2 Separate Windows 7 Options During Boot

Hello everyone.

The C partition of my hard disk was slowly dying of bad sectors, so I had the 'bright' idea of wiping it out and doing a clean install of Windows 7 on the D partition of the same hard disk. I thought that choosing to format the C partition during the installation would do the trick of getting rid of the old Windows 7. This does not seem to be the case as I now have 2 Windows 7 listed during boot.

Looking at the Boot tab of System Configuration, I can see a Windows folder in each partition. I also noticed that the partitions have switched over. What used to be the D partition is now the C partition with the new Windows, and what used to be the C partition with the old Windows is now the D partition and shows as empty.

Can anyone please advise me on the next best course of action? Any suggestions or thoughts would be very much appreaciated.

Thanks a bunch.

Hello serenelone , Please read this. paying attention to step 8 Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7

Re installing windows will not help bad sectors, you need a new hard drive.

You should have installed windows on what you call the C partition, not the D partition.

Windows will always be C when you`re in it and the other partition/s will have another letter.

Post a shot of disk management.

Hello everyone. Thanks for replying.

I do realise now that what I had done is not the brightest thing in the world. I also realise that I should have been referring to the Clean Install Factory OEM Windows 7 post instead of the Clean Install Windows 7 post. Again, not the brightest thing in the world.

Anyway, here is a screenshot of my disk management.

The recovery tools partition is most likely toast now, as stated re install again. This time delete all the partitions and create 1 298 GB partition, then install windows on that.

Or, you can format both C and D, during the install, then install windows on the 144.79 GB partition, not the 151.84 GB partition.

But, if you have no data you need to keep, I would wipe out the entire drive. (This is what you should do)

Clean Install Windows 7

Use step 7 to click on drive options to delete or format the partitions.

You can always make another partition later with Partition Wizard.

Thanks everyone for your help. Very much appreciated.