I have dual O/S want one deleted

cookie_monster_8

Ok basically bought my packard bell pc last christmas with XP home installed and an annoying partition with around 30gb for progams and 130gb for persoanl files. Immediately didn't like this so got some partition removal thing and thought id got rid of it. Anyway ended up i installed XP pro on the system but it is installed alongside xp home and never actually deleted it. I got around this by setting xp pro to be the primary o/s and only to me choose which OS i want for around 3 seconds on startup.

Now this has worked fine for the past 6months+ but id rather just have a clean hard disk with just my xp pro on it and no other partitions. How do i go about deleting xp home and the partition.

Also i would rather just format everything, remove all partitions, and start with a fresh install of xp pro and nothing on my system.

I have looked on my XP pro Computer management and see i have 2 partitions
1 says it is 7.81gb and is unallocated. The other is my (C: ) at 141.24gb NTFS and healthy.

This is only about 150gb and my hard disk is 160gb. So is the missing 10gb my xp home not showing or is it xp pro itself and my 'unallocated' partition is xp home.

Any advise on what to do is greatly appreciated:beer:

startrekker

Use Killdisk to completely erase the drive and re-install xp .Your 160 gb hd will probably only show 150 ish anyway

GoofyGAT

From your description & partitions you appear to have only XP Pro installed on your hard disk - but you want to install afresh & have a single partition.....

First, make a backup (to removable media/extn hard drive) of all your data, pics, videos, emails, address book, bookmarks, etc.

[STRIKE]Use the free GPartEd LiveCD to first delete the partitions, then create a single large one (effectively 'merging' them in the process).[/STRIKE] Actually using the free Paragon Partition Manager 2005 may be an easier way to merge the partitions.

Finally install XP Pro afresh, download all necessary windows updates, reload your programs & restore your backed-up data, emails, etc.

As startrekker mentions, it's normal for a 160Gb hard disk to show up around 150Gb. G