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Installed Win7 on wrong partition, what are my options?
I just finished building my new PC, and after a fair bit of research I decided to install Win7 (pro 64bit) to a 120gb partition on my 1.5tb drive. I blew it somehow and the OS is installed on the very big partition. I discovered this when copying my files from my old PC to my shiney new D: partition when I ran out of disk space. Whaa!?!? That was when I discovered my mistake.
I've already installed all my drivers, lots of software (firefox, libre office, call of duty, etc). In fact I've spent the better part of two days installing the OS and various software and getting it the way I want it. I need to fix this somehow.
Option 1: Move all my data files to the big partition, then install win7 into the small partition, go through all the installation and configuring hell, then delete the OS files from the big partition. I'm not even sure this would work, and I'm guessing that there are some files that cannot be deleted that I'd just have to live with.
Option 2: Move all my data files to the big partition, then use something like gparted to expand the big partition to include the smaller partition. This would probably be easiest, but would sacrifice the speed benefits of having the OS and programs on a smaller partition.
Option 3: Wipe the whole thing and start over.
Option 4: Bang my head on my keyboard until I die of massive brain damage, and don't worry about the PC. (This option has the added benefit of letting me avoid doing my taxes tomorrow)
Do I have any other options? Are there problems with any of my above 4 options that I'm not seeing? Can someone wave a magic wand and make it better so I can go back to playing Call of Duty on my shiney new PC?
Oh btw in case it matters I did let windows put the 100mb mystery partition on there.