Windows 7 Pro - HDD problems etc when upgraded from Vista !!!

[westmore34]

Hi Hope you can help with this one? A few year back I bought the Acer Aspire 9301 loaded with Vista, AMD Turion processor and a 80 Gb HDD. I had loads of problems with Vista so I decided to upgrade the OS with a genuine copy of Win7 Pro(full version). 2 problems ocurred, one is system info only displays 40 gig divided into 2 partitions and secondly, can't get any Acer support software to work - can't find anything for Win7 on their website?

 

The solution I thought of for the HDD was too wipe the HDD(2 partitions created by Win7, I think) in command prompt(format) and completely reinstall Win7 Pro, not sure if that would work though or if it would accept the product key again?

 

Thanks

 

Michael - Liverpool UK

[Armageddon]

Hello Michael your best way would be wipe the drive and start afresh , as long as your windows 7 is a full version , boot up with the dvd in wait till it get pasts the windows is loading files etc it will then arrive at the upgrade or custom install , select custom install it will then show your drives if you click delete on both drives it will create 1 drive you can then proceed with a fresh windows 7 install on the one drive , on a 80 gig drive after updates etc and the service pack have installed you will be left with 60 to 65 gig of free space

[KenB]

Just saying hello and welcome.

 

We are neighbours ( Wirral ) :)

[Plastic Nev]

Hi and a welcome from me too.

As a further addition to Armageddon's good advice, if you can afford it, why not fit a new and bigger drive? Then just follow up what Armageddon said.

The old 80GB drive can then be fitted to an enclosure and used as an external drive.

 

Nev.

[westmore34]

Just saying hello and welcome.

 

We are neighbours ( Wirral ) :)

 

Hi Ken B thanks for saying hello - I'm Michael over here in Liverpool City Centre L3, hope your doing alright.

 

Hi to Armaggedon and Plastic Nev as well, really appreciate your advice. I'll look into getting a larger hard drive as you suggest when I've hopefully sorted out this cantankerous 80 gig one.

 

Thanks again,

 

Michael