Removing XP partition in Vista

[BubbySoup]

Need a little help with this one please.

When my copy of Vista arrived, I split my C drive in half using Partition Magic and installed Vista onto the 2nd partition. Now I am happy with Vista, I want to get rid of XP. When in Vista, under drive management, Vista shows up as the 2nd partition, labelled C & non-active, with my XP install showing as the D drive, active & being the first partition.

My question is, can I simply re-format the XP part and expand the Vista partition into the formatted area "behind" it? I've only ever used PM to fiddle with partitions and have discovered my version doesn't work in Vista, so am stuck trying to use expand & shrink via drive management

I tried booting back into XP to manage the partitions from there, but although PM sees the Vista partition, it refuses to do anything with it.

 

[bledd]

probably better off backing up stuff on the vista + xp drives onto another drive

formatting the whole thing and installing vista again..

you might be able to use acronis true image to create an image of vista on another drive, then restore that to the whole drive

 

[BubbySoup]

Yeah, I had a feeling I was going to have to do something like that

Bah, should have put Vista onto a separate drive in the first place - ah well.

 

[bledd]

its worth trying acronis though

get the acronis home 10 trial, choose the 'create bootable media' option, then use that boot disc to make an image of your vista drive (has to be saved on another pc/drive)