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Old 18th July 2009 | 15:56
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Sprogget
 
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System partition delete?

I've got 7 & Vista on two separate hdd's as a dual boot config. I've decided that the 7 build I have is robust enough to stay until my bought & paid for copy turns up, so I would like to lose Vista altogether off the system, so as to have 7 installed on a small partition on drive 1 & use drive 2 & the rest of drive one for media storage, since that's the main purpose of the machine.

Vista though is the system partition & I can't therefore format it as windows restricts me from doing so. I'm more than comfortable creating & deleting partitons and changing the system around to suit, but this is new to me.

So, is it advisable & if so, how do I go about it, short of rebuilding 7 over the existing Vista build on that drive. Command prompt at Boot? Use Vista disk to format the partition? or leave well alone?
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