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Hi! You may create no more than three primary partions (if you create a fourth one the whole HDD would be considered as dynamic as soon as you include another drive). After the third primary partition you may create so many logical units as you wish. After including a first logical unit the whole remaining HDD becomes automatically an extended partition. You may see it as a light-blue coloured disk space at the disk manager. HTH

Even when I never noticed it before because I never send but text files, I've checked out sending photos using Thunderbird by rightclicking "Send to email" and the size message also appeared to me. I was wrong, I'm afraid. Thanks for your correction!

The GUI says my drive is 'Bad'. I'm thinking this is just a generic message to a disk that cannot be accessed? AFAIK if you receive a message of "Bad" it means that the disk was found (there is no message at all if the device is not detected). If wiping it is not allowed by Partition Wizard it may be due to any of the causes described by jaclaz, or eventually because the device heads were not in a perfect condition and became damaged while removing it. HTH

You may download the "Partition Wizard" .iso file ("Free Download Bootable CD Now!"), to burn a Live CD and use it to wipe first the whole contents of the HDD, then partition and format every partition using the same Live CD. HTH

Hi dencorso: I've seen your message just now. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and best wishes to you and all yours, and to all our visitors cannie

Hi Kelsenellenelvian: I unwillingly omitted that option. Thanks for your correction. cannie

AFAIK the Control Panel screen doesn't allow any easy changes. HTH

AFAIK it means that the question is posed to you after your mail client is running and not before. In that moment the Windows Explorer SendTo function is already accomplished (it only takes care of putting your file into the mail client and opening it), so the question doesn't come from Windows but from the mail client. If it doesn't give you the possibility of configuring it properly to avoid such questions you could move to a different one. I use Thunderbird and when I rightclick on "Send to email client" there are no questions at all. HTH

Hi Hhgygy: "Sendto" options are at hidden links placed at C:\Users\(here your user name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo\(here all sendto links) You may supress any of them by simply deleting its direct access link (you must of course previously configure your file manager to show hidden files). HTH

Even when Windows 7 only offers to you the possibility of burning a recovery disk after building a disk image into an external HDD, in this case using an external USB optical drive, you may afterwards copy the whole contents of your recovery disk into a previously Fat32 formatted pendrive and use it in the future as boot flash device instead of the optical drive. PS: You may clone the existing OS into a logical unit of your HDD keeping all recovery options as explained at paragraph "2.4.1. - Clone the preinstalled Windows 7" of this tutorial: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/144084-duplicate-windows-7-into-the-hdd-using-a-linux-live-pendrive/ HTH

Hi n3wb13: IMHO the first thing to do is finding the needed XP drivers for the new hardware. I had a similar experience with a new laptop and I could not find them, so I had to restore the previously saved image file. HTH

Latest changes: - Paragraph 7 text was improved. HTH

Hi jaclaz: You are right: It's too late to thank you all (it's a long time since the Windows 7 tutorial was done) and too soon for Christmas (some two weeks before). Well, maybe I've unconsciously tried to repair my fault now by doing just the opposite Best wishes anyway. cannie.

I'm afraid I forgot to say here that the wide experience obtained all along this thread was essential to build a similar tutorial for Windows 7. But I've not forgotten the help I received then, and even a rather late I wish to thank dencorso, jaclaz, MDGx and all others for their help. HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL

AFAIK results are the same, being the only difference a more user-friendly interface.

Also the old pserv2.exe (freeware) may be useful for this purpose. It keeps working under Windows 7. The last version may be downloaded from here: http://p-nand-q.com/download/pserv_cpl.html HTH

After installing the same Windows version you may activate it using the "Product key", to be found into the product label at the bottom of the laptop (valid for both 64 and 32 bits working modes). This is not the solution you are asking for, but it could nevertheless be a good option. HTH

If your pendrive has got an "autorun.inf" file you may alternatively try to change its name by editing its content this way: [autorun] name=FPO HTH

Hi Albator: The original activation key may be used after reinstalling Windows 7 to activate it again whenever the same Windows version is installed. It is nevertheless allowed to use the same key for both 32 and 64 bits working modes. HTH

Latest changes: - Ligth error corrections. HTH

The whole text has been reviewed after detecting that the previously given link for downloading Knoppix did not download it any more, also opening the way to any similar Linux distro by simply recommending it for improved flexibility and changing as a result of that the name of the thread. Also paragraphs 5.9 and 5.10 have been improved concerning the use of WinPE pendrives, including attention call. Link to download EasyBCD didn't work any more and has been replaced, and link to Winrar was updated. HTH

Concerning this I've modified paragraph 4.6 and added paragraph 4.8 to explain better this convenience. Greetings.

Hi xpJohnson: I've numbered your questions for a better answer, as usual: 1.- The only folders into which files must be deleted are "Program Data" and "Users", and the only ones to be deleted are those ending with the .lnk extension just at the root of both folders (the ones that you see when you first click into each one of both seeming like subfolders but their names ending with .lnk). Only the "Microsoft" subfolder from the ProgramData folder has a content (AFAIK), being all other "folders" which appear beside it simple access links. These access links are not needed at all, but some of them redirect you again and again to already copied folders. This generates an unendless copy process which ruins any copy work. The same happens with the .lnk files found at the root of the "Users" folder. In this case (AFAIK) only "Administrator", "Public" and "(user named)" subfolders have a content, being all other apparent subfolders simple .lnk files, some of them generating also an unendless copy process which would ruin your copy work. Mention to arrows was wrong (they appear while using other file managers, but not at KNOPPIX) and has been corrected. 2.- Well, this is easy. Look at their names and you'll see ".lnk" at the end of each one of them. 3.- If you click on the second icon found at left under the initial KNOPPIX screen you'll get a graphic file manager interface into which you are able to see all folders. You must look for the .lnk extension (no arrows at all) beside the subfolder names at the root of both mentioned folders. HTH

I've checked out the same computer using 4 GB running first on 64 bits mode and afterwards 32 bits. Performance check gives almost totally equal results. 64 bits improves if you increase memory . HTH

Latest changes: - A failure while doing some text improvements forced me to rebuild the whole text using a previously saved updated copy. Sorry for it. cannie