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OK, so I did everything last night - Windows 7 HP 64-bit is on and running like a dream. There were two issues that I ran into.
1) It did not recognize my (one year old and very very good) graphics card. Not sure if others had this issue with NVIDIA, but it actually took me an hour and 30 minutes!!! to download the driver from their site. (Not my connection speed, as I downloaded 10 other programs and transferred all my files over in the same time period simultaneously.)
2) When working on the partitions, it actually came up with FOUR lines. The C: partition that the OS was on, the D: partition that had the RECOVERY, some small unallocated space AND another partition that was like 1 GB that I had never seen before.
I was able to "expand" the unallocated space and extra partition into the main one, but the 10 GB "recovery" D: partition would not combine with the C: one no matter what I did. The "delete" button was greyed out. I was able to "format" it, but that was about it.
Not exactly sure why that happened. Tried everything I could including formatting both. Well, at least I have a 10 GB formatted partition now rather than one filled with the recovery BS. I suppose I can put my back-up image or whatever you guys were talking about on that along with some important files I want duplicates of. Too late now to fix it anyway.