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Formatting hard drive containing old OS
I'm currently using 7 RC1 build 7100, and my computer came with Vista 32-bit Home Premium. Is it a bad idea to format the first hard drive? I want to get rid of all the BS, as it's terribly slow using Vista now (7 working great), but I can't find the recovery disc and cannot find anyway to make a restore disc or boot off of the recovery partition in Vista.
I've posted a screenshot of my 7 disc management. The one with approx. 27 GB left contains Vista, and I now have all of my important files on my external drive, so I don't need it anymore.
Or is it possible to make a recovery disc using that partition anyway? Trust me, I've read everything I could find and I think my system only came with a disc, it's just that this disc management seems to show the "recovery partition" on the Vista drive.
Also, will this cause any problems? I read something about the boot partition maybe still being on the Vista drive, and the possible need to move it. 7 was installed on what was in Vista the "D" drive, although now they're swapped in 7 so the one I need to get rid of is now D instead of C.
I hope this makes sense, and thanks in advance for any help.