recovery partition

Hi all I know i can upgrade from vista to 7 but what i want to do is keep the recovery partition for vista in place on the hard drive and format drive C to do a clean install of windows 7. Is this possible or will windows 7 alter the recovery partition when i install. Thanks in advance.

Hi all, im not really a computer wizz and dont know what exactly to do here. I have never liked vista at all ever. i throught i would give it a whirl to download (windows 7). I have a duo boot menu log in now, which i think is perfect. Window vista or Windows 7. After installing window 7 ...

Im in somewhat of a sticky pickle. I have spent all day googling, going through my OS's, and I cant find a fix. Everytime I log in, I receive a BSOD telling me of a SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION. It usually appears immediately after I get to the desktop. I get a message telling me of the previous...

Background: Windows 7 RC patched, new Dell Vostro 220 2GB RAM, 75GB HDD C:, 250GB HDD I:, 80 GB external HDD, optical (CD/DVD-RW) drives, floppy drive, lovely new Kodak ESP5 All-in-One inkjet printer, etc. Because the C: drive has everything on it, it is quite crowded. (It contains W7, W2K Pro...

I would like to switch back to Windows XP from the Windows 7 I recently installed yesterday. I've had nothing but driver issues since it's installation. It doesn't recognize my monitor resolution, Aero doesn't work with my chipset, which basically makes Windows 7 look like an amateur Linux...

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Windows 7 includes its own pretty little recovery partition, which uses a non-standard format (UGGH!). I'd like to remove it from my laptop multiboot system. Anyone know if this will cause problems? I use GRUB as my bootloader. The tail end of my grub file looks like this: title Windows 7...

Hello there, I am running Windows 7 on the partition that I labeled "Win7Beta". The drive letter appears in Windows Vista as "W" drive. (I am running Windows Vista and Windows 7 Beta on the same computer, but different partitions.) Also in Vista, the Local Disk appears as "C" drive and the...

Hey everyone! So I clean installed W7 earlier this week. I then tried to install Ubuntu 8.10 to a totally free space (40gb) on the same drive; my c: drive. the Ubuntu install itself went off without a hitch! however... whenever I boot my computer, grub/ubuntu are totally ignored and W7 boots...

I'm really enjoying Windows 7 but a lot of my key programs don't work so I've decided to switch back to XP using my recovery partition. Prior to this installation I had an option at boot that would tell me to press F11 (I think) to start the recovery console. That option is now gone. However...

I've just burned the disc from the ISO and when I try and run setup I get: "The file 'autorun.dll' could not be loaded or is corrupt. Setup cannot continue. Error code is [E 0xE0000100]" I have found a knowledgebase article referring to a problem installing Vista giving this error but...

Here's my situation: I have a Gateway T-6836 running Windows Vista Home Premium. A couple days ago I installed PCLinuxOS on the primary drive, partitioning about 60 GB of the drive for the Linux file system, the rest reserved for Windows (250 GB total HDD capacity). After successfully...