Choose 'Advanced System Settings', then click on the Advanced tab. Under the Performance section, click the Settings button. In the Performance Options window, click the Advanced tab. Click on Settings button under Startup and Recovery.
Remove the check mark for Time to display list of operating systems. Click on OK button. Step 2: Removing an Operating System by following the steps from the following article. How to edit the Boot. Was this reply helpful? Click to expand The screen shot you show actually has the XP partition as the current system, primary, active partition, which is why you are seeing a message saying 'cannot format the system partition'.
I thought from your first post you were trying to reformat the XP partition, but was doing so from Windows 7 or 8 not from XP itself. You just confirmed that, so why is the XP partition the active one? Perhaps the message is telling you the system boot BCD is actually on the XP partition which I warned you to check for. BUT in all cases where you run even a remote risk of mangling wanted partitions, make sure you have reliable drive images of each partition before you start.
Also be prepared to have to reinstall the boot loader or at least edit it after removing XP. Alas, just as for the system manager in Win7, gparted is not allowed to set an actual active partition to not active. So how do we do it when the XP partition appears to contain your boot process, so XP partition is always active, whatever OS you are actually booting?
Umm, perhaps you need to move the boot loader processes onto another logical drive first Sorry I cannot be more specific.
Anyone else??? As I said way back in post 4 - having reformatted the partition containing XP, which also contained your boot loader for win 7 and 8, you have destroyed your boot loader and must rebuild it. It must point to both Win 7 and win 8 partitions so that you get a dual boot between those two. This can be done from an install DVD of win 7 or 8. You need to boot from the DVD by changing the boot order in the bios and choose an option to repair the boot loader only.
I dont really think that just setting the Win 7 drive to system will help, because you won't have a bcd boot loader there, I suspect. BTW you have changed your bios boot order to put the Win7 drive at the top I hope??? Reactions: misor. Repairing windows 7 worked, but I guess I messed up with windows 8.
Installed fresh copy of Windows 8. Problem solved, thanks everyone. Tmagic looks like that would have worked, but its late now, thanks anyways. Forum rules There are no such things as "stupid" questions.
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For long and complicated questions prefer the other forums within the support section. Before you post please read how to get help. I have recently acquired a laptop on which I have installed Mint I would like to remove Mint from the desktop dualboot but it is very important that XP is not damaged, there are some items that can only be run on Windows and these are very important to me.
Can someone please provide this Newbie with step-by-step instructions on how to remove Mint from the dual boot.
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