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I can not find an answer to this - even from several people I know on the tech side. Dual booting Windows 7 and 8. Windows 7 is the OEM Gateway box. My drive looks like this:

PQService (Primary) System Reserved (Primary, active) Windows 7 (Primary) Windows 8 (Boot, Crash dump, LOGICAL)

I want to remove Win7 and convert the Win8 Logical to Primary. I was thinking I could remove the PQService, which is a backup for Win7 but I'm not sure. The small, 100MB System reserved is the only partition which shows active, making this even more confusing.

I'd like to end up with: System Reserved, Windows 8

Any thoughts on how to safely get there? Thank you!

Hennes
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You might not want to get rid of PQService. It doesn't harm you, and might even help you. Unless you NEED the space.

The System Reserved is meant to be the active partition - it contains the windows boot manager which can load any Windows >6.0 from any partition. Keep it.

You could delete the windows 7 partition : But you can't easily resize your windows 8 partition towards the left. You need a partition manager and it takes ages.

A better idea is to just delete the partition (after taking out whatever you need) and create a fresh partition there to hold data.

Milind R
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