two active vista partitions--

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 11th June 2008, 05:26 PM

and I wish to get rid of one of them,,,

"disc management" wont let me do it,,

as far as I can see, there no facility if you boot off the dvd,,

any ideas?

**abaddonxi** · 11th June 2008, 05:30 PM

I thought Vista could do that stuff.

There was a good thread covering something similar recently.

Cheers
Simon

**ladas** · 11th June 2008, 05:34 PM

Would it be possible to go in from good old DOS - and either do a fdisk - or even a basic format to clean out the OS from the volume you don't want.

After a format - you may find you might be able to remove the volume using the disk management within Vista

Just a thought

**dmdigital** · 11th June 2008, 05:35 PM

Start>Run and then type MSCONFIG

You can then disable the other partition.

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 11th June 2008, 08:08 PM

yep,, takes me to system configuration,,

cant see anything there that could help,,

in BOOT
there is nothing to alter,,,

**dmdigital** · 11th June 2008, 08:11 PM

You should be able to alter the Boot menu (Boot.ini settings).

I'll have to fire up my laptop to check, don't have this problem with a Mac

Second half's started so will have to wait for NSW to get flogged

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 11th June 2008, 08:44 PM

and they did,,,,

**dmdigital** · 11th June 2008, 09:13 PM

Lead you astray run BCDEDIT.exe in Vista (Boot Configuration Data Editor)

What a great score at the end

**abaddonxi** · 11th June 2008, 09:31 PM

This is the thread I meant-

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/computers/56579-vista-xp.html

Mostly Lada's post-
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/computers/...tml#post745359

Might not be much help.

Cheers
Simon

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 12th June 2008, 05:56 PM

Originally Posted by dm_td5

Lead you astray run BCDEDIT.exe in Vista (Boot Configuration Data Editor)

BCDEDIT.exe
yep,, stores etc
vista says it will "run with admin privledges,,"

but then nothing opens/happens,,,,,

What a great score at the end

I exited stage left at 24

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