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sqr47,
Do you have a Recovery CD or UFD?
If yes, boot from it, choose command prompt, and use the DiskPart command.
If you do not have a Recovery CD or UFD, then boot from your Win7 CD and when that first dialog comes up, then type SHIFT + F10. This will get to a command prompt where you can run DiskPart.
To clean up your situation and start fresh, first use following diskpart commandss:
List Disk
Select Disk 0 (Here 0 is an example and is the most common selection in this case)
Clean (this will wipe out the first and last sectors on your disk and be just like starting afresh with a blank virgin disk)
Now shutdown your computer and install Win7 on a clean disk.
Once again when you get to that first dialog, you can use Shift+f10 to get to a command prompt and to partition the hard disk as you would like. after partitioning, Exit your way back to the Win7 install procedure and tell Win7 to install where you want it.
I suggest you go to a command prompt and type DiskPart ?
to familiarize yourself with the power and potential of Diskpart.