deleting VISTA - how to???

[liquidmonkey]

hello,

this concerns 2 HDD's, each of which is partitioned once.

HDD1 - 1TB
C:\ - 200gig has VISTA
D:\ - 800gig has just files

HDD2 - 1TB
J:\ - 200gig has win7
H:\ - 800gig has just files


i have recently installed win7 (which is AWESOME!!!) on J:\ and have my earlier VISTA install on C:\.

i want to get rid of the VISTA part as its useless now and is just taking space away from me but when i tried to format C:\, the 'format' option was not available. i'm trying to do this using win7's 'computer management' system and right clicking on C:\.

1 - how can i best go about removing that partition and/or formating that partition????

2 - is there anything i need to do before removing the older VISTA installation? are there any shared files that maybe the new win7 install would use? i'm referring to documents and settings folders and such.


hope that wasn't too confusing and thanks for any input!!!

 

[linkin]

use an install CD to format the drive that vista is on and the just eject the CD and reboot. voila

 

[liquidmonkey]

sorry, forgot to mention i don't have a cd-drive ;(

 

[Mr soft]

You should be able to just boot into win 7 , open my computer right click on the partition and format. I´m running XP and Win 7. When I had to delete and reinstall the different Win 7 builds, this is all I did.

 

[liquidmonkey]

You should be able to just boot into win 7 , open my computer right click on the partition and format. I´m running XP and Win 7. When I had to delete and reinstall the different Win 7 builds, this is all I did.

i'm 99.9% sure i can do that (although i can't (windows stops me) in computer management which is weird) but my MAIN CONCERN is that i'm not going to delete any SHARED FILES that vista and win7 might share????? even though they are completely separate physical HDD's, my paranoia is taking over

 

[Intel_man]

There are no shared files between TWO operating systems.


Just move your personal files to the other partition before you format.

 

[liquidmonkey]

also, i have tried to format the drive now from 'my computer' but windows would not let me
not sure what to do now...

error ---
'windows cannot complete the format'

 

[Intel_man]

You need to format with the bootup disks.

 

[Concordedly]

Couldn't you just use a freeware disk partitioner such as this?

http://partitionlogic.org.uk/

 

[liquidmonkey]

You need to format with the bootup disks.

not sure if anyone else has this in their country but MS stopped shipping windows disks with computers a while back. so no disks for me, PLUS, i don't have a cd-burner.

 

[Intel_man]

not sure if anyone else has this in their country but MS stopped shipping windows disks with computers a while back. so no disks for me, PLUS, i don't have a cd-burner.

Do you have your Win 7 disk? If so, use that and format.

 

[Concordedly]

I really think you could just re-partition with that software. I've used partition-ers and they work well. It will allow you to format the partition first and then combine it with another partition if you need/want to.

I apologize didn't read about not having a disc drive... Think this freeware should do it.
http://www.compuapps.com/download/Swissknife/swissknife.htm

 

[Concordedly]

Sorry I didn't read you didn't have a disc drive. Try this freeware program. It should run in windows without needing a disc.

http://www.compuapps.com/download/Swissknife/swissknife.htm

Sorry for double-post. Firefox was hanging up...