I have spent hours searching and finding numerous instructions about how to do this. Every one indicates options/selections which don't exist on my system. None of the instructions can be followed through.
Hard Drive has 5 logical drives. I started with xp on logical drive C:. eventually I installed win7 on logical E:,. dual boot.
disk management shows xp drive as system, active, primary.
win7 drive as: boot, pagefile, crashdump, logical drive
can't format xp drive because it is "system" (though file manager seems to start to let me start to format xp drive, though i haven't tried taking it to completion yet. )
I have tried easeus partition manager. it won't let me change xp drive system to logical, because it is a system drive. It won't let me change win7 drive to primary because it is a boot drive.
Numerous instructions talk about making the win7 partition "active" but that isn't an option in easeus.
I have gotten rid of the dual boot screen. system boots directly to win7.
1. How do I get to the next step and eliminate xp? should I try formatting from file manager? or is there something else that I need to do first?
2. If I do remove xp, can I leave win7 on the E: logical partition (of course it shows as c: when booting to win7) or will it need to be moved to the original c: position on the hard drive?
seems like this should be fairly routine operation at this point, but apparently not. can anyone help me to figure it out?
Hard Drive has 5 logical drives. I started with xp on logical drive C:. eventually I installed win7 on logical E:,. dual boot.
disk management shows xp drive as system, active, primary.
win7 drive as: boot, pagefile, crashdump, logical drive
can't format xp drive because it is "system" (though file manager seems to start to let me start to format xp drive, though i haven't tried taking it to completion yet. )
I have tried easeus partition manager. it won't let me change xp drive system to logical, because it is a system drive. It won't let me change win7 drive to primary because it is a boot drive.
Numerous instructions talk about making the win7 partition "active" but that isn't an option in easeus.
I have gotten rid of the dual boot screen. system boots directly to win7.
1. How do I get to the next step and eliminate xp? should I try formatting from file manager? or is there something else that I need to do first?
2. If I do remove xp, can I leave win7 on the E: logical partition (of course it shows as c: when booting to win7) or will it need to be moved to the original c: position on the hard drive?
seems like this should be fairly routine operation at this point, but apparently not. can anyone help me to figure it out?
