I kept Windows XP installed on my first partition when installing Windows 7. Now I decided I really don't need it any longer, so how can I get rid of it? I can certainly format that partition, but how can I remove the boot entry?
And what would happen if that partition vanished, e.g. by turning it into a Linux one or by using gparted to add the freed space to my Win 7 partition; can Windows 7 cope with such a partition table modification?
Answer
You'll need to manually remove the WinXP entry from the windows 7 boot menu. In older windows, that was done by editing boot.ini. In windows 7 you run bcdedit in a sysadmin terminal. Here's one of many links on how to remove a Win7 boot menu entry:
If you added Linux to re-use that partition without removing it, it would still remain on the windows 7 menu (but you would probably have the Linux Grub boot manager instead of windows boot, so it would be 2 step boot to get there).
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