Recent content by John-stpaul

I re-commission a number of business class mini-tower computers (HP & Dell mostly) re-installing Win 7 or replacing XP with Win 7 pro. Most of the time the Win 7 install protocol creates a small partition 0 (for certain system maintenance functions, I'm told), about 50 MB, along with a partition...

I installed Win 7 Pro on an XP computer intending to replace XP with 7. To recover disk space I deleted the Windows.old folder. Now when the computer boots I get a screen asking user to select the previous system or Windows 7. But there is no previous system--just some scraps apparently, that...