removing dual boot

insane200 · 23 Mar 2007 at 19:50

help guy's.

im currently running a dual boot setup on my single hdd, but i want to remove this and put both partitions back to one, how do i go about this ?

rpstewart · 23 Mar 2007 at 20:15

The easiest way would probably be to clear out the unwanted partition manually - copy anything you want to keep to the other one. Then use Partition Magic to remove the unwanted partition and extend the other one into the released space. You'll need to make sure that the remaining partition is bootable though - it needs to be set as active and have all the right bits in the MBR etc, you may need to do a fixmbr from the recovery console to set all that up.

insane200 · 23 Mar 2007 at 20:17

cool. cheers, can i do that with the trial version of partition magic ?

snowdog · 23 Mar 2007 at 22:52

Edit the boot.ini, remove the OS you dont want.
Boot into the OS you want to keep, delete old OS (just delete files), then you can use partitionmagic to merge partitions or format the 2nd and expanding the 1st partition