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W7 upgrade

Ian in Northampton

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Posted June 7, 2011 at 4:52PM

I have a dual-boot XP/Vista machine that I'm planning to upgrade to Windows 7 Pro. When I dual-booted it, I partitioned the hard drive into two.

It has a Core 2 Duo processor and 3GB of memory, so performance shouldn't be an issue. However, before I start, I wanted to find out if anyone had any thoughts as to potential pitfalls, things to do/not do and so on. I plan to restore the hard drive to a single partition. How do I do that?

Obviously, I need to make sure I have W7 versions of all the necessary drivers - but any other guidance?

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Pineman100

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Posted June 7, 2011 at 5:58PM

Windows 7 has a built-in partition manager. Have a read through this.

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Ian in Northampton

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Posted June 7, 2011 at 6:29PM

Thanks Pineman. From that, do I take it that I could install W7 over the top of, say, XP on one partition and then, after W7 is installed, use its partition manager to restore the disk to a single partition?

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Pineman100

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Posted June 8, 2011 at 10:06AM

Yes, that's what I had in mind. To be honest I'm not absolutely sure whether the W7 partition manager allows you to delete and merge partitions, or whether it just allows them to be resized (I've never tried myself). But even if you can only resize, you could still load W7 on one partition, reduce the other partition to almost zero and increase the W7 partition to use up all the released disk space.

Others may be able to dot the i's and cross the t's for you.

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Ian in Northampton

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Posted June 8, 2011 at 3:17PM

Thanks Pineman.

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