Removing second OS of dual boot system

[martinpd]

My HPDV9727CL laptop came with Vista 32. I created a second partition and installed (dual boot) Vista 64 to do some testing. Now I'd like to erase the Vista 32 and give the partition space to Vista 64. How can I accomplish this without losing my boot process which I am assuming is on the first partition. I don't want to do a complete wipe and re-install as that will use up an "activation occurrence".

 

[scuzzo]

Here is the article about Vista's bootloader. Use GParted to delete the old partition and resize the HD.

 

[fastvince]

What do you mean by .'not losing my boot process'. ? When you delete the Vista32 partition and give the space to the 64 partition, you will lose all the data in the 32 partition, including the OS and any start-up procedures from the OS. It will now boot using the start-up procesees installed on the 64 partition.