How do I get rid of vista and just have 7?

[Case1]

Hi Shawn,

I thought I was doing a clean install for Win 7 and it looks like I have vista and 7 on here. How do I get rid of vista and just have 7?

Thanks,

Casey

 

[Jonathan_King]

Hi Shawn,

I thought I was doing a clean install for Win 7 and it looks like I have vista and 7 on here. How do I get rid of vista and just have 7?

Thanks,

Casey

Hello Case1,

Vista and 7 look very similar, at a glance. Test to see what OS you have: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/515-system-type-32-bit-x86-64-bit-x64.html

Could you please Post a Screenshot of that window?

 

[Brink]

Hello Casey,

Could you also post a screenshot of your Disk Management (dskmgmt.msc) window showing all of your drive(s) layout? This way we will be able to tell which OS was installed first and which one is the boot drive/partition.

 

[Case1]

Hello Casey,

Could you also post a screenshot of your Disk Management (dskmgmt.msc) window showing all of your drive(s) layout? This way we will be able to tell which OS was installed first and which one is the boot drive/partition.

How do I do a screenshot and put it on the forum?

 

[DocBrown]

Just click on the word screenshot in Brinks post above

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello Case1, welcome to Seven Forums!




In the Windows start menu right click computer and click manage, in the left pane of the "Computer Management" window that opens click disk management and post a snip of that.

 

[Case1]

Hello Case1, welcome to Seven Forums!




In the Windows start menu right click computer and click manage, in the left pane of the "Computer Management" window that opens click disk management and post a snip of that.

Is this how

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

It will look similar to this.

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[Case1]

Hello Case1, welcome to Seven Forums!




In the Windows start menu right click computer and click manage, in the left pane of the "Computer Management" window that opens click disk management and post a snip of that.

How about this?

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Which OS are you using now, right this minute Vista or Windows 7?

 

[Case1]

Which OS are you using now, right this minute Vista or Windows 7?

Windows 7. Does it show I still have Vista on there?

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Not in that snip it doesn't.

 

[Case1]

Not in that snip it doesn't.

Is there a way I can tell if Vista is still on my comp? When I installed Win 7 I did a full install OEM and when I got to the partitions I chose the one Vista was on, the hard drive. Was I suppose to delete the partitions to get rid of Vista or do you think when I installed Win 7 it did it automatically? I am so confused LOL.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

If you did a clean install Vista is gone.


Clean Install Windows 7

 

[Case1]

OHH ok, so as long as I picked the partition Vista was on, which I did, That sucker is outta here! Now I need to install the new graphics card, ATI HD 3450 I just got. I have an HP pavilion m8013w and I think the video card is built in to the MB. How do I know which slot to put this new card in?

Thanks to you Barefoot, Jonathan, Brink, and Doc for y'alls help!!!

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Here you go mate.



What kind of expansion slot should you use for your video card?





Just be cautious that you don't short something out with static electricity from your body, keep your forearm against the PC case while you touch anything inside the PC case to ground yourself.

 

[Brink]

Hello Case1, welcome to Seven Forums!




In the Windows start menu right click computer and click manage, in the left pane of the "Computer Management" window that opens click disk management and post a snip of that.

How about this?

View attachment 94007

Casey,

From your screenshot, you do not have Vista installed anymore.

You will need to right click on the Disk 1 "Unknown" area and click on Initialize. This will then let you be able to create a new partition with all of that "Unallocated space" on disk 1.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[Case1]

Hello Case1, welcome to Seven Forums!




In the Windows start menu right click computer and click manage, in the left pane of the "Computer Management" window that opens click disk management and post a snip of that.

How about this?

View attachment 94007

Casey,

From your screenshot, you do not have Vista installed anymore.

You will need to right click on the Disk 1 "Unknown" area and click on Initialize. This will then let you be able to create a new partition with all of that "Unallocated space" on disk 1.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Hi Shawn,

I am not sure about this step on creating a partition. How many MB's will I need to use and what am I creating the partition for, Windows 7? And would it be wise to create any more partitions?

Thanks,

Casey

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello Casey.





When you get to step #7 in this tutorial create a new partition just click "next" don't enter a number and it will accept the default as the size to create the new partition.

 

[Case1]

Hi Ted,

Will I be creating this partition for the new operating sys ( Win 7)?