How do I remove XP from another partition?

[Suh Dude]

How would I remove my Windows XP from my partition and including the boot menu without it messing up? My main partition has Windows 7 and I have no real use of XP anymore. I also want to use all that free remaining gigabytes into my main partition so how would I do that as well?

 

[wheres_]

Use your xp install disk to enter the formatting menu- delete your xp partition from your hardrive.

As for adding all your free space into one partition- you may have to reformat the whole volume. Although the windows 7 installer may have a tool for agglomerating partitions.

 

[Grega]

Nah the windows 7 partition manager sucks as much ass as the win XP one.

I tried rearanging my space a bit and got 10gb free unused space right behind my windows partition. Win 7 wasnt even able to use that and add it tothe main partition when installing.

I did however manage to find a freeware program that did the job. Works kinda like partition magic. Not sure what its capabilities are on joining 2 partitions. But if they are placed one after another, then simply delete the XP oartition and extend the Win7 one. As for the boot options a short look at google got me this.

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21741595-Windows-7-boot-manager-editing-questions

Seems like it can help you to. The partition managing tool i talked about you can get here -> http://www.partition-tool.com/

 

[kam!]

I use gparted (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/). Delete the win xp partition, then resize your OS partition to fill the space (assuming both partition are on the same drive and right next to each other).
This can take some time and data loss is possible, as always when messing with partitions (hasn't happened yet to me).

As for editing the boot managar, insisde win7 it is done via BCEDIT (info in here http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21741595-Windows-7-boot-manager-editing-questions)

 

[dutchmeat]

And there are alot of nice partition tools on Hirens Bootcd(http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd)

 

[KarrdeKNR]

it'd just be easier to format the partition and use it as a "2nd HDD"

 

[Suh Dude]

it'd just be easier to format the partition and use it as a "2nd HDD"

Was going to do that but I'm planning to buy a 1-2TB external so I could share the space with everyone in my house. I was planning to keep my pictures and music on it.