Windows 10: Dual boot: Safe to delete 1 OS ?

Hello !

Currently, I have dual boot Win7 and Win10. And the only reason I have Win7 is because the drivers for a printer were not updated to Win10. Now recently HP did just that, and I no longer need Win7.

The way I have it set up is that I have Win7 on one partition, Win10 on another (100GB each) and the rest is Storage. Is it safe to simply remove and format the partition that has Win7 on it ?

Thanks.

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problem with update to zune and update to windows phone

Hello,



One thing you could also attempt to do is boot into Safe mode and attempt to delete the folder (or another OS if you dual-boot).

For instructions on how to log into Safe Mode, please visit the following support article:



http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Start-your-computer-in-safe-mode



Regards,

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How can I remove Win 7 from my Win 10 PC?

Different links that might help removing the Windows 7 OS:

Dual Boot - Delete a OS - Windows 7 Help Forums

Remove that extra operating system and the dual boot

How-To Remove an OS from Windows Dual Boot Config

 

Go to MSCONFIG (Win key+r, type in msconfig)... will get something similar to this:


Delete the OS you no longer want. Go to Disk Management,

and on the OS drive, right click the partition of the unwanted OS, and delete. Now unallocated , free space.

EDIT: BACKUP FIRST!! Just good practice.... And after the steps above... reboot...

 

As long as it isn't the active partition with the boot files the computer is using to boot with.

 

Commander,
If it were the active partition would booting to repair then to command line and doing the MBR BOOT REPAIR AND BOOT/FIX correct things?

 

Probably. Khi's recovery drive has EasyBCD and Macrium Reflect which both definitely could be used to restore the boot files.

 

Not familiar with Khi but impressed with diskpart and it's many commands.

edit:Guess I meant bootrec

 

Navy is correct Macrium is excellent for finding and repairing the boot records on all partitions at the same time. Kyhi's rescue is here Windows 10 Recovery Tools - Bootable Rescue Disk - Page 43 - Windows 10 Forums and has recently been updated. Also, you can get the free version of Macrium here: Macrium Reflect Free