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MBR question - deleting Windows XP volume

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max789

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Hi

My PC has two disks, one with Windows 7 and the other Windows XP. I took care to attach only one drive to the mobo when installing each OS and Windows choice can be altered via F12 during booting.

I now decide to finally let go of Windows XP completely on this computer, and would delete the Windows XP volume on the second drive whilst running Windows 7.

I wonder if the master boot code in the second drive's MBR will be altered/deleted accordingly when I delete the XP volume, or is there a better way to "uninstall" Windows XP completely?

Thanks in advance for your feedback!
 
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Seeing as you have installed the oses when only one drive was attached, all you should have to do is format that xp drive and good to go.
 
Thanks for your reply, Dahak.

I wasn't clear in my post on one detail. I short-stroked the second drive and installed XP in a small partition at the front. Now I'd prefer to delete only this partition, and to keep the data in other partitions, without formatting the whole drive.
 
just go in disk management in windows 7 and delete the partition where you installed windows xp, but don't delete your data partition.
 
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