Hmmm, reading this thread through many times to see if there's something I can do to help. Before I decided to flash I read a lot about the loaders. It seems some of the loaders use a hidden partition that's created by Win7 when it installs (100 mb?) and then there's the main Win7 partition. Did you check if you have a small 100 mb partition as well? If so, both needs to be deleted I think. I might be shooting blanks here, just trying to help EDIT: As this partition is hidden, if you have it, it will not have any drive letter so you can't see it in Explorer. But you can see it in any partitioning tool.