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| Remove Windows Vista with Windows XP Disk Management Hi, I have a triple-boot system (Windows XP Pro, Ubuntu Linux, and Windows Vista RC1). And Windows Vista is about to expire on June 2007, so I need to remove it. When I boot up my computer, I see the GRUB bootloader (for Linux). It gives me the option of booting Ubuntu or going into the Windows Boot Manager. When I go into the boot manager, the Vista bootloader boots up and gives me the choice of an Earlier version of Windows (XP) or Windows Vista. I have 5 partitions. 2 linux partitions and 3 Windows (NTFS) partitions. The 2 linux partitions are the main Ubuntu partition and the "linux-swap" partition. The 3 Windows partitions are C, E and F. C is my Windows XP partition, E is my Windows Vista partition, and F is my Docments partition (where all my documents are kept). What I need to do is remove Windows Vista and its bootloader and then merge the E partition into the F partition using the Windows XP Disk Management or some other Windows XP utility. How do I do this? |
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| Re: Remove Windows Vista with Windows XP Disk Management White space needed here: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_w.htm#wp -- All the Best, Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP) Taskbar Repair Tool http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm <happymac.support******.com> wrote in message news:1175563581.502905.135210@p77g2000hsh.googlegr oups.com... > Hi, > > I have a triple-boot system (Windows XP Pro, Ubuntu Linux, and Windows > Vista RC1). And Windows Vista is about to expire on June 2007, so I > need to remove it. When I boot up my computer, I see the GRUB > bootloader (for Linux). It gives me the option of booting Ubuntu or > going into the Windows Boot Manager. When I go into the boot manager, > the Vista bootloader boots up and gives me the choice of an Earlier > version of Windows (XP) or Windows Vista. I have 5 partitions. 2 linux > partitions and 3 Windows (NTFS) partitions. The 2 linux partitions are > the main Ubuntu partition and the "linux-swap" partition. The 3 > Windows partitions are C, E and F. C is my Windows XP partition, E is > my Windows Vista partition, and F is my Docments partition (where all > my documents are kept). What I need to do is remove Windows Vista and > its bootloader and then merge the E partition into the F partition > using the Windows XP Disk Management or some other Windows XP utility. > How do I do this? > |
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| Re: Remove Windows Vista with Windows XP Disk Management On Apr 2, 6:35 pm, "Kelly" <k...@mvps.org> wrote: > White space needed here: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_w.htm#wp > > -- > > All the Best, > Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP) > > Taskbar Repair Toolhttp://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm > > <happymac.supp...******.com> wrote in message > > news:1175563581.502905.135210@p77g2000hsh.googlegr oups.com... > > > Hi, > > > I have a triple-boot system (Windows XP Pro, Ubuntu Linux, and Windows > > Vista RC1). And Windows Vista is about to expire on June 2007, so I > > need to remove it. When I boot up my computer, I see the GRUB > > bootloader (for Linux). It gives me the option of booting Ubuntu or > > going into the Windows Boot Manager. When I go into the boot manager, > > the Vista bootloader boots up and gives me the choice of an Earlier > > version of Windows (XP) or Windows Vista. I have 5 partitions. 2 linux > > partitions and 3 Windows (NTFS) partitions. The 2 linux partitions are > > the main Ubuntu partition and the "linux-swap" partition. The 3 > > Windows partitions are C, E and F. C is my Windows XP partition, E is > > my Windows Vista partition, and F is my Docments partition (where all > > my documents are kept). What I need to do is remove Windows Vista and > > its bootloader and then merge the E partition into the F partition > > using the Windows XP Disk Management or some other Windows XP utility. > > How do I do this? Fine. I'll list it more clearly: - I have a triple-boot system (Windows XP Pro, Ubuntu Linux, and Windows Vista RC1). And Windows Vista is about to expire on June 2007, so I need to remove it. - When I boot up my computer, I see the GRUBbootloader (for Linux). It gives me the option of booting Ubuntu or going into the Windows Boot Manager. When I go into the boot manager, the Vista bootloader boots up and gives me the choice of an Earlier version of Windows (XP) or Windows Vista. - I have 5 partitions. 2 linux partitions and 3 Windows (NTFS) partitions. - The 2 linux partitions are The main Ubuntu partition and the "linux- swap" partition - The 3 Windows partitions are C, E and F. C is my Windows XP partition, E is my Windows Vista partition, and F is my Docments partition (where all my documents are kept). OK so there is all the info. My question is: What I need to do is remove Windows Vista and its bootloader and then merge the E partition into the F partition using the Windows XP Disk Management or some other Windows XP utility. How do I do this without doing anything to Ubuntu or XP? |
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| Re: Remove Windows Vista with Windows XP Disk Management You can't do this from XP. You can't merge partitions in XP. You will need 3rd party software. When you get rid of the Vista bootloader you will in all likelihood also corrupt or overwrite GRUB. You have a very complicated setup. Trying to figure out exactly how to do this without being there is a guess at best. In general it would go something like this. Boot from an XP CD to the recovery console and run the following commands: FIXMBR, FIXBOOT This will probably mess up GRUB but it should create a single boot to XP. You'll now have to boot from your Linux CD and fix GRUB. Once you've got the multi boot running with GRUB you can use a partition editing program to delete the Vista partition and possibly merge it with the XP partition. I say possibly because they may not be adjacent to one another. It is very probable that in doing all this you will cause some problems with or another of the remaining OS'. -- Kerry Brown Microsoft MVP - Shell/User http://www.vistahelp.ca <happymac.support******.com> wrote in message news:1175563581.502905.135210@p77g2000hsh.googlegr oups.com... > Hi, > > I have a triple-boot system (Windows XP Pro, Ubuntu Linux, and Windows > Vista RC1). And Windows Vista is about to expire on June 2007, so I > need to remove it. When I boot up my computer, I see the GRUB > bootloader (for Linux). It gives me the option of booting Ubuntu or > going into the Windows Boot Manager. When I go into the boot manager, > the Vista bootloader boots up and gives me the choice of an Earlier > version of Windows (XP) or Windows Vista. I have 5 partitions. 2 linux > partitions and 3 Windows (NTFS) partitions. The 2 linux partitions are > the main Ubuntu partition and the "linux-swap" partition. The 3 > Windows partitions are C, E and F. C is my Windows XP partition, E is > my Windows Vista partition, and F is my Docments partition (where all > my documents are kept). What I need to do is remove Windows Vista and > its bootloader and then merge the E partition into the F partition > using the Windows XP Disk Management or some other Windows XP utility. > How do I do this? > |
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| Re: Remove Windows Vista with Windows XP Disk Management On Apr 2, 7:04 pm, happymac.supp...******.com wrote: > I'm no expert, but if I deleted the Vista partition, when I chose to > boot Windows from GRUB, wouldn't it read XP's boot.ini and boot > straight into XP? BTW, I say this because in the GRUB configuration file, the code to boot to Windows XP and the code to boot into the Vista bootloader are the same. If I am right, GRUB will boot straight into XP if it cant find a Vista bootloader. |
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| Re: Remove Windows Vista with Windows XP Disk Management FIXMBR will probably break GRUB. You will need to boot from a Linux CD/DVD/floppy and reinstall the GRUB bootloader. -- Kerry Brown Microsoft MVP - Shell/User http://www.vistahelp.ca <happymac.support******.com> wrote in message news:1175565864.236516.134620@e65g2000hsc.googlegr oups.com... > I'm no expert, but if I deleted the Vista partition, when I chose to > boot Windows from GRUB, wouldn't it read XP's boot.ini and boot > straight into XP? > |
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