Solved Removing Old OS Partition

The Nude Dude

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good day folks, in a nutshell. my roommate did a thorough wipe of his c drive, then installed 7 then 8.1.1. for some reason he cannot boot in to the win 7 partition. after building up and getting 8.1.1 setup just the way he wants it he doesn't care about the 7 partition any more. i know i can go in delete the 7 partition, stretch 8.1.1 to fill the entire drive, but what i'm not sure of is if the boot info is on 7 or 8.1.1. i do know that once 8.1.1 is the only os i can go into msconfig and delete the win 7 entry. note since both partitions were created using partition wizard there is not 100mb reserved partition, so the boot information is either on 7 or 8.1.1. i also have a copy of Acronis True Image 2014 Premium. any help would be greatly appreciated.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    8.1.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    2635599
    CPU
    Core2Duo E8400
    Motherboard
    Asus Rampage Formula
    Memory
    4gigs DDR2 @ 6400
    Graphics Card(s)
    Nvidia GTX 8800
    Sound Card
    Creative X-Fi Extreme Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    HP W237ld
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080
    Hard Drives
    Samsung EVO 850 120 Gig SSD
    ST31500541AS 1.5 Terabytes
    WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 1 Terabyte
    2 - ST3500830AS 500 Gigs
    PSU
    thermaltake 650 Watt
    Internet Speed
    120 MBPS
    Browser
    Cyberfox 36.0.4
    Antivirus
    Bitdefender Internet Security 2014
    Other Info
    USB 3.0 PCI-E Card
Hi there
I believe I posted this before so what I'd do is the following

1) Backup your current system with Acronis (don't backup the W7 system) and ensure you have a Bootable Acronis system -- you can create it from within running windows using Acronis.

2) get into command in administrator mode

3) type the following commands in

a) DISKPART
b) LIST DISK -- you'll see a list of disks - select the one you want to use -- probably in this case Disk 0 or Disk 1

c) SELCT DISK 0 (assuming it's HDD nr 0)
d) CLEAN
e) CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
f)ACTIVE ===> do this or HDD won't boot
g) format fs=ntfs quick
h) Assign

Now boot your Acronis system and restore the W8.1 backup

Boot it -- it might fail in which case simply use Windows recovery to Repair system - but it probably will be OK. (You don't need to create a Windows recovery disk if you've got a Windows install disk - that will work just fine.

Job done.

To re-size partitions download GPARTED or any Linux live CD which will have GPARTED in it -- now simply re-size your partition(s) at will.

Cheers
jimbo
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Linux Centos 7, W8.1, W7, W2K3 Server W10
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Monitor(s) Displays
    1 X LG 40 inch TV
    Hard Drives
    SSD's * 3 (Samsung 840 series) 250 GB
    2 X 3 TB sata
    5 X 1 TB sata
    Internet Speed
    0.12 GB/s (120Mb/s)
thanks for the info, but i'm pretty sure i just need to delete the win 7 partition using partition wizard, stretch out the win 8.1.1 partition to fill the drive, make sure it's still marked active, reboot, msconfig to remove the win 7 entry. basically i'm just aking for confirmation on the procedure and which os the boot info is actually in since there is no reserved partition.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    8.1.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    2635599
    CPU
    Core2Duo E8400
    Motherboard
    Asus Rampage Formula
    Memory
    4gigs DDR2 @ 6400
    Graphics Card(s)
    Nvidia GTX 8800
    Sound Card
    Creative X-Fi Extreme Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    HP W237ld
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080
    Hard Drives
    Samsung EVO 850 120 Gig SSD
    ST31500541AS 1.5 Terabytes
    WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 1 Terabyte
    2 - ST3500830AS 500 Gigs
    PSU
    thermaltake 650 Watt
    Internet Speed
    120 MBPS
    Browser
    Cyberfox 36.0.4
    Antivirus
    Bitdefender Internet Security 2014
    Other Info
    USB 3.0 PCI-E Card
I used EasyBCD to move boot partitions.

Have dual Linux and Windows 8.1.1 - on installation of the latter, boot was put onto my HDD instead of SSD on which I installed Windows...

Used EasyBCD the to move the boot partition - it will create it the old DOS type menu - but I ran bcdboot %windir% thereafter to get the Windows 8 boot menu back.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    PC-DOS v1.0
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    IBM
    CPU
    Intel 8088, 4.77MHz
    Memory
    16K, 640K max
    Graphics Card(s)
    What's that?
    Sound Card
    Not quite
    Screen Resolution
    80 X 24 text
    Hard Drives
    dual 160KB 5.25-inch disk drives
o.k. install acronis, activated it, made boot media, created drive image. restarted the system, went in with partition wizard, deleted the 7 partition, stretched the 8.1.1 to fill the entrire drive, made active, rebooted and nothing. so wiped the drive, booted to the acronis boot media and no mouse or key board. ended up just wiping the drive and starting from scratch. rgank for the suggestions anyway guys, very much appreciated.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    8.1.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    2635599
    CPU
    Core2Duo E8400
    Motherboard
    Asus Rampage Formula
    Memory
    4gigs DDR2 @ 6400
    Graphics Card(s)
    Nvidia GTX 8800
    Sound Card
    Creative X-Fi Extreme Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    HP W237ld
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080
    Hard Drives
    Samsung EVO 850 120 Gig SSD
    ST31500541AS 1.5 Terabytes
    WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 1 Terabyte
    2 - ST3500830AS 500 Gigs
    PSU
    thermaltake 650 Watt
    Internet Speed
    120 MBPS
    Browser
    Cyberfox 36.0.4
    Antivirus
    Bitdefender Internet Security 2014
    Other Info
    USB 3.0 PCI-E Card
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