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    Vista Express Upgrade on SZ360 P/C

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by megamoz, May 8, 2008.

  1. megamoz

    megamoz Notebook Consultant

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    Hello,

    Since SP1 is out now, I have decided to use Vista Express Upgrade on my SZ360P/C. Everything went well, It seems everything works fine. However I noticed almost half the size of hard disk is full. So I decided to remove partition of XP (I assume stil remains) and ex-XP files.

    Could anyone advise on deleting partition without damaging the existing structure of the hard drive?

    Thank you.
     
    megamoz, May 8, 2008
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  2. miner

    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    The built in Vista partition manager should be able to delete and expand your main partition. You can access it through Computer(right click)-> Manage-> Disk Management unless ofcourse Sony has out in something which might mess the process.

    BTW, if you did an upgrade install and selected to the 'custom' option, then Vista creates a Windows.old folder in C: which contains backup of all files and folders in XP. You might want to check and delete that if you want to recover that space. Ofcourse make sure you have all the data you need before deleting this folder.
     
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