My only other thought is for him to grab his original Windows XP installation CD's, and boot off of the CD and then blow the partition out this way.
Then just reboot the machine and use partition magic to extend the partition to the rest of the drive. Is this the best way to do this? If you have any idea that would be great but of course I will not be able to sit in front of his laptop for a few days, as he is on the road a lot. After I wrote all the information above, I was able to try and work on my bosses laptop. So a little more background on this issue is required. My Boss along the way of expanding his Windows 7 Partition began deleting files on the XP Partition without my knowledge.
After making a full image of his laptop using the image creation tools within Windows 7, one of the 1st steps was to boot into Windows XP and copy the bootmgr. Only Windows 7 will boot. So I booted the PC back into Windows 7 and performed a search of the root directory of the Windows XP partition, to search for the bootmgr.
Well just my luck these files are nowhere to be found on the XP partition. Since XP Pro was installed in the 1st partition, my assumption is that these files should be located in the root directory of the XP partition. Since they are nowhere to be found, I am scratching my head wondering how Windows 7 boots without these files.
So I thought I would continue with the process outlined at the above tech republic website, and of course this failed miserably. Also one of the beginning items in the trascript below was to copy the bootmgr. Since these files were not available on by bosses computer, I copied the bootmgr. The benefit of this set-up was to allow a risk-free transition to the new OS, particularly for those who skipped Vista. But once you're committed to Windows 7 and want to get rid of XP altogether, how do you migrate away from the dual-boot configuration?
To do this, open My Computer from either Windows XP or Windows 7 and label or rename each logical drive with the name of the operating system that exists on that drive. This will help you to keep the partitions straight in the event that the assigned drive letters get swapped depending on which partition you are looking at. Next, you need to protect all your hard work by creating a System Image from within Windows 7's Backup and Restore.
This will give you a complete image of your hard disk that includes both the Windows XP and Windows 7 partitions in the dual-boot configuration. This way, if anything out of the ordinary were to occur as you follow the steps in this procedure, you will be able to return to your current configuration. Select Create a System Image, select your backup location, and then launch the operation to create an image of both drives.
You might want to make additional backups of your data files -- whatever gives you peace of mind. Now, when you create a dual-boot system and install Windows 7 on a second partition, Setup installs all the Windows Boot Manager files on the first partition, which in this case is the XP partition. So, the next step is to copy the Windows Boot Manager files onto the Windows 7 partition. Pay attention : You may fail to delete the selected partition if there is other program or utility is using this partition or you have open a window which is displaying contents of this partition.
In this situation, you just need to close all programs and windows that are using this partition and try to delete it again. When you delete a volume on your computer, it does not disappear from your PC but it will show as unallocated space under Disk Management. Sometimes, you may want to restore the deleted partition after deleting it by mistake. Right click the unallocated volume the deleted partition under Disk Management and click "New Simple Volume" option.
Click "Next" button on the New Simple Volume Wizard and then assign a drive letter to this partition. Tip : You can only restore the deleted partition by creating new volume, but you cannot get back the files deleted from the partition unless you can use data recovery software.
Without relying on Disk Management tool on Win 7, you can delete a partition by using Windows 7 partition manger. IM-Magic Partition Resizer Free is a completely free partition tool that can work on Windows 7 and other Windows platform to help delete partition, so you can use it whenever you want to perform a deletion on Windows 7 partition.
How to Delete a Windows 7 Partition You want to delete a partition on Windows 7 because it is corrupted and stops working normally? What You Should Know Before performing deletion on any partition, what you should know is that there is no way to remain all original data on the partition after deleting.
Now, follow the steps below to delete a volume under Windows 7 Disk Management : Step1. Delete Volume Is Grayed out on Windows 7 In most cases, you can follow the two steps above to delete a partition on your Windows 7 computer. When your system restarts, you'll see the Windows Boot Manager menu and Windows 7 should be selected.
Keep in mind that even though Windows XP is gone, the menu will still contain an item for it at this point. Allow the system to boot into Windows 7 and log in as you normally would. To do so, open a Command Prompt window with Administrator privileges. Right-click and select Run as Administrator. Then, type the command:. If you wish, you can configure the unallocated space as a simple volume and it will become drive D.
Right-click on the unallocated block and select the New Simple Volume command. On the other hand you can just leave it be for now, and in a upcoming article, I'll show you how to redistribute that unallocated space to drive C. Unfortunately, since the unallocated space is at the beginning of the disk, Windows 7's Disk Management tool is unable to extend drive C into that space.
In order for that to be possible, Disk Management requires that the unallocated space be at the end of the disk. Using this technique, you can essentially undo a dual-boot configuration and complete your migration from Windows XP to Windows 7.
Will you use this procedure? If you have any questions or comments concerning this technique, please take a moment to drop by the TechRepublic Community Forums and let us hear from you. TechRepublic's Windows Vista and Windows 7 Report newsletter, delivered every Friday, offers tips, news, and scuttlebutt on Vista and Windows 7, including a look at new features in the latest version of the Windows OS.
Automatically sign up today! Read the third article in this series, Capture unallocated disk space from an XP to Windows 7 dual-boot migration , and learn how to redistribute the unallocated space at the beginning of the hard disk back to drive C, thus making Windows 7 the first and only partition on the hard disk. Greg Shultz is a freelance Technical Writer. Previously, he has worked as Documentation Specialist in the software industry, a Technical Support Specialist in educational industry, and a Technical Journalist in the computer publishing industry.
Label the drives In order to make it easy to identify which partition is which throughout this operation, you need to make sure that each partition or drive is labeled.
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