be able to go to Start > Run and type diskmgmt.msc and delete the partition, then format it again. You could also choose to make multiple partitions.
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right click rename on your C: drive, to call it something less confusing such as windows 7 instead of Vista64
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very good idea.

What happened to your second hard drive?

You should have at least 60GB for Windows 7 installation, considering your going to install a number of 3rd party applications.
 
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reghakr said:
very good idea.

What happened to your second hard drive?

You should have at least 60GB for Windows 7 installation, considering your going to install a number of 3rd party applications.
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Well, I have 38gb of taken up space on the ( C: ) and 10gb partition combined. I don't really get why that 10gb partition is there.
 
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Would you consider a full "clean" install?

Be aware, you'll have to re-install all your 3rd party applications.

I use GParted for all my Windows installations. It look familiar to Linux if that helps at all.

Burn the ISO and boot your computer with it to get a feel as to it's capabilities

I'd be glad to help out with instructions..
 
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So Gparted is a program that organizes my "used disk space" during installation of the OS? or after?
 
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I think the operating system (W7) is only taking u 28gb on my C-drive. The 10gb partition I reformatted and turned into "z" drive. It's not a big deal to me that one of my hard drives has been split into 2. I think I'll just leave it the way it is.

Thanks a billion for yalls support,
James Keeton
 
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if you right click computer\manage you can then open disk management and delete the Z drive then extend the C: drive to inocrporate it ?

If that grumbles about not on an active partition then use partition wizard
 
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