Deleting a partition.

My desktop computer is an HP that is several years old and it came with
Windows Vista. It had Vista on the C: drive and a D: drive acting as a
recovery partition.

Last year, I joyfully installed Windows 7 Ultimate. I resized the
existing drive to accommodate the new OS. Windows 7 is now C: and Vista
is D:

I'm done with Vista at this point and would like to delete all the data
and recover the partition space into Windows 7: c drive. What is the
best methodology for doing this?

TIA

"in Technicolor®" wrote in message
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My desktop computer is an HP that is several years old and it came with
Windows Vista. It had Vista on the C: drive and a D: drive acting as a
recovery partition.

Last year, I joyfully installed Windows 7 Ultimate. I resized the
existing drive to accommodate the new OS. Windows 7 is now C: and Vista
is D:

I'm done with Vista at this point and would like to delete all the data
and recover the partition space into Windows 7: c drive. What is the best
methodology for doing this?

TIA

1: Open the Start menu.
2: Right-click on "Computer" or "My Computer" button.
3: Select "Manage".
4: Click "Disk Management" in the left nav panel of the Computer Management
window.
5: Right-click the D: drive area in the central, visual drive table.
6: Select "Delete Volume" and authorise.
7: Right-click the C: drive area in the central, visual drive table.
8: Select "Extend Volume" and confirm the default (maximum available) amount
of space to extend by.

Hope this helps

Andy

On 4/18/2010 4:24 AM, Andy wrote:


"in Technicolor®" wrote in message
...
My desktop computer is an HP that is several years old and it came
with Windows Vista. It had Vista on the C: drive and a D: drive acting
as a recovery partition.

Last year, I joyfully installed Windows 7 Ultimate. I resized the
existing drive to accommodate the new OS. Windows 7 is now C: and
Vista is D:

I'm done with Vista at this point and would like to delete all the
data and recover the partition space into Windows 7: c drive. What is
the best methodology for doing this?

TIA

1: Open the Start menu.
2: Right-click on "Computer" or "My Computer" button.
3: Select "Manage".
4: Click "Disk Management" in the left nav panel of the Computer
Management window.
5: Right-click the D: drive area in the central, visual drive table.
6: Select "Delete Volume" and authorise.
7: Right-click the C: drive area in the central, visual drive table.
8: Select "Extend Volume" and confirm the default (maximum available)
amount of space to extend by.

Hope this helps

Andy

About the only thing I would add is to make sure you have a valid backup
of your existing C: drive in case something goes drastically wrong, such
as a power glitch or failure during any of the above.