I just bought a new Acer Laptop and it came with Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit and a 320gb HDD. There are two issues I have. One, the hdd is partitioned into 2 140gb drives and whatever else for the other 40gigs(doesn't show). I would like to combine it all into 1 drive and free up the missing space. Two, the thing came loaded with crapware. I removed most of it and removed the unnecessary stuff from startup. However I'm still kind of convinced stuff's there that doesn't need to be. So basically what I'm getting at here is I figured a fresh install of windows should handle both problems. Not a restore via the Acer supplied utilities but a new copy of windows and I have a couple questions about that. Do I need to run some sort of partitioning program to re-combine the drive, or can I do this via windows install? Also, I believe windows' keys are specific to each copy, as in I couldn't use the key provided with my laptop with a copy of windows I downloaded? I'm not trying to purchase windows when I already have it. Or if anyone knows how I can achieve these things without going through all this mess please let me know. Thanks.