Frank Pratt asks:
I currently have a Windows 7 & Windows 8 CPE on my desktop. I wish to keep Windows 7, and being satisfied with Windows 8, no longer need that OS, I’ll wait for the actual release in the fall.
So, how would I edit the boot menu to do so and once in Windows 7, using Computer Management, I can safely format the Windows 8 partition in one fell swoop?
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System: Windows 7 HP x64
Tagged: boot menu, change operating system, dual boot, windows 7, windows 8, windows tips
System: Windows 7 HP x64
Tagged: boot menu, change operating system, dual boot, windows 7, windows 8, windows tips
8 Answers -
Suman Acharya
August 5, 2012you can also delete OS from boot list using “msconfig”
win logo+R
type msconfig
under boot tab there will be installed OS listed
or you can edit boot configuration data by running command prompt as an administrator and type “bcdedit /?”
you will be guided through.
goto disk management , make sure the Windows 7 insatalled partion is active partition and delete the other partition with Win 8.
this tutorial in the forum will be helpful http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/210983-dual-boot-delete-os.html
August 5, 2012ha14
August 5, 2012delete the partition containing Windows 8
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2372-dual-boot-windows-7-windows-8-delete-windows-8-a.html
Lambvolution
August 6, 2012format the partition contains windows 8 under windows 7
Usman Mubashir
August 6, 2012I have encountered a similar problem, explore a boot manager program that will give you access to a .txt file, deleting some obvious lines from the text will resolve the problem.
I upgraded my windows 7 to 8 and changed the settings from Computer Management.
James Gillespie
August 11, 2012Log into Windows 7
Click Start and Type Partition and select create and format hard disk partitions.
Then format or delete the partition that you had windows 8 on.
FIDELIS
August 20, 2012Hello, you could just format the partition where windows 8 is and then use the bootrec command to fix the the boot and MBR. Here is more info on the bootrec command:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392
Tony Batty
August 25, 2012Or your other bet is format the damn thing once and for all, since it will still be installed on your C drive partition
Benjamin Glass
August 28, 2012Simply delete the partition Windows 8 is on, then expand the Windows 7 partition using some good partition software–say, GParted Linux. Then remove the Windows 8 entry from the boot screen by using the MSConfig utility.