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To: PMS Witch who wrote (80197)	11/27/2012 12:58:00 PM
From: Mario :-)	2 Recommendations Respond to of 110653

Thank you for your detailed help. You know so much! I stopped being guru sometime by Win97 and now I'm mostly clueless with new development and technologies. Funny, my new laptop's OS (win 7) after few days decided it is not genuine any more. Just after I finished cleaning mountain of bloatware. MS technical support tried with new product key and it didn't work. They told me I need to do factory default and then I can enter new product key. No way I'm going to get all that crap back lol So I downloaded Win 7 iso and start installing it, formatted previous OS partition and that was it. This disk didn't use MBR partition table but some new G** something (forgot) system and I could not install Win 7 on it. (why do they have to keep complicate things?!?) OK, no biggie, there are two HDD in this laptop and I decided to install Windows 7 on second HDD - thankfully it was MBR type. Done. But that first HDD will not stop messing with me lol Computer was keep booting from this first HDD and ended with big red ERROR msg over whole screen. Even after I installed Win 7 on the other HDD. These things are just getting more and more complicated. Well, I downloaded Gparted, burned ISO file on CD, boot from it and deleted everything from rebel HDD, reformatted it to NTFS and now I finally have brand new, clean, crapware free Win 7 and another empty HDD for data. Interestingly, there is no 200MB hidden partition any more. Looks like it happened what you mentioned, in must be in the system. Great, I like it that way better. So when I create image of OS partition I will image everything that I need for possible future restore. No more "do I need to include that hidden partition" questions. I see, things can still be simple but you have to put some work into it. But they are doing everything to prevent my grandmother from doing it. Heck, soon I'm going to be helpless with all these changes. Anyway, just wanted to thank you for all you are sharing with all of us. You really are true computer guru!