HDD Formatting Question

[wolf2009]

I have two OS installed on two different drives. One drive has Vista, other has Win 7.

Can I go into Vista and format the Win 7 drive without causing any trouble ?

 

[DarkOCean]

depends where is boot ini

 

[Asylum]

Should be able to go into computer management in vista and do whatever you want with the drive!!

 

[newtekie1]

Well, it depends really. If the drive boots from the Win7 partition, then no. Because Vista will not allow you to delete or format the partition that the computer boots from.

If it boots from the Vista partition, then you can delete the Win7 partition without problem. However, you will still be presented with the option to boot to Win7 during boot-up. To get rid of that, you need to edit your BCD. You can do this manually, but I have found the easiest method is to download VistaBootPro and use that to edit the BCD.

depends where is boot ini

There hasn't been a boot.ini since XP.

 

[wolf2009]

If it boots from the Vista partition, then you can delete the Win7 partition without problem. However, you will still be presented with the option to boot to Win7 during boot-up. To get rid of that, you need to edit your BCD. You can do this manually, but I have found the easiest method is to download VistaBootPro and use that to edit the BCD.

so i boot into vista, just format the win 7 partition. that works ?

then i vistabootpro to edit bcd and remove win 7 booting option ?

 

[newtekie1]

Yes, assuming your Vista partition is the primary partition.

 

[wolf2009]

Yes, assuming your Vista partition is the primary partition.

yes it is, but what if it was not ?

 

[newtekie1]

Then you need a 3rd party disk management software, that is bootable. Then you boot to the disk, arrange the partitions the way you want. Then boot to the Vista DVD and tell it to repair startup issues(sometime you have to do this twice).