Clean Install Windows 7

That's very helpful. Thank you.

I dread getting the internet connection up and running. I have a connection on the machine I'm using to post this and will take the USB connection out and over to the new machine when Windows has finished installing. From then on it's seat of my trousers stuff till I get the internet up and running on the new machine.

I'll worry about that when it happens. I'm now going to print out the Tutorial.

Thanks again.:)

I disconnected the mechanical Drive while installing Windows and have now reconnected it.

Windows 7 seems to have installed fine but when I tried to download MSE I got a message saying no network Driver was detected. I scratched my head for a while but then popped in the Motherboard disc and selected the drivers section. BINGO!

I now have a net connection and am presently relaxing, a tad relieved, watching a stack of Windows Updates being installed.

So far there is no indication of any reserved portion on my 120Gig SSD (C Drive) where Windows is installed. Is this something I should fix? If so- how?

By the by, does MSE go into the C drive as part of the operating system or do I pop that into the D (mechanical) drive or do I not get any choice in the matter?

Great work on this tutorial. A quick note on a potentially improvement, though.

I've reinstalled xp in the past and the activation key was easily obtainable by going to the system info window and reading it from the screen. Well now in windows 7 there's a wonderful 25 digit product id code on the same screen that is different than the 25 digit activation key Microsoft has embedded deep in the registry. This was a nice little quirk I didn't discover until after overwriting my harddrive, reinstalling windows, and trying to activate windows using my 25 digit product id.

If you are feeling especially generous, up there in the fine print for os reinstallers where you mention saving your drivers and such, a quick reminder for people to ensure they've recorded the correct activation key embedded in the registry via the magicaljellybean keyfinder or the like could be helpful. Would probably help those people in the future like me who think they know just enough about computers to get themselves into a pickle.

Again, thanks again for the work you've put into this.

.... question please ... after i reinstall the windows and look into task scheduler to disable some unnecessary tasks , i found that there is nothing there , clean , not a single task , 100% clean , nothing at all.
it is not normal right ? , should i do anything , should i reinstall the windows , or should i just leave it there because the windows is running 90% normal , everything is fine but sometime i get un-IDed lag , like when i alt tab out of a game , wmp stops for 1 sec then resume , other than that i dont see anything abnormal

i thought usually windows will have tasks of it own , like check HDD everyday , check system files , and defrag every weeks ....