Dual Boot Querie (REMOVE XP TO USE VISTA ON ITS OWN)

I had XP Home Edition installed on a 40Gb partition (C) on my acer laptop. I
have now installed Windows Vista Home Premium Edition on the other 40Gb
partition but that is now VOLUME :C. I would love for someone to tell me how
to remove xp completely so I can just use Vista. I was told If I format
which has XP on it, the boot manager would be deleted so I don't want to try
that just incase. Whenever I had xp and a beta of vista, I could just format
the vista parition then and delete the boot manager entry but I don't know if
I could do it the other way around.

If you have the Vista DVD (not a restore disk) you should be able to format
the XP partition, reboot from the Vista DVD, choose install (let it search
for Vista installations), choose repair, then click to repair the start up
files. It will find files missing, rewrite your boot files and not effect
any other files. Reboot.

"JamesP" <JamesP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:29237170-1BA6-458E-816A-083C30FED0AB@microsoft.com...
>I had XP Home Edition installed on a 40Gb partition (C) on my acer laptop.
>I
> have now installed Windows Vista Home Premium Edition on the other 40Gb
> partition but that is now VOLUME :C. I would love for someone to tell me
> how
> to remove xp completely so I can just use Vista. I was told If I format
> which has XP on it, the boot manager would be deleted so I don't want to
> try
> that just incase. Whenever I had xp and a beta of vista, I could just
> format
> the vista parition then and delete the boot manager entry but I don't know
> if
> I could do it the other way around.

"Night Keeper" wrote:

> If you have the Vista DVD (not a restore disk) you should be able to format
> the XP partition, reboot from the Vista DVD, choose install (let it search
> for Vista installations), choose repair, then click to repair the start up
> files. It will find files missing, rewrite your boot files and not effect
> any other files. Reboot.
>
> "JamesP" <JamesP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:29237170-1BA6-458E-816A-083C30FED0AB@microsoft.com...
> >I had XP Home Edition installed on a 40Gb partition (C) on my acer laptop.
> >I
> > have now installed Windows Vista Home Premium Edition on the other 40Gb
> > partition but that is now VOLUME :C. I would love for someone to tell me
> > how
> > to remove xp completely so I can just use Vista. I was told If I format
> > which has XP on it, the boot manager would be deleted so I don't want to
> > try
> > that just incase. Whenever I had xp and a beta of vista, I could just
> > format
> > the vista parition then and delete the boot manager entry but I don't know
> > if
> > I could do it the other way around.
>
> Ok thanks, I will try this