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I think you may be far better off starting a new separate thread rather then continuing on the older 2009 thread here. This way your problem will get more attention. If you bought an upgrade disk that would have replaced Vista on C.
The D partition rather small in size from about 6 or 7gb upto about 10gb on some machines is the hidden factory recovery partition seen there. A noisey hard drive however is never good suggesting it will likely be failing on you at some point and could explain where the black and restore to previous version screen is coming from.
If you are hearing a tick tick tick type sound that would be the read/write heads arm slapping up against the main spindle inside the drive pointing to the eventual failure. For deletion of all partitions and performing a clean install of 7 on a brand new primary review the guide here. Clean Install with a Upgrade Windows 7 Version