X60 Preloaded w/ Vista, currently running Windows 7, needs to reformat

I have a Thinkpad X60 that came with Windows Vista Business Edition, installed Windows 7 Professional when it came out. I want to clean everything off of the hard drive but keep Windows 7 on there. Is it true that if I use the "ThinkVantage" button it will just get everything off of the hard drive and reinstall Vista instead of Windows 7? Is there any other way to reformat the drive without reinstalling 7? Thanks in advance.

so you are saying that you currently have the windows 7 on it with the vista recovery partition?
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