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How To Rid My PC of Vista After 7 Install?
Got a used HP a6433w cheap the other day. My initial plan was to completely wipe the HDD with D-BAN (because it came with Vista Home Premium x64 installed), and then do a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate x86. However, I could not get DBAN to work and simply custom installed W7 Ultimate over Vista. W7 is way better and faster than Vista, so I have no reason to ever go back. Here's the problem: The HDD is 500gb, and when I got it with Vista x64 there was 465gb of free space on the drive. After installing W7 Ultimate I only have 365gb of free space on the drive. What's going on? I know that 7 doesn't require 100 gigs of space for installation. Is Vista still on the disk somewhere? I didn't create any partitions or anything like that, and Disk Management only shows that W7 Ultimate is installed. What happened to 100gb of my hard drive, and can I get it back? Or....do I need to start over and format my C drive before installing W7?