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Originally Posted by XanthosV6
Alternatively you could try using a disk management utility to recover some of the space from your vista partition, and set up a dual boot... if you end up liking 7 enough, you can just wipe it and do a fresh install.
And if you don't you could wipe that part and reintegrate it.
- Xanthos
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Yup. This probably is a better option than wiping the machine.
And there's actually tools included with the Vista/Windows 7 installers to do this. Little known trick... once you're in the installer you can hit Shift+F10 and it will pop up a command prompt. If your machine has one partition you can shrink it down by running the following commands...
diskpart
select disk 0
select partition 1
shrink
Then in the installer you will see the empty space and you should be able to select it and install Windows 7 there.