Cant format old system drive after dual boot install

[pegasusl]

Hi all

Please bear with me I'm new at this and a little unsure as to exactly what I'm doing.

A few months ago I was having trouble with an incredibly slow system running Vista 32 bit. I run some RAM hungry programs so decided I'd try a Win 7 64 bit system, and if it was stable I would then look to increase my RAM beyond 3GB (Apparently my motherboard will take 8GB of RAM)

A screen shot of my basic system info is here...


I obviously now want to stay with Win 7 64bit and format the Vista drive for the storage space but have no idea how to make my Win 7 drive the system drive and then format the old Vista drive.

I hope I've given enough info, and my request makes sense.

I'd be really grateful of a fairly straight forward "how to". I'm reasonably savvy and can follow instruction but certainly no expert.

Many thanks in advance

Chris

 

[theog]

Mark the Windows 7 HD Drive ACTIVE
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/71432-partition-mark-active.html?ltr=P
Than
Physically disconnect the old HD.
Make the Windows 7 HD, disk0 & first HD boot in BIOS.Also connected to the first Sata port on the MOBO.


http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html?ltr=S
Note: You may need to do startup repair 3 to 4 times.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/105541-startup-repair-run-3-separate-times.html



When Windows is booting OK, Reconnect the other two HD, as Disk1.




Mark the Windows Vista HD Drive INACTIVE
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/197157-partition-mark-inactive.html