Attempt of deletion, repartitioning of a pre-installed HARD drive for Win7 (from Vista Home Prem)

Hello

I just bought a 2nd hand Dell 1545, who had a virus on his Seagate 250 GB HDD that is preinstalled on the device from Dell.
The disc has a healthy 39 M, a partition of primary health of 14.65 GB OEM partition and a 218,20 GB of free space, which took me 3 days
to remove the handles of some unknown reformatting of limitation.
The machine originally had Vista Home Premium SP1 on it, that I intend to upgrade with my copy of Win 7 retail.
This is, as I understand it, Win7 need a 20 GB partition.
How can I get the 3 partitions to merge and be a whole HARD disk, so I can create a new partition for the SYS OP to reinstall?
I already tried this, nothing done... and I tried disk management, but that fails miserably, too.  Suggestions?
The HARD drive contains nothing that I know that I already wiped the separate partitions as it became possible to do.
Hope this is enough information for a person to bring their expertise to solve and that I'm posting in the right place.
Thank you very much in advance for any help.

Boot from the Windows 7 DVD

Click Install now

Accept the license agreement

When the option is displayed to select a type of installation, click (Custom advanced)

Click on drive Options

Select the disc/s click on Delete

Click new

Click on apply

Click OK

Click Format, and then click next to proceed with the installation

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