[sandesign]

Hi to everyone,

I'm new to the forum. My first question is about a dual boot machine. It's a HP Pavilion dv8320us notebook that came with Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. I purchased Windows Vista Home Premium about 3 months ago and I love it . I did a dual boot with the two systems with no problem. Vista has been great, all my programs work perfectly (faster than XP) and i'ts very fast. Since i did the dual boot installation I haven't booted to XP, so I don't need it anymore.

What's the best way to get rid of XP and keep only Vista?

Thanks for the help...

PS: sorry for my english...

[NY2NV]

Here's the instructions on removing XP from an XP/Vista dual boot.
Link > http://www.syschat.c...-boot-1927.html
Your English is fine, welcome.
Before you follow those instructions read the comments that follow on that page, thier may be more to research as to Drive designations. I'll try to find more complete instruction's.

This post has been edited by NY2NV: 25 May 2007 - 05:48 PM

[sandesign]

NY2NV, on May 25 2007, 12:41 PM, said:

Here's the instructions on removing XP from an XP/Vista dual boot.
Link > http://www.syschat.c...-boot-1927.html
Your English is fine, welcome.
Before you follow those instructions read the comments that follow on that page, thier may be more to research as to Drive designations. I'll try to find more complete instruction's.

Thanks for your answer, I'll try that.

[NY2NV]

You may want to look at this before you start, the problem will be XP is most likely your system drive.
Link > http://www.pro-netwo...6697ff14e505dcc

[sandesign]

NY2NV, on May 25 2007, 01:06 PM, said:

You may want to look at this before you start, the problem will be XP is most likely your system drive.
Link > http://www.pro-netwo...6697ff14e505dcc

Thanks for the link, but I'm little scared about this.... I have two HD, 2 x 80 Gb. The first HD has two partitions, one for XP and another for the HP Recovery partition. The second has a clean install of Vista. If I follow the instructions of any of this links there will be a problem?

[NY2NV]

I'll be real honest with you (should have said this before) my system is very similar to yours. I'm also a little hesitant of creating a new problem as it all works quite well right now. Currently I'm looking at all options as XP is the system drive. I'm considering pairing XP down, removing whatever I can and shrinking the volume of the partition and creating a new partition.
If I find any good suggestions I'll post them here.

This post has been edited by NY2NV: 25 May 2007 - 09:09 PM

[sandesign]

NY2NV, on May 25 2007, 04:08 PM, said:

I'll be real honest with you (should have said this before) my system is very similar to yours. I'm also a little hesitant of creating a new problem as it all works quite well right now. Currently I'm looking at all options as XP is the system drive. I'm considering pairing XP down, removing whatever I can and shrinking the volume of the partition and creating a new partition.
If I find any good suggestions I'll post them here.

Thanks for the information, maybe I'll wait some time before doing this, my system is running fine right now. I thought It was easier to do...

[NY2NV]

Here's what I ended up doing. Since XP was on a large HD with the HP recovery partition, first I deleted a number of programs I had duplicates in VISTA, nothing related to the XP OS.
Then I defragged the XP drive and in the disk management screen (located in the Control Panel under Administrative Tools then choose Computer Managment) I right clicked the XP drive and choose the "Shrink Volume" command. Reduced the XP partition to 80gb (Vista choose the size). I rebooted XP to check that it worked.
That gave me 150gb unallocated space, which I made 2 partitions. Now I have 2 new partions, one I labeled Photos the other Media.