remove recovery drive of vista and install win7


  1. Posts : 10
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #1

    remove recovery drive of vista and install win7


    Dear friends,

    Recently i bought a windows7 Ultimate, and i want to install it on my laptop. currently, my laptop working with vista.

    My hard disk drive has two partitions. one is OS(C: ) and another is called Recovery(D: ).

    my question is:

    How can i remove Recovery driver (which is related to vista) and install a completely new win7 on my laptop?

    Thanks in advance
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  2. Posts : 5,056
    Windows 7 x64 pro/ Windows 7 x86 Pro/ XP SP3 x86
       #2

    1) The presence of the Vista recovery partition will not impact win7 in any way, OTOH you will retain the ability to restore Vista should you ever want to do that. I suggest you leave it alone unless you are constrained of hdd space.

    2) If you really want to remove the recovery partition, do 2 things first:

    Make recovery disks, there would be some kind of recovery software pre-installed on your computer (like HP recovery manager or Dell datasafe). Keep those disks safely.

    Image your current vista installation using free Macrium, make a rescue disk and keep the image and the disk safely.

    You paid for the Vista, these 2 steps will let you revert to it, should you want to.

    Now, back up all user created data to external media and boot from the win7 dvd. I suggest you do a clean install, that'll wipe everything and install win7. Heres a tut.

    Clean Install Windows 7

    Make sure you format the hard drive completely, then create fresh partitions and install win7.
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  3. Posts : 22,814
    W 7 64-bit Ultimate
       #3

    Hello jeff2, welcome to Seven Forums!






    After you have made backups of everything you care to save and you want to do a real wipe "clean all" to the Hard Disk Drive (HDD) have a look at this tutorial at the link below, it over-writes everything, all the old Windows code including all the old Vista drivers, giving you the best possible space to install Windows 7 to; it goes hand-in-hand with a clean install.


    SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation
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  4. Posts : 10
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #4

    Guys, thank you so much for your help.

    I have a bad experience with keeping recovery of vista untouched! my system found a problem, and went to recovery mode ... (you can guess): it switched backed my system to vista.
    That's why i like to completely remove any trace of vista!

    Thanks again.
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  5. Posts : 22,814
    W 7 64-bit Ultimate
       #5

    Hello again Jeff.






    Glad we could help; be sure to post back if you have further questions.
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