How to unpartition a HDD

seanin4711

Hi all,
I have XP loaded on the majority of a HDD and Win7 on the rest but I want to take win7 partition away (and keep the xp freeing up the win7 space on hdd)
any pointers?
originally partitioned with easeus.
attached a screen grab
thanks in advance

jeffk

Basically you’ll have to delete the 7 partition and then merge that free space into the XP partition.

seanin4711

jeffk wrote: »

Basically you’ll have to delete the 7 partition and then merge that free space into the XP partition.

can you start me off?
thanks

GreySquirrel

seanin4711 wrote: »

Hi all,
I have XP loaded on the majority of a HDD and Win7 on the rest but I want to take win7 partition away (and keep the xp freeing up the win7 space on hdd)
any pointers?
originally partitioned with easeus.
attached a screen grab
thanks in advance

Delete the logical drive, then delete the extended partition, the extend the c: drive

seanin4711

as above,i think i found it!
do i
1 right click on the HDD icon.disk 1 mbr
2 delete all partitions
3 then delete extended partition
4 extend c:
am I close?

jeffk

1. As far as I remember you right click on the partition you want to delete
2. Then it should say delete, you then select his
3. You then have your original partition and then a free space gap of the rest of the drive
4. Then I think it’s extend
5. You drag that guide across till there is little or no space left

I hope you get the idea from this; I haven’t done this in some time. But this is very close to how you would do it

jeffk

Here is a a link with some screen shots of an earlier version, but not much apart from the graphics have changed

http://www.partition-tool.com/resource/manage-partition/increase-c-drive-partition.htm

seanin4711

before I try to delete the partition i was in at the time!!!

jeffk

seanin4711 wrote: »

before I try to delete the partition i was in at the time!!!

A simple mistake, so your sorted now?

seanin4711

Thanks
j:D