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Although my active partition contains the old XP installation, the secanario described in
Removing old Vista partition, but it's the active, system partition
exactly matches mine. I finally need the space and want to get rid of that old and long unsused partition.
The way via Windows 7 DVD boot and revovery seemed to work, so I decided to give it a try.
Initial situation: 1. partition is WinXP mapped to drive X: in windows 7 2. partition is Win7 mapped to drive C: in windows 7
Arconis Disk Directory says parition 1 (XP) is "Active, System, Bootable", partition 2 is "Bootable". I made partition 2 the active one and then rebooted using Win7 DVD. As Andy mentioned it nedeed several reboots when Windows Repair found in error after the other until it finally said everything is ok.
However, when trying to boot from the HD, I now get:
"A disk read error occurred" "Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"
Does anyone have a clue what's missing?
Note that I (luckily) had not yet deleted the old XP partition, so I could change it back to be the active one and Windows 7 came back.
I'm scared to delete the XP partition since I do not understand what the problem is.
phunsoft
Posted 2014-05-05T20:19:31.313
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So you'd like to wipe out Windows XP and install Windows 7, using the entire disk for Windows 7, removing any trace of Windows XP? If so, then during the Windows 7 installation select the Advanced drive options and delete any existing partitions. Then install Windows 7. – joeqwerty – 2014-05-05T22:08:34.540
No, I had installed Win7 a while ago. Back then, I left the previous XP where it was (first primary partition) and installed Win7 in the second primary partition. As seen from Win7, its partition is drive C: and the old XP is drive X:. It is really the same situation as described in that old post I referred to. Just its XP not Vista in the first partition. – phunsoft – 2014-05-06T11:49:34.517