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| | Removing 64 Bit Dual Boot Partition - How? Need some advice: I have XP Pro, Vista32 Bit Ultimate & 64Bit Ultimate installed on 3 seperate partitions on my hard drive. When I bought it I wanted to see which Vista I'd use, and was not sure, so I installed both initially. I really am satisfied with the 32 bit now, but do not want to screw up my boot up to either XP or Vista. Can I just delete my 64 Bit partition safely, and have no issues? Disk 0 - Basic 500GB XP 60Gb Vista32 75Gb Vista64 75Gb Data 250Gb I can provide more details if anyone can give me a tip on this... Thanks |
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| | Re: Removing 64 Bit Dual Boot Partition - How? Hi, Run diskmgmt.msc and check that the x64 volume is not the system volume. If it isn't, then deleting it is sufficient and you will simply need to alter your bootloader if it is the default OS. If it is, you will need to change the active volume first and set the bootloader there before removing the unwanted installation. -- 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 "Dan Ulrich" <DanUlrich@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23qaKgIL%23HHA.5980@xxxxxx Quote: > Need some advice: > > I have XP Pro, Vista32 Bit Ultimate & 64Bit Ultimate installed on 3 > seperate partitions on my hard drive. When I bought it I wanted to see > which Vista I'd use, and was not sure, so I installed both initially. > > I really am satisfied with the 32 bit now, but do not want to screw up my > boot up to either XP or Vista. > > Can I just delete my 64 Bit partition safely, and have no issues? > > Disk 0 - Basic 500GB > > XP 60Gb > Vista32 75Gb > Vista64 75Gb > Data 250Gb > > > I can provide more details if anyone can give me a tip on this... > > Thanks |
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| | Re: Removing 64 Bit Dual Boot Partition - How? After Ricks advice, you can use msconfig to remove the extra entry in your boot menu, alternately EasyBCD or VistaBootPro can be downloaded installed to do it. "Dan Ulrich" <DanUlrich@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23qaKgIL%23HHA.5980@xxxxxx Quote: > Need some advice: > > I have XP Pro, Vista32 Bit Ultimate & 64Bit Ultimate installed on 3 > seperate partitions on my hard drive. When I bought it I wanted to see > which Vista I'd use, and was not sure, so I installed both initially. > > I really am satisfied with the 32 bit now, but do not want to screw up my > boot up to either XP or Vista. > > Can I just delete my 64 Bit partition safely, and have no issues? > > Disk 0 - Basic 500GB > > XP 60Gb > Vista32 75Gb > Vista64 75Gb > Data 250Gb > > > I can provide more details if anyone can give me a tip on this... > > Thanks |
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