http://blip.tv/file/110303/

Or you can download the video file directly at this link:

http://blip.tv/file/get/JoshBancroft-VideoRunningWindowsVistaOnTheAsusR2HUltraMobilePC355.m4v

With a dual boot sytem I went into the Vista. In Vista’s disk management tools in Admin Tools I was able to reformat the Recovery Partition and now it’s my secondary Data Drive.

I tried to do the same for the C: Drive but the option to format was grayed out. The next option was to try D: convert C: /fs:ntfs from the Command Prompt. It said I needed to be in “elevated mode” to perform this task. Easy enough. I just right-clicked on Command Prompt from the Start Menu and choose Run As Adminstrator. That worked! The drive was dismounted and formatted by Vista in the Command Prompt to NTFS.

The next step was to install Vista on the new NTFS C: Drive. The installation was normal and once all my drivers were installed, I went into the disk management again and reformatted the D: to erase the previous Vista.

To remove the Dual Boot prompt at startup, use this little freebie program: http://www.vistabootpro.org/

Now it’s a Vistagami UMPC!

Thanks,
Manix

In that case, you can do it, but destructively. That is, the only “supported” way to do it is blow both partitions away, create a new partition, and install Vista on that partition. You will lose all data on both partitions. That’s what I did.

Outside of that, you could try a tool like Partition Magic or gpart, that can do more fancy things, like removing your C: partition, making your old D: partition into the new C: partition, and expanding it to fill the whole drive, but there’s a risk of losing everything, anyway. Like, it’s happened to me half the time I’ve tried Partition Magic. So make sure you’re backed up, or don’t have any precious data on the UMPC, no matter which route you take!

Good luck!

Now–how do I install Vista on the C drive with the FAT32 format? I like Vista and don’t want a dual boot system.