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I have a clean install of wins7 on a new hdd, I just want to know how to do it. I'm in a search for knowledge. Also is there a way that I can put my wins 7 in hidden partition, so I can that can be restore in the same fashion? In other...

Thanks alot qhn that gives me a little more detail, because this one, http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/578/w...rom-harddrive/ doesn't say which tools are necessary. I checked to see if PQService was hidden and it shows hidden,...

I have since found out what the preload tags are and what they're use for. Any way before starting this operation I imaged my whole drive, I wish, I had of done partition by partition. I may put that image on another hdd and work on it...

Now I Alt+F10 works and goes thru recovery mode but still not loading xp. Any ideas what might be happening?

I have been trying to restore acer aspire 3620. During recovery it says "can not find file C:/preload. 1. Is there a pre load for C & D drives or have my drives been remapped for restoration. 2.Can I just copy the 3 preload...

Everything that was on my C;/ drive is now on D:/ I think that is why preload tag

I'm almost thinking my drives have been remapped. I'm using mini-winsxp on hbcd and I can see preload.aaa PRELOAD.REV PRELOAD.TAG

Before I started I made an image of my hdd, so I'm not too worried. I have another hdd with wins 7 on it, so I'm going to put the drive in an inclosure and make the changes that I need to make.

I just used testdisk and I think that I have the 2 items copied to home folder. winmbr.exe & rtmbr.bin. I imaged my drive using clonezilla before performing so I think I'm safe.

I think I haven't really explained what I'm trying to do clearly. I installed windows with the help of M$ technician. Using a Dell cd He only had me install to C:/ PQ was left untouched 1. I'm trying to restore laptop to factory setup....