Dual boot help needed

[Adam67]

 Hi
 I've got a Toshiba satellite laptop that's got both windows xp (D) and windows 7 (C) in separate partitions on the same drive. At the moment when I turn the laptop on it comes up with a page asking which windows I want to use , what I would like to do is to get rid of win xp , format that partition and use the whole drive for win 7 and just have it boot to that. I've had a look in the disk management section in win 7 but when I right click in the win xp partition the format section is greyed out.
 Now I can put computers together and change bit's around and I can follow instructions but during 15 odd years of computing I've never tried anything like this , can anyone help please ?

Thanks , Adam

[Geek-9pm]

Sure, many users here do that. But unless your are short on disk space, there is not much advantage removing something the works.

Likely Windows 7 has the XP partition as the boot device. Which means the removing it will prevent Windows 7 from starting.

One method is to create a backup of what you need and then just install Windows 7 again and use the whole drive. This is a custom installation.

[Adam67]

 Hi

 I was sort of expecting that type of answer as xp was installed first , but hoping there was a work around without having to do a reinstall.

Thanks , Adam