Deleting Windows 7 from Dual Boot

After trying out the Windows 8 I decided to delete the Windows 7. When I went into the disk manager, I found that it appears that the Windows 8 partition has the MBR in it. But when I go to delete the W7 partition I get a warning message. I have attached it.

It's a partition that I created from the C: drive for W8. It was unallocated and then W8 install created it.

I just wanted to confirm whether I need to use EasyBCD to move the MBR or if I am safe in deleting the partition with the W7 on it.

Thanks in advance.

Jim

Heres the pic, sorry.

Initially I was surprised you wanted to keep win8 and remove win7.


You can't move the mbr - it isn't in a partition.

It isn't clear what is in use on your D partition.

Could be any number of things.

Perhaps log off and on and see if it is any different.

I would strongly recommend you make an image of your win7 partition before doing anything irreversible. Free version of Macrium or Paragon will do the job.

Macrium Reflect FREE Edition - Information and download

Backup & Recovery 2012 Free - PARAGON Software Group

It's odd. When I log onto W7, W7 partition is C: and W8 is D:. When I log onto W8, that is C: and W7 is D:.

The research I saw was that the MBR is on the first OS loaded. But when in W8 (c it shows crash, dump and all that stuff on c:.

I just don't want to be in a situation where I can't boot my laptop if I delete it.

Jim

See my previous post.

It is normal for the drive letters to be different when viewed from different os - don't worry about that.

When deleting win 7 as dual boot you must be logged on to win 8
Press win key + R type (msconfig) go to the tab (Boot) and delete win 7 from there.
Safe way…

That removes the boot menu entry only.

That’s the way I was told… now I see the problem.

FlightMedic - Why would you want to delete the Win 7 partition and not just format it? The only reason to delete it would be if you wanted to merge the empty (unallocated) space into the Win 8 partition, which isn't a straightforward procedure.

SIW2 said:

That removes the boot menu entry only.

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+ format the partition in which W7 resides.

Thanks

Hi guys,

I'm about to move from W7+W8 dual boot to W8 only, but I'm afraid my computer won't boot after I remove Disco 3(Disk 3) off my computer when I do that.
What happens is the boot record sits in my W7 disk(System Reserved), and when I remove that disk(will go to another computer) my computer won't boot anymore.
Here's how it is now:


I'm pretty sure that will screw up booting since the disk where the boot record sits is gonna be removed.
Will using the W8 disk to repair the boot suffice?

Thanks.

axellslade said:

Hi guys,

I'm about to move from W7+W8 dual boot to W8 only, but I'm afraid my computer won't boot after I remove Disco 3(Disk 3) off my computer when I do that.
What happens is the boot record sits in my W7 disk(System Reserved), and when I remove that disk(will go to another computer) my computer won't boot anymore.
Here's how it is now:
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I'm pretty sure that will screw up booting since the disk where the boot record sits is gonna be removed.
Will using the W8 disk to repair the boot suffice?

Thanks.

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Welcome to EightForums.

Physically disconnect the all Disks HD Drive.
Make the Windows 8 HDD, disk 0 & first HD boot in BIOS.Also connected to the first Sata port on the MOBO.
Than do a Auto Repair first,

How to do a Auto Repair:
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2843-automatic-repair-run-windows-8-a.html
Note: You may need to do startup repair 3 to 4 times.
Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times - Windows 7 Help Forums

theog said:

Welcome to EightForums.

Physically disconnect the all Disks HD Drive.
Make the Windows 8 HDD, disk 0 & first HD boot in BIOS.Also connected to the first Sata port on the MOBO.
Than do a Auto Repair first,

How to do a Auto Repair:
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2843-automatic-repair-run-windows-8-a.html
Note: You may need to do startup repair 3 to 4 times.
Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times - Windows 7 Help Forums

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Thanks theog, that worked like a charm!:thumb:

You are welcome, well done.