Deleting a system partition?

[phschris1]

Hi all,

I have 3 partitions on my hard drive: Vista, Windows 7, and recovery. My vista partition and 7 partition are each 71gb. I no longer want the vista partition and want to delete everything from the vista partition and add the free space to windows 7 partition. How do I go about doing this when I try to delete the vista partition through the use of the Disk Management tool it says I can't delete it because it is in use when I am not even using that partition? Help please!

 

[WinXPert]

OK when your using Win 7 where is your swap file? Is it using the Vista partition? Another thing to take into consideration is your boot loader, I believe it is located in the Vista Partition.

 

[Matthew DeCarlo]

https://www.techspot.com/guides/144-removing-windows7/

Just delete Vista instead of 7 (which is what that guide is for) -- same operation, though.