deleting partion from laptop harddrive. tips/advice please

wakkaday · 30-10-2010, 16:05

my laptop is an acer 6920g. i think at the moment its 250gb, but when i bought it had been partitioned (i have windows vista on one partition and windows 7 on the other)

what i want to do is delete the windows vista partition, so i just have one partition on it with windows 7...how can i do this safely?

on another side note...if i want to change the harddrive totally to a bigger one, is there a way i can replicate everything from my existing harddrive onto the new one? what harddrive do i need that would work in my laptop. its an acer 6920g.

thanks

Kymmy · 30-10-2010, 16:24

Format the partition you don;t want then use Disk manager to create a single dynamic disk out of the two..

Otherwise you'll need some form of disk management software (like partition magic) to delete the Vista partition, and then move/enlarge the win7 one

idi banashapan · 30-10-2010, 16:37

"parted Magic" (note the difference in name) is another option. it's free, quick and easy to use.

also, bare in mind that if you are changing a dual boot system, you may need to make appropriate changes to any boot files. in windows 7, you need to use BootMgr, as boot.ini is not used any longer. i believe it involves the use of the windows 7 dvd. or EasyBCD, which is downloadable... LINKY to EasyBCD

wakkaday · 30-10-2010, 17:17

i have windows 7 on one partition

and vista in the other partiton

i use windows 7 regularly and went disc management trying to delete the windows 7 partition and clicked on windows 7 and made it active...still couldnt delete vista partition and shrinked drive, pressed default setting , restarted laptop now getting BOOTMGR error....

i have both windows 7 vista repair disc but its not working - still getting error..

help!??

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got it working... thanks