Full install of Win 7 on my y510

Okay, so I've had my novo y510 for a year now - and have experienced the usual bugs and problems. My 30 GB partition is full, so much so that I can no longer hibernate (insufficient hard disk space to write the hibernation file), nor can I defrag (again, not enough space on the partition). I dual boot my machine with puppy linux, I've got a bunch of smaller partitions that do nothing, and to top things off, the right hinge broke last night.
But I really do love this machine.
So Lenovo support is fixing my hinge (for free --- I'm out of warranty by a couple of months), and now I'm toying with a plan to start over, get a fresh new copy of Win 7 and do a full install.
My question is: Do you think this will be a [relatively] smooth transistion? I mean, I'm backing up all my data, and ditching all my programs (though I am transferring adobe photoshop and illustrator), but I'm worried about device and hardware drivers (i.e., webcam, media buttons, bluetooth, and wireless nic). I really am sick of the whole novo partition thing, it's really frustrating and I just want to do a full install on one partition (the full 250 GB) and move on.
Is this a good idea? Or should I consider an upgrade instead? (the cost of the full version vs. upgrade isn't really an issue)

I've got 7 and none of my drivers work. I'm running 64bit though.
I tried to use the one key recovey but it won't work since I merged my C with my D drive. If you could do me a favor and go to administrative tools and disk management to find out the EXACT size in Mb your C drive is that would be great.
the one key recovery only works if the C drive is identical to what it was out of the factory. If I can restore vista I'm going to try to upgrade to windows 7 rather than full install to see what software will carry over. And I'll let you know how it works

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Hi @sempi112 ,
I see that you are experiencing issues with installing the printer on the two computers running Windows 8.1, but you didn't have any issues with the Windows 7 computers. I will certainly do my best to help you.
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Reregister the Window Installer:
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Hi,
Thanks for your sharing on how to clean install Windows 8.1.
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Flash Player 10 download goes through install procedure and says it is installed but it is not.
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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:51:01 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Flash Player 10 Not installing on Win 7 64 bit PC
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