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  1. Posts : 18
    Windows 7 Home Premium 32 Bit
       #120

    Great tutorial. Thank you so much.

    I have one question though. regarding step 8


    My computer came with 3 partitions. 1 C drive and the other 2 are Utilities and recovery backups. I've made a recovery discs already and want to get rid of these 2 drives and have just one C drive with windows 7.

    At step 8 do I just highlight those drives and click delete and that space will transfer over to my C drive? Or do I press Format? What does the Extend button do?


    I have a vista 32 bit doing a clean install using windows 7 upgrade disc.

    thanks for the help and tutorial.
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  2. Posts : 71,977
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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       #121

    Hello Steve, and welcome to Seven Forums.

    Correct, you would select each partition on the C: disk and click on delete to have one unallocated space at the end. :)
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  3. Posts : 18
    Windows 7 Home Premium 32 Bit
       #122

    Brink said:
    Hello Steve, and welcome to Seven Forums.

    Correct, you would select each partition on the C: disk and click on delete to have one unallocated space at the end. :)
    thanks Brink, appreciate the welcome and the effort you put into making these tutorials.

    can't wait to start windows7 :)

    edit: sorry forgot to ask. after i delete the unwanted partitions, i highlight my C drive to install it, but do i first click format then "next".
    sorry about such basic questions, never installed an OS before.
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  4. Posts : 71,977
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
    Thread Starter
       #123

    It's fine to just leave it selected for the unallocated disk, and click Next.
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  5. Posts : 23
    Win7 Home Premium 64-bit
       #124

    Is it normal that the Win7 Clean Install required me to create a 100MB System Reserved partition prior to installing Win7?

    This happened right after I deleted all of my old partitions and reformatted.
    Thanks!
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  6. Posts : 71,977
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
    Thread Starter
       #125

    gpzbc said:
    Is it normal that the Win7 Clean Install required me to create a 100MB System Reserved partition prior to installing Win7?

    This happened right after I deleted all of my old partitions and reformatted.
    Thanks!
    Yes, it's perfectly normal. This is Windows 7 System Reserved partition used for BitLocker and for recovery options. :)
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  7. Posts : 23
    Win7 Home Premium 64-bit
       #126

    Ah yes, Thank you! And thanks so much for this tutorial. It was right by my side throughout my fresh install of Win7 64-bit.
    And the whole process was a success.... and painless!!
    Thanks.
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  8.    #127

    Brink said:
    It's fine to just leave it selected for the unallocated disk, and click Next.
    Does Win7 format unallocated space by default? Just askin.
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  9. Posts : 71,977
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
    Thread Starter
       #128

    gpzbc said:
    Ah yes, Thank you! And thanks so much for this tutorial. It was right by my side throughout my fresh install of Win7 64-bit.
    And the whole process was a success.... and painless!!
    Thanks.
    You're welcome Gpzbc. :)
      My Computer


  10. Posts : 71,977
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
    Thread Starter
       #129

    gregrocker said:
    Brink said:
    It's fine to just leave it selected for the unallocated disk, and click Next.
    Does Win7 format unallocated space by default? Just askin.
    Hi Greg,

    Yep, during a clean or custom installation Windows 7 will automatically format a unallocated space during the installation process if it was selected to install Windows 7 on. :)
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