Uninstall Windows® 7 from
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Remove (Uninstall) Windows® 7 from Dual Boot
You dual booted Windows® 7 with another Windows
on your computer.
There are multiple ways to remove
Windows 7 if you dual booted. I use
the following way because I find it to be very easy and
it is cross platform so you do not have to worry about
if you are on Vista or XP.
First thing you have to do is download and install
Paragon Hard Disk Manager on your primary OS (the OS you
want to keep - double check system requirements to make
sure PHDM will work on your system), not Windows 7 (the
OS you want to remove).
After that, run Paragon Hard Disk Manager. At the bottom
you will see all your partitions listed. Right click on
the partition that has Windows 7 installed and click on
"Format":
Make sure you are formatting the partition with Windows
7 and not the one with your primary OS installed! A
window will popup asking you if you are sure you want to
format the partition. It will give you the option to
select a new file system and name it. Name it whatever
you want, but be
sure to select "NTFS" for the file system. Hit "Format":
After that, go up to the top of the program window where
the buttons are and hit "Apply":
You will be prompted with a message asking you are you
sure you want to make the changes. Hit "Yes":
That will start the process of formatting your
partition. A window will pop up that will allow you to
monitor the progress. After the formatting is done hit
"Close":
Now right click again on that partition that you just
formatted, from the main program window, and hit
"Delete":
A window will popup asking you to type the label of the
volume in order to confirm that you want to delete it.
Type the name of the volume and hit "Yes". The label of
the volume on mine was "[No label]" (without the
quotes) so I typed in "[No label]" (without the quotes):
After you hit "Yes", you will again have to hit the
"Apply" button from the top:
You will be prompted with a message asking you are you
sure you want to make the changes. Hit "Yes":
Again a window where you can monitor the progress of
your partition deletion will popup. Just sit back and
watch. After a few seconds, a window will popup telling
you that your partition is in use and that you must
reboot your computer to delete it. Hit "Restart Now":
Your computer will then restart. Instead of your booting
into Windows, you will be brought to a Paragon Hard Disk
Manager screen.
Allow the program to do its thing until the bottom left
hand of the screen displays the following:
Hit any key you desire and allow your computer to
restart. When restarting you should not be prompted with
any screen that asks you to choose what OS to load - you
should load directly into your primary OS, whether that
is XP, Vista, Win98, whatever.
Now at this point you are done removing Windows 7.
However, since you had designated X GB on your hard
drive for Windows 7 and you no longer have Windows 7,
you have X GB just sitting there and being useless on
your hard drive. The following is optional but I highly
recommend you do it so you can put those X GB back to
good use.
After your computer boots into your primary OS, run
Paragon Hard Disk Manager again. You should at the
bottom where it lists your partitions there should be an
entry that says "(Unallocated)". That is all the space
that use to be your Windows 7 partition now just sitting
there. To change that. Right click on your current
Windows partition and click on "Move/Resize Partition":
You should now see a window that will ask you to specify
the new partition size:
Make it as big as possible and hit "Yes":
Again hit the "Apply" button from the top menu on the
main program window:
You will be prompted with a message asking you are you
sure you want to make the changes. Hit "Yes":
After that a window will popup where you can monitor the
progress of making your partition bigger. After it is
done, hit "Close":
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