Wiping an old partition

[Blorp Kola]

I recently bought an upgrade from windows xp to windows 7. I had windows xp 32bit, and now I have windows 7 64 bit. I have a partition that was my main partition for windows xp but now I have upgraded I have a new main partition for windows 7. Is it safe to wipe my windows xp partition and if so how do I do it.
Thanks

 

[WR2]

Hello Blorp Kola;

Are the partitions on the same hard disk?

 

[Blorp Kola]

Yes they are. Does that matter?

 

[WR2]

Your bootloader might be (probably is) in that first partition.

 

[Blorp Kola]

How do I find out if it is?

 

[WR2]

When you bootup are getting an option to run both Win7 and "Earlier Version of Windows”?

 

[Blorp Kola]

Yes I am, I wondered why that was.

 

[WR2]

Right now - you have a dual boot setup. It's not a bad thing to have.
And if Win7 is the default you might want to leave it as is right now till you get Win7 running exactly as you like it.

How much space is the WinXP taking up on the hard disk? Any free space in that partition?

How much room in the Win7 partition?

 

[Blorp Kola]

Windows 7 Partition-New Volume (c-60.3gb used, 57.7gb free
Windows XP Partition-Windows XP (D-55.6gb used, 48.3 gb free

 

[Blorp Kola]

Damn smileys that's supposed to be a colon : followed by a close bracket )

 

[WR2]

In your case I'd suggest shrinking the WinXP partition down to about 60GB total and let Win7 have the remaining ~160GB.

EaseUS Partition Master - Home Edition will let you re-size your partitions.

Free EaseUS Partition Master 9.1 Home Edition web page

 

[Blorp Kola]

OK so I will be shrinking the xp partition to the minimum size that is already in it.
Thanks for your help.

 

[Blorp Kola]

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