Windows 7 installed on recovery

Hey all,

I just installed Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit on my Dell laptop. After a bit of googling I have seen that I installed it on my recovery drive and have now run out of room, and it seems vista is still installed on my C: drive (I have the option of either running vista or 7 when I start up). So, my question is, how do I get rid of vista and install 7 onto the C: drive without destroying something? Do I just copy the files from recovery onto the C: drive and replace the ones there?

This is my recovery drive, where windows 7 is installed.


And my C: drive, where all of the old stuff is. I did a full install instead of the "upgrade" option as I didn't mind if all of the stuff in here got wiped, I have backed up what I wanted... Just realised now as I started downloading things again that it is all saving onto the recovery drive instead of the C: drive, and when I had a look in C: drive program files, it seems everything is still there (much to my annoyance as I was hoping that installing Windows7 would not only give me windows7 but would also clean up all the rubbish I have downloaded haha)

Sorry, got caught up posting that additonal stuff and missed your post!

Hiya BFK - have fun with this one.:)

Have a good night.

Bare Foot Kid said:

The OS you are in right now is the one installed to the recovery partition and is now worthless as a factory recovery partition and it can be removed without issue.

Is there anything on that partition you need to save to C: partition, the Vista partition before you remove the 'new' Windows 7 partition?

Currently there isn't anything on here that needs to be saved, everything of value is still on my USB drive.