Deleting a partition.

[in Technicolor®]

My desktop computer is an HP that is several years old and it came with

Windows Vista. It had Vista on the C: drive and a D: drive acting as a

recovery partition.



Last year, I joyfully installed Windows 7 Ultimate. I resized the

existing drive to accommodate the new OS. Windows 7 is now C: and Vista

is D:



I'm done with Vista at this point and would like to delete all the data

and recover the partition space into Windows 7: c drive. What is the

best methodology for doing this?



TIA

 

[Andy]

"in Technicolor®" wrote in message

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> My desktop computer is an HP that is several years old and it came with

> Windows Vista. It had Vista on the C: drive and a D: drive acting as a

> recovery partition.

>

> Last year, I joyfully installed Windows 7 Ultimate. I resized the

> existing drive to accommodate the new OS. Windows 7 is now C: and Vista

> is D:

>

> I'm done with Vista at this point and would like to delete all the data

> and recover the partition space into Windows 7: c drive. What is the best

> methodology for doing this?

>

> TIA



1: Open the Start menu.

2: Right-click on "Computer" or "My Computer" button.

3: Select "Manage".

4: Click "Disk Management" in the left nav panel of the Computer Management

window.

5: Right-click the D: drive area in the central, visual drive table.

6: Select "Delete Volume" and authorise.

7: Right-click the C: drive area in the central, visual drive table.

8: Select "Extend Volume" and confirm the default (maximum available) amount

of space to extend by.



Hope this helps



Andy

 

[GlowingBlueMist]

On 4/18/2010 4:24 AM, Andy wrote:

>

>

> "in Technicolor®" wrote in message

> news:hqcuda$66s$1@speranza.aioe.org...

>> My desktop computer is an HP that is several years old and it came

>> with Windows Vista. It had Vista on the C: drive and a D: drive acting

>> as a recovery partition.

>>

>> Last year, I joyfully installed Windows 7 Ultimate. I resized the

>> existing drive to accommodate the new OS. Windows 7 is now C: and

>> Vista is D:

>>

>> I'm done with Vista at this point and would like to delete all the

>> data and recover the partition space into Windows 7: c drive. What is

>> the best methodology for doing this?

>>

>> TIA

>

> 1: Open the Start menu.

> 2: Right-click on "Computer" or "My Computer" button.

> 3: Select "Manage".

> 4: Click "Disk Management" in the left nav panel of the Computer

> Management window.

> 5: Right-click the D: drive area in the central, visual drive table.

> 6: Select "Delete Volume" and authorise.

> 7: Right-click the C: drive area in the central, visual drive table.

> 8: Select "Extend Volume" and confirm the default (maximum available)

> amount of space to extend by.

>

> Hope this helps

>

> Andy



About the only thing I would add is to make sure you have a valid backup

of your existing C: drive in case something goes drastically wrong, such

as a power glitch or failure during any of the above.