MightyJordan Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 I'm trying to delete a partition on my hard drive that contains my old Vista installation. It was originally the main partition, then I created a new one for Windows 7 (during the beta), and when Vista started going a bit hayware (and when the RTM version of 7 came out), I moved over the the 7 partition. I've spent the last few months continuously shrinking the Vista partition then moving files over to the 7 one, and so on, and I finally moved all the files over a couple of hours ago, so now, I want to delete the Vista partition. The problem is when I try to delete it in Computer Management, I get the error message "Delete is not allowed on the current boot, system, pagefile, crashdump or hibernation volume". The status for both partitions are: Seven (C:) - Healthy (Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition) Vista (D:) - Healthy (System, Primary Partition) Does anyone know how I can delete the Vista partition? In terms of programs, I've got EASEUS Partition Manager Professional v4, and I've tried that, but the Delete option is blanked out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xilo Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 Since your Windows 7 is already set to primary, boot, and active (might need to change it to a system partition), you don't have much to do. Get a gparted livecd, boot it up, and delete the Vista partition. You can then resize the Windows 7 partition. This can take a LONG time. After that's finish and you reboot, Windows 7 will complain and do a disk check. I had the same scenario when I was dual booting with Windows XP to test out Windows 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MightyJordan Posted January 12, 2010 Author Share Posted January 12, 2010 Windows 7 will complain and do a disk check. Will it still boot up fine if I decide to skip the disk check? I don't want to go through it again, as the last one took several hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xilo Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 Will it still boot up fine if I decide to skip the disk check? I don't want to go through it again, as the last one took several hours. Probably could but it's always good to let it run if you are ever messing with the disk partitioning on a drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiny521 Posted July 15, 2010 Share Posted July 15, 2010 :rolleyes: Ihi, you wish to delete the Vista partition? did you solve this problem, read this article, maybe you can know how to do ...Disk Partition Utility to Resize Partition for Vista, Windows 7, XP and Server Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casabel Posted July 15, 2010 Share Posted July 15, 2010 You can always use hiren boot cd to boot to dos and delete fast and easy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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