Hi Steve, if you make another partition wit will not erase the hidden restore partition. However if something goes wrong with it (Windows7 RC) Microsoft will not support you or help you. It 'may' damage the way the hard drive is read though and you may have to reinstall your original OS from your restore CD/DVD -=-=- I have Windows 7 RC 64 installing on a ASUS K8V-X computer I picked up on the weekend for free I had to put in a hard drive and 1.5 gig of memory and at the same time on My Acer Aspier 5610 with 2 gig of ram I'm installing Windows7 32 I started the laptop 10 min after the start of the 64 install and it is way ahead of the desktop I expect it to finish the basic install as I type this. I have Win 7 64 on my new HP6730b Laptop /4 gig ram now also. All machines have been running the appropriate Win7 Betas without problem. Along with my AV - Avira (free) and Avant browser and Courier 1196b Beta for email. Cheers Mike the mod @ PCTechTalk & vista_ & Win7 http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/vista_/ http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/Win7/ ******* REPLY SEPARATOR ********* On 5/5/2009 at 8:50 PM EddieB wrote: RC = Release Candidate -----Original Message----- From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Aiello Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 8:53 AM To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Windows 7 RC availible Mike couple of questions on this. As my machine has the recovery partition on it will installing this mess that up? Or will I be able to put the OEM back on with out a problem if I don't like win7? And what does RC stand for? Steve --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To subscribe, unsubscribe or modify your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk OR To subscribe to the mailing list, send an email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject. To unsubscribe send email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject. To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join our separate PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------