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How to kill off xp partition, without killing my w7?

 
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Hero
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 11:20 pm    Post subject: How to kill off xp partition, without killing my w7? Reply with quote
Ok, the boot.mgr is on xp. If I just delete it, I am positive I won't be able to boot. How do I go about getting rid of the xp, and not killing w7?
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 12:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Did you install 7 after XP? Pretty sure XP's bootloader wouldn't recognize later OSes...
You can "reinstall" the 7 bootloader from inside or recovery prompt on DVD and commands like "bootrec /fixmbr", "bootrec /fixboot", "bootrec /rebuildbdc".
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 2:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ok I just deleted xp and did a fix install of w7. Everything is cool.

BTW, when you install w7 side by side with xp, it makes the w7 partition the "boot", and leaves xp as system. Now it just has the boot manager on a 100mb partition thats hidden but shows up as system on most disc manager programs. I guess its an idiot protection.
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