"Spasms" in the taskbar

i don't think it's any of them - usually you'll find them in a 'dell' or 'hp' folder or something like that.

speak again to your vendor, and insist that you get a proper windows 7 install disc, and a valid licence key!

I am creating a system image, and it warned me to check the drive for errors before restoring. As mentioned previously, chkdisk won't run for me, and at this point I'm not sure if it could repair anything, if I got it to run. If I try to use this system image on the new HD - will it work?

Thanks.

I guess I'll find out =] I'll post the results here.
I suppose its worth a shot so I don't have to start over from scratch - reinstalling everything. I'll just create a restore point and revert if it doesn't work/screws up.

Now why didn't I think of that before. I suppose one should (on top of regular backups) be creating an image every couple weeks or month - so this situation doesn't become a serious issue?

Gawd ....

Rich - wouldn't a system image recreate everything on a drive - including the installed files as well as the operating system?

Right - but if Staples provides me a HD under Warranty, it will have Win installed already, and I was thinking of restoring the (current) image on this machine onto the new HD. Is that feasible?

Thanks for your time.

Thanks for the warning Rich =]

I think you may be right though regarding re-installing programs manually. The image I took was of a partitioned drive (a recovery partition). If the new HD is not partitioned, I'm not sure the image will work. However, I know very little of these things ....