How do I clean/ reformat partitioned internal hard drive Windows 7 Side on MacBook Pro 17"

Hello,
I would like to clean up / reformat the Windows 7 side of my partitioned hard drive, and then re-install.  
Any direction - advise will be appreciated.

Have you tried booting directly to the Windows 7 DVD instead of running setup.exe from Boot Camp?  Hold down "Option" as soon as you hear the chime on restart, and eventually you'll be presented with available boot options.
Otherwise, then, yes, Disk Utilities would be the way to go.  Mount your Boot Camp partition in the sidebar to the left, and then choose to Erase the partition as FAT32.  That should set you up to be able to write to that partition during the install process.
But I recommend booting from the DVD directly first, though.
HTH,
S.

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