How to delete Windows 7 RC

alright folks how would i go about uninstalling windows 7 RC? I'm dual booting vista and windows 7. Windows 7 is on a separate partition. Would I simply just go to disk management from Vista and delete the partition? Will my boot-menu not show up anymore asking me what i what to run since i will only have one OS?

 

Boot into Vista and delete windows 7 folder!

 

I would clean install Vista because of the want to delete partition for disk performance. When you boot from Vista OS disk select delete partition and then format disk. if you want to keep applications, etc. without redownloading, make a disk with them on it.

 

clean install of vista is out of the question right now its not my computer so i dont want to erase information.

Where is the windows 7 folder?

 

try this:


Back up your wanted data.(important)

1st, you will need to boot to Windows 7. (or the last operating system installed)

Click on START/Control Panel/Administrative Tools/System Configuration and click on the "boot" tab.

Delete the entry for Windows 7.

Re-boot and let Vista start.

Open Explorer and re-format the Windows 7 drive.

hope that works.

 

I strongly suggest a full format and reinstall. Then you will need to defragment your drive. It will surely make the system run smoother. THe old OS might slow things down and be a HDD hog!

 

I'm not sure why people are saying that having an unused partition is going to slow the system down.

 

Why?

Your advice would be appropriate if he'd installed Win7 on top of Vista but he installed it on a separate partition.

 

A format is unnecessary. Removing the Windows 7 entry from the bootloader and then formatting the Windows 7 partition is all that needs to be done. Degfragmenting the Vista partition is only necessary if it is currently heavily fragmented.

To the OP: here is a guide on how to remove Windows 7:

http://www.techspot.com/guides/144-removing-windows7/

 

so im following this guide and it says after i delete the windows 7 volume my boot screen might not work. I only have a vista 64bit disc for my other computer. The current computer has a 32 bit version of vista. So my question is could I use 64disc to repair my boot screen if it screws up.

 

Just delete the Win 7 partition and join it with the existing Vista partition using Disk management. I had done it twice.

 

So it won't screw up my boot screen? The article said it could. Also my windows 7 partition is arranged as the first one on the screen and vista is the second. So when i dont do anything on the boot screen it defaults to W7

 

It won't screw up the boot screen. I assume that you had installed Win 7 after Vista. You can change the default boot OS using MSCONFIG.

 

You could also go the long way, and within Windows 7, go to the Computer properties>>Advanced system settings>Startup and Recovery settings>change the default OS to Vista from the drop-down menu>OK>OK. Then, after deletion, if the boot screen still shows W7 as an option, you just need to modify the boot.ini in msconfig or through startup settings.

 

or use easy bcd. very good program for dual booting.

 

alright well i deleted the windows 7 volume and extended the free space back to my vista volume but when i boot screen pops up it still asks me which OS i want to run even though the windows 7 has been deleted. How do I fix this?

 

Download EasyBCD.

Click on the manage bootloader tab, then click write mbr (with the reinstall vista bootloader)

 

Go to msconfig, click the boot tab, select Windows 7 and delete it.