Deleting Windows from HDD ?

You want to Delete, Create a Primary Partition, then Format, and Align the drive.

I do each operation one at a time by clicking Apply up in the left hand corner, you will get a confirmation when each step is done.

So it`s Delete, Apply, Create Primary Partition, Apply, Format NTFS, Apply, Align, Apply

And that`s it.

But let`s say you had 2 Primary Partitions on 1 drive, and 1 partition had all your pictures, you simply don`t do anything at all to that partition.

And PW will even let explore a drive or partition, all done by right clicking on that particular drive or partition.

Guys, Gals, where in my Windows 7 Pro is: Computer Management snap in? I'm not seeing, probably overlooking it...

Just go to the Start Orb and type in (Computer Management). Mind shows up at the very top.

Or you can Start/right tick on Computer and select Manage.

You should get this.

Mike, post a new snip of Disk Management.

Windows does not always assign a letter, who told you it did ??

And let`s not refer to any drives as new or old, let`s say the Windows drive and the data drive, calling them new or old just confuses everyone :)

I don`t think the HP Recovery partition should have a letter. Things can get mistakenly written there if it has a letter. But if it came from the factory that way, then I guess leave it alone.

Assign another drive letter than original (D:) to Recovery partition?

What`s using up the letters E, F, G, H, I, and J ?

Flash card reader ?

If you want to keep all your drive letters in order ( I know I do ) then you could change those letters and any cd or dvd drive letters to the end of the alphabet.

Just personal choice :)

If you removed the D letter from the Recovery partition, you could use it on Disk 1 :)