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Yeah, that's basically what I meant, but I prefer to remove all partitions before starting the OS install. I would think the delete option on the install screen would do the trick.
If you already reinstalled W7, you could still use a partition manager to delete the OEm partition, move your existing partitions to the beginning of the drive, and reclaim that space for your data partition. This is all assuming you made your recovery discs.