As the new Windows 7 is achieving a general availability worldwide, you will definitely have the wish to uninstall the Release candidate installation. Such that you can enjoy the latest feature of the final release of the Windows 7 operating system. There are various editions available for this operating system like the Starter edition, Home Basic edition, Home Premium edition, Professional edition, and Ultimate edition. Also, most of you would be interested in running these pre-release versions in a dual boot configuration.
There are basically two separate, but yet, fundamentally identical approaches which are adopted in creating a new partition with Windows XP or Vista.
It should be clearly made understood that you could follow the steps, which are as explained below for removing the older Windows XP or Vista installations, while in a dual boot configuration and also favoring the Windows 7 Final.
Before beginning with the process, one thing you should keep in your mind is that all the collected documents, pictures, songs, videos and others on the Windows partition you are deleting will be lost. If you have not taken a backup yet, then you perform this step before proceeding.
Now let us find the way of removing Windows 7 using Windows Vista: Currently if you are running Windows Vista, then you make use of its built in tools for modifying your hard drive partitions. You can do so by making use of a third party utility. To repair potential boot loader complications you need to be sure to have your Vista DVD handy.
begin with booting up Windows Vista, followed by clicking the Start menu and entering diskmgmt.msc into the search bar. A Disk Management window will open showing all the basic information about the drives attached to your computer.
Then you need to right click the partition, which was previously created for the new Windows 7 and then you have to select to Delete Volume. Now you will be able to see unallocated space on your hard drive where Windows 7 had resided earlier.
Now you have to right click on the original and the only remaining partition, and then selecting Extend Volume, followed by entering the total capacity of the unallocated space.
Repair Windows Vista boot loader: At this point you may or may not be able to boot into Vista as you've just potentially botched your boot loader.
You can split your Windows Vista DVD, and can opt to boot from it and after the initial loading process is completed, there will be three options available like: Install now, What to know before installing Windows and Repair your computer. You can opt for the third option, which is to repair your computer.
After this it will ask you to choose a recovery tool. Now you have to choose the startup recovery option. Within a very short duration the issue will be resolved. At this point you need to reboot and remove the Windows Vista DVD used.
There are basically two separate, but yet, fundamentally identical approaches which are adopted in creating a new partition with Windows XP or Vista.
It should be clearly made understood that you could follow the steps, which are as explained below for removing the older Windows XP or Vista installations, while in a dual boot configuration and also favoring the Windows 7 Final.
Before beginning with the process, one thing you should keep in your mind is that all the collected documents, pictures, songs, videos and others on the Windows partition you are deleting will be lost. If you have not taken a backup yet, then you perform this step before proceeding.
Now let us find the way of removing Windows 7 using Windows Vista: Currently if you are running Windows Vista, then you make use of its built in tools for modifying your hard drive partitions. You can do so by making use of a third party utility. To repair potential boot loader complications you need to be sure to have your Vista DVD handy.
begin with booting up Windows Vista, followed by clicking the Start menu and entering diskmgmt.msc into the search bar. A Disk Management window will open showing all the basic information about the drives attached to your computer.
Then you need to right click the partition, which was previously created for the new Windows 7 and then you have to select to Delete Volume. Now you will be able to see unallocated space on your hard drive where Windows 7 had resided earlier.
Now you have to right click on the original and the only remaining partition, and then selecting Extend Volume, followed by entering the total capacity of the unallocated space.
Repair Windows Vista boot loader: At this point you may or may not be able to boot into Vista as you've just potentially botched your boot loader.
You can split your Windows Vista DVD, and can opt to boot from it and after the initial loading process is completed, there will be three options available like: Install now, What to know before installing Windows and Repair your computer. You can opt for the third option, which is to repair your computer.
After this it will ask you to choose a recovery tool. Now you have to choose the startup recovery option. Within a very short duration the issue will be resolved. At this point you need to reboot and remove the Windows Vista DVD used.
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