Guys, quick Q about Vista/7 dual boot and how to remove one

[Diggsy]

Guys, as title, just been handed a laptop that has Win7 and Vista on dual boot.

The system was initially Win7, but Vista was added as he was duped into thinking that Vista was needed to run a particular piece of software (which it wasn't ).

So, he wants me to remove Vista without touching the Win7 install, but I've not done that before.

From looking at the system it appears Vista has been installed in a seperate partition, as the Disk Management screen lists the following...

System Reserved 100MB NTFS Healthy (System Active, Primary Partition)

C: 206.42GB NTFS Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)

D: 26.37GB NTFS Healthy (Primary Partition)

Now, I know that C is the original Win7 install, and D is the new Vista install.

Is it simply a matter of deleting the partition with Vista on it, or is it not that simple?

Do I maybe need to use something like EasyBCD so that the boot ini file doesn't get stuffed?

Thanks

 

[paradigm]

There is no boot.ini file, hence the BCD part of EasyBCD

I'd back up the current BCD using EasyBCD, then edit out the entry for Vista. Then reboot anc check that you only have Win7 as a boot option (or no boot menu at all hopefully), then delete the old partition and extend C back into the empty space.

 

[Diggsy]

There is no boot.ini file, hence the BCD part of EasyBCD

I'd back up the current BCD using EasyBCD, then edit out the entry for Vista. Then reboot anc check that you only have Win7 as a boot option (or no boot menu at all hopefully), then delete the old partition and extend C back into the empty space.

Thanks a lot. How would I extend C back? Is that easily done?

EDIT - found it, easy peasy. Thanks again for your help