OS/partition help

RIZZEE · 26 May 2009 at 15:18

right now i've got 2 partitions on my 500gb hdd, one with windows 7 and the other with vista
I basically want to get rid of the partition with windows 7 and have the whole hdd with vista, but im not sure how to do this, is there a way to do this without deleting everything on the hdd?
I can shrink the volume to a certain extent but i cant seem to get rid of the whole thing, any ideas?
help is much appriciated

Thanks!

RIZZEE · 26 May 2009 at 15:30

when i boot it comes up with which os to boot from, but if i dont chose anything it'll boot with windows 7

ill take a look at partition magic, but im still confused with what to do

RIZZEE · 26 May 2009 at 15:44

rpstewart said:
Disk Management will tell you which partition is the boot one. Check that first before you start looking at third party tools.

Its coming up as windows 7 as boot
is there no way to format partitions of the hdd?

RIZZEE · 26 May 2009 at 16:16

sounds way too messy

cant i install vista over windows 7?
or buy a seperate hdd for the os and format my current hdd?

RIZZEE · 26 May 2009 at 17:30

ok, somehow i managed to get rid of the vista partition, so the only os on my hdd is windows 7..
can i simply install vista whilst keeping my files? or is that not an option?

RIZZEE · 26 May 2009 at 20:04

hmm
whenever i chose to install vista on my hdd, it comes up with

RIZZEE · 26 May 2009 at 20:15

it is what i want, I just wanted to couble check that that was alright to do