Windows 7 Installed on C drive and D/Recovery Drive

Excellent, now what would you like to do, is there anything on that partition you need to save (backup) elsewhere?

There is a way to safely recover all that space into the Windows partition if that is what you want to do.

Here's the deal, you're good to go now, some manufacturers tie their recovery disk (your disk) to the recovery partition and the disk will not work if the partition is removed.


Lets take this one step at a time.

In the Windows start menu click the computer button, in the window that opens right click the C: partition and rename it to anything you like so you will know in the next step which is which.

Now in the Windows start menu type msconfig at the boot tab what do you have?

I see that BFK is helping you with this so I will bow out for now.

My only point is that if you overwrote D (confirm that) with your reinstall, had reasons to reinstall Win7, then you can consider deleting C and recovering System MBR into D so you can continue with setting up Win7, since your files are all backed up anyway.

We're making it so it will boot directly to the OS you want to keep without the boot menu at system startup.

You will still have the D: but it will be "out-of -the-way" for a while so you can figure out if the recovery partition is needed to use the disk to reinstall, so maybe you can remove it later.


Click to high-light the other entry and click delete then restart the PC and come back to let me know how it went.

gregrocker said:

I see that BFK is helping you with this so I will bow out for now.

My only point is that if you overwrote D (confirm that) with your reinstall, had reasons to reinstall Win7, then you can consider deleting C and recovering System MBR into D so you can continue with setting up Win7, since your files are all backed up anyway.

I think he has reinstalled to C: last so it's the newest.