Recent content by June Jack

Thanks for all your help! Will have to leave it now for the weekend but will give what you suggest a try next week and let you know how it goes! :)

You\'re right! Windows Disk Management was telling me that both partitions were 100% free but when I look at it on Partition Wizard it shows that there is indeed stuff there. I was going to try what you suggested but F8 is still not working for me (I see from Google that this is not an uncommon...

Yes it is empty. I tried to reinstall using the Dell disk but the install failed due to \'corrupt or missing file\'. My PC was unusable because Windows had taken over all of the space, and I was clutching at straws! We had a retail version of Windows 7 at home which was purchased to upgrade...

I should probably have mentioned that the 100 MB OEM partition and the 9.77 GB Recovery partition from the original setup are empty. So would it be best to delete them and start over again with the Win 7 reinstall?

I\'ve just had to do a fresh install of Windows 7 on my Dell laptop and my hard drive is 298GB. After the reinstall that\'s divided as follows 100 MB OEM partition (from original setup) 9.77 GB Recovery partition (from original setup) 100 MB System Reserved (System, Active, Primary partition)...