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Removing old Vista partition, but it's the active, system partition

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Mar 15, 20268122 views
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I originally had Vista installed on my laptop and installed Win7 as a dual boot option. Now I've moved everything from Vista, I have removed the dual boot option via msconfig.exe. Finally, I want to remove the Vista partition (and then extend the Win7 partition to reclaim the disk space). So, in Wi…

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I would do what you said in the last part. There are ways by copying the bootloader / system files then marking as active e.t.c. but it can take time and can get complicated By far the easiest way is simply to delete the other partition and mark you…

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