Windows Vista Documents in a Vista Partition

I would like to use my entire Vista partition as a partition for documents and files.

At the present, I have three partitions:
C: 36 gigs--Vista and my files
D: 11 gigs--XP
F: 10 gigs--NTFS but empty

I am going to ebay my Vista disc, and want to eliminate VIsta from C and simply use it as my documents partition (and then merge F with D). I can do this by copying my documents (about 6 gigs) from C to F, and then reformating C, transfering my documents back to C, and then merging D with F at the end (so that my XP partition has some extra space).

However, I "m wondering if there isn't a quicker way to do this. Forgive me for asking something that might sound stupid, but can I simply, after booting into my D (XP) partition, go into My Computer, and delete the C:Windows and Program Files directories? That way, I wouldn't have to go through the trouble of moving 6 gigs of data two times.

 

How do you have your dualboot configured? Do you know if XP’s bootfiles are currently on the Vista partition and do you know how to rearrange things before you format? If you don’t know then your second suggestion would be the easiest.

 

I dualboot using EasyBCD, which uses Vista's bootloader.

 

As far as "rearranging" things, I guess that's the concern here. If all we're talking about is simply using Windows to transfer files, that's ok, I can copy files/folders onto a formatted partition. I keep all my files in Vista's Documents folder for easy backups, so theoreticaly I could do this in one fell swoop--just one drag-n-drop.

If your concern was about how I would boot up after Vista was gone, I do have XP discs and would do a fixmbr.

 

If the XP boot files are on the Vista partition and you format it then fixmbr will not bring XP back. In which order did you install the OSes? Did you replace any partition boot records or move system files from one partition to another? Which is the current Active partition? Which OS did you run easybcd from? (to be pedantic you are not dualbooting using easybcd, you used it to configure the MS bootmanager for dualbooting).

 

McTavish, thanks for your time. I've had so many problems with getting XP to boot lately(unrelated to this thread) I'm just going to reformat my hard drive and install XP again. I went through lots of troubleshooting steps, none of which worked so I'm just gonna throw my hands in the air and reformat the drive itself. This will of course allow me the opportunity to create partitions as I want. Thanks anyways.