I had the idea of deleting Vista at my next install (which will be OS 11.2), but I just could not wait, Vista was hogging 65GB of my HD (160GB total). As I never use Vista this waste of space was just bugging me.
Parted Magic to format and then resize to integrate to SUSE
kate to edit fstab and menu.lst
Job sorted:)
did you get Redmond’s permission to destroy the code they rented you? 
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You know, I never bother letting them know Anything.
I had earlier removed OEM Lenovo Install of Vista and replaced it with an Install from a Vista DVD. It didn’t like my OEM key, but nevertheless activated and validated fine. But whilst that eliminates much of the OEM crud, it didn’t make Vista any better. Doh! Why did I think it would?!
IINM the OEM OS is physically the first in the disk, usually in the first primary partition. I always thought that it wasn’t possible to merge it with another existing (suse) partition without repartitioning (and consequently loosing the data in the second partition). AFAIK you can only expand a partition if there’s unallocated space after it, not before.
I don’t know if I’m outdated on this, thus the question.
TIA
The Vista partition became my data store so you are correct, all that happened there is the format and edit to fstab and taking out the vista entry in the menu.lst
My existing data partition was the last in my setup, so I deleted it and expanded /home into the space freed up by it’s deletion.
Sorry if I didn’t clarify myself. I do know what I am doing. Even if nobody else does.
Oh, cr*p… Wouldn’t it be nice if we could resize at will, forward or backward, without loosing data? And renumber the partitions also, while we’re at it?
Well, back to imaging, repartitioning, restoring, installing… Not so hard, all considered.
Thanks caf 
All I did for my PC was completely delete Vista using Gparted 1st thing after getting turning it. I haven’t used Windows for over 2 years.