sdicomp,

Thank you for contacting the Dell Community Forum.  The Windows 7 upgrade typically does not have a negative effect on the recovery partition, because it doesn't overwrite or erase it.  You should be able to upgrade to Windows 7 and have the recovery partition available if needed.

I upgraded from 32 bit Vista Home Premium to 64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium. The recovery partition is still there with the same contents.♠

Since I'm moving to W7 as soon as my discs come can I just delete this vista recovery partition when I perform the upgrade?

I have a question that goes along with the one posted by 'Gran Paradiso' above:

If I delete the contents of the OEM Vista recovery partition and leave the partition there, is there some way to create Win 7 recovery files and put them there?

Gran Paradiso,

Thank you for contacting the Dell Community Forum.  If you don't want to keep the Vista recovery partition, you can delete it, although I'm not sure you can do that during the upgrade process itself (disk management options typically are provided during a clean install, but may not be available during the upgrade).  But in a worst-case scenario, you should be able to delete the recovery partition from disk management after the upgrade is complete.

Thank you Chris.

DELL-Chris Bu

Your answers are always useless and not well informed, why does your name even say Dell.

Everyone you can do a clean install, make sure you let Win7 delete the partitions and make a new one with about 15 gigs, I am working on a new boot partition so I can reinstall from the machine itself instead of from DVD's, Dell should of done this for us!

Sounds like someone needs to "Lightie" up! :emotion-6:

I did the upgrade installation earlier today and was not given the opportunity to manage the partitions; as it is only done during a clean install. The key word in the whole exchange was 'upgrade'. If I had chosen to do the 'custom' (ie clean) installation, I would have been prompted to choose what partition in which to install. (In fact, during my first run, I did choose Custom; and decided that I would rather sacrifice a bit more time for the install and still have all of my personal settings transferred to the new installation.)

And to say that Dell should of (sic) done this for us, well; that's why there are options - so people can choose what they want to do.

So, honestly; back off a bit Lightie. The question was not about whether or not GP could or could not do a clean install, it was whether or not GP could delete the partition...

I would still like to have an (intelligent, reasoned) answer to the question that I posted in this thread, though.

dwd

Forgive me all, I am a newbie to this so please be kind to me! :emotion-5:

I have a similar issue to those who have enquired above.

I have 32-bit Vista on an XPS 420 and I want to upgrade to 64-bit Windows 7. Obviously I will need to do a fresh install, however my questions are:

1)  Will Windows 7 create its recovery partition in the existing Vista Recovery Partition?

2)  As my Windows 7 will be an upgrade install, will I need to keep the Vista Recovery Partition to boot from in an emergency, or can this be done from the Windows 7 upgrade?