I have XP installed on my primary partition (which device manager indicates
as the system partition), and I have vista on a logical partition. I want to
delete the XP partition, and just have vista. Is it possible to deete the
system partition? From what i was reading about uninstalling on multiboot
systems, it seems I might have problems if I uninstall my system partition.
Is there a work around, or do i need to install vista from stratch?

Hi,

If you remove the system partition, you will have to boot with the Vista
disk and do a startup repair. The system partition is the active one that
the mbr on the booted hard drive looks to for the bootloader files. You will
need to reload the boot files and redesignate the volume housing Vista as
the active one (you can do this in disk manager prior).

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"DJCOX" <DJCOX@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news38B0775-B65A-4A71-8A98-D7176224A58F@microsoft.com...
>I have XP installed on my primary partition (which device manager indicates
> as the system partition), and I have vista on a logical partition. I want
> to
> delete the XP partition, and just have vista. Is it possible to deete the
> system partition? From what i was reading about uninstalling on multiboot
> systems, it seems I might have problems if I uninstall my system
> partition.
> Is there a work around, or do i need to install vista from stratch?

Thanks for your help, but one more silly question....How do I redesignate the
volume to active in disk management?

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If you remove the system partition, you will have to boot with the Vista
> disk and do a startup repair. The system partition is the active one that
> the mbr on the booted hard drive looks to for the bootloader files. You will
> need to reload the boot files and redesignate the volume housing Vista as
> the active one (you can do this in disk manager prior).
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "DJCOX" <DJCOX@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news38B0775-B65A-4A71-8A98-D7176224A58F@microsoft.com...
> >I have XP installed on my primary partition (which device manager indicates
> > as the system partition), and I have vista on a logical partition. I want
> > to
> > delete the XP partition, and just have vista. Is it possible to deete the
> > system partition? From what i was reading about uninstalling on multiboot
> > systems, it seems I might have problems if I uninstall my system
> > partition.
> > Is there a work around, or do i need to install vista from stratch?
>
>

Hi,

Right click the drive after opening diskmgmt.msc, the option will be
self-evident.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"DJCOX" <DJCOX@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:17EAFD2E-73BA-4853-8254-F3DE09232EAC@microsoft.com...
> Thanks for your help, but one more silly question....How do I redesignate
> the
> volume to active in disk management?
>
> "Rick Rogers" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> If you remove the system partition, you will have to boot with the Vista
>> disk and do a startup repair. The system partition is the active one that
>> the mbr on the booted hard drive looks to for the bootloader files. You
>> will
>> need to reload the boot files and redesignate the volume housing Vista as
>> the active one (you can do this in disk manager prior).
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>>
>> "DJCOX" <DJCOX@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news38B0775-B65A-4A71-8A98-D7176224A58F@microsoft.com...
>> >I have XP installed on my primary partition (which device manager
>> >indicates
>> > as the system partition), and I have vista on a logical partition. I
>> > want
>> > to
>> > delete the XP partition, and just have vista. Is it possible to deete
>> > the
>> > system partition? From what i was reading about uninstalling on
>> > multiboot
>> > systems, it seems I might have problems if I uninstall my system
>> > partition.
>> > Is there a work around, or do i need to install vista from stratch?
>>
>>

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:10:01 -0700, DJCOX
<DJCOX@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have XP installed on my primary partition (which device manager indicates
>as the system partition), and I have vista on a logical partition. I want to
>delete the XP partition, and just have vista. Is it possible to deete the
>system partition? From what i was reading about uninstalling on multiboot
>systems, it seems I might have problems if I uninstall my system partition.
>Is there a work around, or do i need to install vista from stratch?

If Vista is installed in a logical volume in the extended partition,
it can never become a system partition, which has to be an active
primary partition.