Gateway Recovery on other partition

[sablegsd]

I thought I would be smart this time and ask first.

I have 7 on one partition and want to start over on another but I don't want to get rid
of the first one.

1. Do I have enough room on the empty side to do the Gateway Recovery thing and

2. When I go to install, will it give me the option to install on the empty one
or will it start installing over the 7?

 

[Bill2]

Hello Sablegsd,

Your post is not very clear. What empty side and why do you want to do a recovery when windows is already installed? Secondly, the recovery will simply erase everything on C: partition and install factory shipped files, if you mean whether you can choose the partition to do the recovery to, no you cant.

 

[gregrocker]

You can try booting your Recovery Disks or running the Recovery Partition to see if it will allow you to select D but I doubt it will work.

You'll need a second license anyway to run two installs even on the same machine.

I would find a Win7 installer, boot it to Custom install to D without the factory bloatware, a much cleaner. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1649-clean-install-windows-7-a.html

Some tips on getting a perfect install: http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/125874-re-install-windows-7-a.html#post1086729