Acer :: Installed Win 7 Pro Wrong On My 1810TZ

I have an 1810TZ and then I bought an 1810T. (Long Story)

My problem is with the TZ:
I made an Image of the system, as suggested, then I "Upgraded" the Win 7 Home system to Pro.
But I screwed up by installing the 32bit version instead of the 64bit.

The only way it would let me come back to the 64bit version of Pro was to do a "Clean install".

Here’s my problem:
1) Now the PC takes a Loooong Time to boot.

2) The PC has a 320Gb HDD but shows only 185Gb of "Total space" on C: .

The T with the same HDD, shows 285Gb total space.

Wow... Win 7 Pro takes 35GB of disk space? Did I do something wrong here too?

3) Now there is a hidden "System" D: drive using 100Mb, that was not there before.

I don't know how to get rid of the D: drive. It won't let me delete it or access it.

Something is weird here. I did not install any applications yet.

The PC does not recognize the "Image Disks" I made.

I started to re-install Win 7 Pro… but I didn't think that would get rid of the D: drive or fix the problem, so I didn't do it.

I think I need to re-format the HDD. But I'm not sure how to do it right and don't want to make things worse.

This is not the DOS 3.1 machine I used to have.

On the other hand:
When I got the 1810T I did a “Clean install” of WIN 7 Pro 64bit before I did anything else. There are no problems with the "T".

I ordered a Factory System Disk for the "TZ" from Acer and it should be here in a couple of days. I ordered it before I found this forum.