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Want to get rid of dual booting

Cyrus9008

Cyrus9008

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Hey guys I'm stuck at a dilemma right now. I am currently dual booting windows XP and win 7. I am finally ready to get rid of XP right now and I can't even boot into it anyways but am scared if I format the drive while in my windows 7 OS and reboot I will have screwed up the boot sequence and won't be able to boot into windows 7.

I've done something similar before where I just went into windows explorer and formatted one of the dual bootable drives and ended up not being able to boot into any OS.

I have 4 HDDs and I want to do a ton of cleaning and organization but am scared to make the first move. How do I format the one drive and be 100% positive that I won't nuke the boot sequence and screw up my whole computer?
 
know any free way to do it, I'd rather not spend 25 dollars on something I'm going to use once at most. The 2 OS's I used to have on here where I screwed up my installation was XP and win2000. Would I be able to just delete the old XP OS by any chance?
 
I updated my post. I tried linking directly to the free download but they redirect it back to the main page.

Scroll to the bottom and you'll see the link to download it free for non-commercial use.

You should use this, then once you have it looking correct (i.e. booting to Windows 7 with the 2000 and/or XP entries removed) then try it out by rebooting, and once it is working properly delete the partitions or format.
 
Also is there anyway to clone everything on this HDD and move it to another HDD? The other HDD is faster so I'd rather move my current OS to that one. Anyway to do it?
 
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