Recovery CD - clean install and new partitions or install over old OS?

I have a T400s running Windows 7. While using the factory recovery tool, the restore was interrupted. The OS wouldn't boot and the F11 function was disabled.
I ordered the recovery CDs, which will arive today. Now, there are 3 partitions on my ThinkPad: a boot partition, the OS partition, and the recovery CD partition. My question is this. Will the Recovery CD do a clean install ... wiping all 3 partitions and reinstalling the entire OS and recovery partitions to the factory state? Or will it simply reinstall the OS in the OS partition, leaving everything else alone? Thanks.
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Since you'll have the Recovery Media, you could elect to simply remove the recovery partition. This can be done through Disk Management (right-click Computer in Start Menu and choose Manage). The drive should be set up with the Service Partition, the C: partition, and then the Q: partition. If you delete the Q: partition you can then extend the C: partition.

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My daughter's Macbook Air suffered the 'hinge' problem, and was returned to Apple for service. Some idiot at the Apple Depot did a clean install of OS X for absolutely NO reason.
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