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Having problem formating parition - Vista Disk Management

Jun 25, 2007 3:35AM PDT

Hi,
I have a dual boot system with Vista and XP. I am satisfied with Vista and would like to format and get rid of the XP Partition. However, I can't seem to do that from Vista Disk Management. Here is the configuration of my Disks in Disk Management starting from Left to Right.

1) D:\(XP) : Healthy(System, Active, Primary Partition)
2) G:\(Data): Healthy(Primary Partition)
3) C:\(Vista): Healthy(Boot, Page File,Crash Dump, Logical Partition)

I basically want to eliminate D:\ but I'm not being allowed to do so.I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate. I don't know why its listing the D:\ as a System active partition from Vista when it has XP on it. When I was installing Vista, I installed it on the labelled C:\ partition. Can anyone please help me with this problem. Thank you.

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