Thanks so much for your reply I'm pretty sure my system is stable because i
deleted the old windows folder without anything happening to my computer..if
that's what you mean. Otherwise i'm unsure how to check if it's stable? Also
how do you delete the partion instead of just putting it ontop of the old
one? is there an option to delte it and if so where is that option? Thanks
again
You'll know if it gets unstable if Vista starts to do weird things.
In Windows there can only be ONE active partition which the operating
system needs to boot from. Think of a partition as a roped off area of
your hard drive. There are no actual physical boundaries, just virtual
ones that separate one partition from another, something like rooms in
a house, but no physical walls. Each partition gets assigned a drive
letter like C, D, and so on. One partition may take up all the space
on a physical hard drive or can be divided into multiple partitions.
If you've already deleted the old windows folder then you probably
just have one version of Windows in one partition on your C drive.
That should be fine.
Go to Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management,
then click on Disk Management. What you'll see is your current
configuration as Windows "sees" it which under some circumstances may
conflict with what is actually there.
In the computer world the numbering system starts at 0, not 1. What
can confuse some people is the difference between actual separate
physically different hard drives which always get labeled 0, 1, 2 and
so on and drive letters which start at C. A physical hard drive can be
divided into multiple partitions which always get assigned different
drive letters, not numbers.
In the left pane you see details about volumes, just another word for
drive letters. In the right pane you'll see your partitions and which
one is currently active (should be C) along with what file system is
installed, (should be NTFS) and the drive should be show as "healthy".
If you have external drives they only show if on and mounted.
You probably do NOT want to delete any partition. If you delete C,
then you effectively remove that partition and Windows along with it
so in effect you end up with no operating system and would have to
start over from scratch. Unless there is something very seriously
wrong with your current install of Windows you probably don't want to
do that.
So now that you have a better idea how Windows treats drives and
creates partitions, what exactly are you trying to accomplish my
adding or wanting to delete a partition?