window 7 pro/premier installed help

[clyde]

hi guys

just bought a dell studio 1558 i5 500gb problem is their appears to be running two window 7 progammes, one premier edtion and a window 7 pro ,my saved files(d is full with no space left and the os(c has 400gb free of 451gb can / how do i unistall the premier edition without a recovery disk.

regards

 

[DeaconFrost]

Are you saying you boot up to an option between Professional and Premier? That would make me wonder where your Dell came from, because there is no Premier Edition of Windows 7.

 

[gregrocker]

Please post back a screenshot of your full Disk Mgmt drive map, using Snipping Tool in Start menu.

What makes you think you have two installed versions of Win7? Please post some screenshots of evidence.

 

[clyde]

sorry its premium edtion, i'll try the snipping

 

[DeaconFrost]

There's a Home Premium. Are you saying you boot up and see Professional and Home Premium as separate choices?

 

[Karln]

sorry its premium edtion, i'll try the snipping

You have windows 7 premium and W7 professionnel in your PC ?

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello clyde, welcome to Seven Forums!

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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.

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[clyde]

yes thats correct

 

[clyde]

hi hope this helps

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello clyde, welcome to Seven Forums!

   Note

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.

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This is what we need (would like to) see, that does not help.

 

[clyde]

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Now start the "other" version, restart the PC to start that version and post a similar snip from there; do you have a dual boot menu present at PC startup like this one below with 2 Windows 7 entries?

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[clyde]

hi not sure how to use snip at start up just have the pic you have posted

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

We don't need to see, do you have the 2 Windows 7 entries like the snip I posted or does Windows just auto-start to the logon screen?

 

[clyde]

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Yes it seems you do indeed have 2 separate Windows 7 OSs installed; there is a way to recover all the space to the left of the big partition and do away with the dual boot issue at the same time.

If there is no data you need from the 2 small partitions to the left, you can follow this tutorial at the link below to recover all the space into a single partition, if you need anything from those partitions make back-ups of that data before you start.


Do these steps in order to complete this successfully and be sure to post back with any further questions you may have and to keep us informed.

Partition : Recover Space Used by an Older OS

 

[gregrocker]

You apparently overwrote your Recovery Partition with the Pro install.

Where did you get the installer and how do you plan to activate it? Were you just wanting to try it?

The correct way if you want to Upgrade Premium would be to Anytime Upgrade from Premium to Pro using an Anytime Upgrade Key (cheaper) or a Win7 Pro Retail key.

Which one do you want to keep - confirm it's drive letter. We will give you the steps to remove the other one and recover the space back into Win7.