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yes, outlook express. I will look into it.

Mark, thanks for your insights.



I was just referring to the fact that a perfectly useful paid-for operating system unpleasantly demanded proof that it was paid for when put into a new machine....

PS - glad that's behind me. Its been a bit of an emotional rollercoaster, because i love the idea of getting people to recover from their addiction to proprietary software and am willing to go to...

the disk management utility in windows 7 can be found by opening the control panel and typing "partitions"

after deleting the swap and ubuntu partitions, you will also need to delete the extended...

when you get to a screen which gives you these options:

startup repair (Useless: does not detect a problem with windows 7)
system restore
system image recovery
windows memory diagnostic...

great! i found an easy way to do it, which is to use unetbootin! :

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

thanks so much for your patience. inside the boot folder there are only the files:

bcd
boot.sdi
bootfix.bin

is it bootfix.bin?

maybe i can just make it bootable from within ubuntu and...

ok, got the file downloaded and unpacked, but i get an error when I run the command bootsect.exe /nt60 D:

'bootsect.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or...

sweet! thank you darko! the only problem is, its a netbook, it doesn;t have a CD reader. will this work with a USB key, too?

I installed ubuntu on a friend's netbook and she hated it because it was not windows. ARRRGH! I want to get this woman's computer out of my life, but first I need to undo any changes I have made.
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