Installing Win7 from unallocated partitions in HDD

I've have had my GS560 laptop for about 10 days and have been trying to 'personalise' it - mainly to have 'My documents'
(or its Win7 equivalent) to operate from the 'D'drive. Foolishly I did not make a recovery disk at this stage. The result now is that the 'Desktop' is also located on the 'D' drive and that's not what I want.
Since I did not get a copy of Win7 OS on discs, then I am led to believe that the Win7 is on two unallocated partitions on HDD.
Is this so ? and if so, can a 'luddite' like me reinstall Win7 and start all over again?
There is no data on the laptop yet.
Can anybody help?

Yes, I think so.
Any way to re-trace your steps, and put it back
on C? May make things worse!
Win 7 does not have the same file layout
as XP for instance. Documents folder is just a "link" to
the real one, which is at C:\Users\Username\Documents.
Not sure how to help fix it from here, as I can't imagine what
you did.

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