Recovery Windows Reinstall - How to preserve partitions

Hi,
I have tried to  recover my Windows 7 installation through the Receovrery Manage: restart, ESC, chose F11 for system recovery.
Several options are shown to restore/recover/reinstall...
I expected the system to ask me in which partition I wanted to reinstall (I had 3 partitions: C: (system) and 2 additional partitions that I had created).
But I could not find any option to choose the partition.
Since I had backed up the whole disk drive, I took a chance and chose to reinstall "in the windows disk" (or somehting like that).
The result is that the entire Disk has been reformatted before Windows was installed. The partions have been crashed and all data deleted.
Could you please let me know what the procedure is in order to reinstall Windows 7 directly in the C: drive, without having the whole drive reformatted, so that newxt time it could save me some time of having to recreate my partitions and restore the data ?
Thanks for your support.
CR

Based on the document dindin has referenced, either the System Recovery and the Minimized Image Recovery can leave user created partitions intact;
The System Recovery option does the following:
Reformats the system drive. The system drive is the hard drive where the current operating is installed (such as the C: drive).
Re-installs the original operating system on the system drive.
Re-installs all original hardware drivers.
Re-installs all original trial software.
Does not remove or disrupt any customer-created partitions.
In some cases, the System Recovery process might require more hard drive space than the system drive actually has. If the system drive is part of a partitioned hard drive, one or more partitions can be de-partitioned to give the System Recovery process the space it requires. Otherwise, customer-created partitions will remain intact.
and
Minimized Image Recovery does the following:
Re-installs the original operating system.
Re-installs all original hardware drivers.
Re-installs HP essential software (i.e., HP Support Assistant, HP Recovery Manager, etc.).
Does not install trial applications or trial games.
If there are customer-created partitions on the hard drive, the HP Recovery Manager prompts you for permission to remove them or leave them intact.
If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
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