Format HARD drive or re - install

Pavilion g6 1201-tx. Win 7 HB 64 bit. HARD drive 640 GB.

For a year now, I bought g6. I think g6 went too slow, clumsy, and it does not give me performance as expected from it.

So should I format drive HARD whole, delete all partitions, repartition the and do all of these tasks and then re-install OR

should I just re-install Win 7?

Issues related to the:

(1) should I use the recovery discs to re - install Win 7 or I can download a newer version of Win 7 HB 64 bits from Microsoft so that it will contain all the updates?

(2) If I use recovery disks, then it will format my default HARD drive or there is the option to choose the partition to install? He'll take care of the boot (partiton ID:0) partition ?

It will create HP_TOOLS and partition recovery again on my HARD drive as it was when I bought my g6?

(3) If I install downloaded Win 7 HB, which HP software are a MUST to install as software framework and mention also why necessary?

(4) I want to install 1 or several Linux distributions, then what should be the order of partition? Such as:

C for Win 7
D for the personal data
E for Linux
F for Swap
G for Linux_2
and so on.

Who should be the extended partition ?

How much space should be given for Win 7: C drive? 50 GB enough for all the software basic / essential?

I have to manually resize the aura boot partition? What should be its size. 200 MB? I want to install Linux so GRUB can take more space.

 

Thank you!


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Say hello to new VAHPG6.

The boot partition will be formatted by the recovery process.  I don't think, however, that you will need more than 200 MB to install GRUB.  So, I'd leave this one partition.

This guide should be useful for the dual-boot.  If you read the section about dual boot Vista and Linux (with Vista installed first), he must have some of the answers you're looking for.  Windows Vista is pretty close to Windows 7 that the instructions would be the same.

Have a great day.

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