Delete Windows 7 and make Windows 8 default.

Before addressing my issue, I'm going to give a brief summary of how my system is set up. My hard disk is a basic one. It has three primary partitions and one extended partition. Windows 7 is installed on a primary partition, and Windows 8 is installed on the third logical drive of the extended partition.

So here is what I want to do. I want to remove Windows 7 completely, and move Windows 8 onto the primary partition which was occupied by Windows 7. In other words, I want to clone my current Windows 8 drive onto the primary partition without I don't messing up my boot.

And don't worry about Fedora being there. Its non-bootable at the moment (I was having issues with Grub booting Windows, so I deleted it and restored the Windows bootloader), and I can delete it if absolutely necessary.

How about this, Make a restore disk from your windows 8 system, Fdisk your hard drive and restore the win8 system.

Booting into Fedora isn't something that I'm looking forward to.

You don't have to boot into Linux. In win8, go to control panel > recovery > and go through creating a recovery drive. It needs a small USB drive to boot from and a large USB or external drive to store the win8 image on, at least that is the way I did it. I had an old 1GB thumb drive that is now my win8 recovery boot device and a 10GB image on my external hard drive.

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All Linux code must be deleted using the CLEAN ALL command.As you have had linux on the HD you need do a Clean all & full format.

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Do a full clean in command prompt.

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@theog Deleting Linux is fine. But I do not want to do a clean install. I want to clone my current Windows 8 to the partition which is currently occupied by Windows 7.

@drowe Your method seems interesting. I have two USB drives, 1 GB storage each. I have a 500 GB external hard disk as well, and I know how to create a bootable partition on it (That's how I installed Windows 8). Can you elaborate a little further? Its still unclear to me.

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@drowe I have a Win8 installation image on my HDD, but installing from that would give me a clean install. I want everything from my current Windows setup (iTunes, Chrome, the customization etc) to be cloned to the primary partition.

@drowe I have a Win8 installation image on my HDD, but installing from that would give me a clean install. I want everything from my current Windows setup (iTunes, Chrome, the customization etc) to be cloned to the primary partition.

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When you go through the recovery, you are given a chance to create a system image, the same as in win7. I did this a few days ago so I'm going from memory, but as I recall it lets you make a bootable usb (your 1gb) and then it lets you create a system restore image (?) on your attached 500gb drive. It creates a file called CustomRefresh.wim that is used by the boot usb you made to restore the image. I'm sure you can find better directions on here someplace, sorry I can't remember all the steps. I do remember it was very easy to do once I figured out it was in "recovery" rather than "backup".

I've done that already, and I've already installed Windows 8 on the primary partition so that I have essentially two copies of Windows 8 running. But whenever I try to use the refresh image to restore my settings and apps on the newer install, it gives me an error with no error code (o.o)