yes i confirm that if partition of 100mb is hidden wow7 not work. When partition of 100mb is visible with letter (i assigned X the script work and active windows 7, but copy the files FLOPPY.IMG, GLDR, menu.lst, menu.lst.bak also in Windows Vista partition (E
It turns out there was a small flaw in the partition handling code that caused it not to work, I did not notice this however because I do not have such a partition. It is now fixed with new link in post
Well, I'm reinstalling 7 again since DVD boot fixing didn't fix the "_" problem ! So, I should first assignate to X the hidden partition before patching, right ? Will the loader be silent with no grub boot text ? I think it will be nice in order t obtain a "real" activated 7 !
Good question ! Maybe it depends on if there is already a SLIC or not in your BIOS ? Based on my own experience, I saw that branded PC's are often more difficult to activate than the others. Also, some BIOS like the APTIO's ones seems to be hard to activate, too. Maybe the BIOS emulation interfers with the real BIOS SLIC when booting Windows ?
format and reistall windows 7 rtm 32 or 64bit and use only 7loader present in this forum...not wow7.0.1b, but "7 Loader 1.4"....after install windows, click slic 2.1 and wait some seconds than select "dell" certifcate...wait some seconds, than click "7 loader", wait to restart. If no active change notebook !!!