How would I pull off an operating system change like this?

Basically, I have a laptop that came pre-installed with Windows Vista, and I also have an upgrade disk to Windows 7. An option on the Windows 7 disk is to do a clean in-stall of 7, without copying setting and the such over from Vista. What I'm want to do is install Windows 7, and move (or copy) the partition with Vista on it over to another harddrive, so that I don't have two operating systems on the computer. Does anyone have any idea if this would be possible, or how I would pull off copying the entire partition containing Vista?How would I pull off an operating system change like this?
pretty sure that isn't possible. you can install windows 7 and have it move all the files from your vista operating system to a separate folder, and copy those files somewhere else, but the operating system wont boot.How would I pull off an operating system change like this?
Either option will get rid of Windows Vista altogether, and it's really hard to go back even with the original install/recovery disks. You will never have two versions of Windows after you upgrade. You don't need to do any copying/deleting. In Installation, just select custom, and select the partition that Vista is installed on, and Windows 7 will completely erase everything on that partition.How would I pull off an operating system change like this?
Just backup your documents and such and do the full install of Win 7. what will happen is you will have the option to do the custom install and then you format the harddrive wiping everything and then installs Win7.



It doesn't make any sense to what you think you want to do