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20-Nov-2009, 05:09 PM #1
Removing a windows partition
I recently received an old laptop from a colleague of mine, as he no longer has use for such an old laptop. (dell inspiron 700m 5 years old!) I am currently going to give it to my son, for tampering as he is an avid computer programmer, and is currently working on compiling his own version of arch Linux based on the laptops specifications. When i started up clearing out the laptop of useless junk, i found two partitions on it both containing windows XP. The second partition (10gb partition) contained nothing on it, except for a clean install of XP. Is there any way i can uninstall that copy of XP from that second partition, while keeping the main partition in tact?

*EDIT* I want to remove the second partition, the 10gb one.

The two partitions as is followed.

Partition one: C drive: 45gb total space. 11.6gb used

Partition two: E drive: 10.6 gb total space. 1.1gb used

Dell inspiron 700m
pentium 4 (centrino mobile) 1.7ghz
512mb ram
54gb HD
intel integrated graphics 945 extreme


All help is much obliged as i'm new to this sector of computing.
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20-Nov-2009, 08:52 PM #2
If you are logged into the first XP partition, it is easy enough to do. I would recommend making a backup of your important files before doing this, though.

Right-click My Computer > Manage > Disk Management. Right-click on the 10GB partition, and select 'Delete Partition'. It will ask to confirm that you want to delete the partition.

Next, to change the boot.ini file. Go to Start > Run, and type in "msconfig" without the quotes. Click on the BOOT.INI tab, and click the 'Check All Boot Paths' button. Follow the prompts from there, and you're done.

Check to make sure that you can log back in once you're done, as well.
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