[FrankFrank]

Well I'm currently running my Dell Mini 10v with Windows XP (shows up as primary partition), and Windows 7 (shows up as secondary). What I want to do is format the Windows XP partition and combined that partition with my Windows 7 partition, making the Windows 7 partition the primary and the only one (for the time being) Anyone please help?

[holmes4]

What you really want to do is delete the XP partition and then expand the Win7 partition into the unallocated space. There are various partition management tools to do this - Acronis Disk Director is the one I use - there are others.

[rrfranczak3]

I think you can do that within windows in disk management, in Win 7, go into control panel, then administrative tools, then computer management, then disk management, make the Win 7 volume the bootable, primary volume, then delete the XP volume and expand the Win 7 volume.....that should do it.....

[FrankFrank]

I used EASEUS Partition Master 6.0.1 Home Edition to shrink the XP partition as much as I could, but it didn't give me an option to delete a partition. I tried using the Disk Management on Win7 but I can't figure out how to change my Win7 partition to the primary, and I can delete the XP partition.

[rrfranczak3]

do a right click on the Win 7 partition

[FrankFrank]

It doesn't give me the option. Where exactly am I suppose to right click?

[rrfranczak3]

in disk management move the mouse over the win 7 volume and right click, it should give you a drop down window with options, it should do the same thing over the win xp volume

[FrankFrank]

Here are my options...

[rrfranczak3]

I think that you have to make Win 7 the active & primary partition 1st..in the long run maybe you should just download the trial version of acronis and do it through that, I have Acronis Disk Director Suite FULL version and it works real well

[FrankFrank]

I downloaded the demo and it worked great... except now it says I need a serial key to preform operations.