Free windows7 upgrage

I went to get my upgrade via the HP site on a link that clearly stated free shipping, went through all the sign up protocol, only to find out that I am being charged $13 shipping. The point of my gripe is that this charge shows up after I give my personal email to some shmuck company and later find out that all is not what it seems. I then get on with support, and they agree with me that it did state free shipping on the clickable link. And tell me that this is a support issue, and to contact them. I then contact support through email. I then recieve 2 spam emails from HP with no contact about my question for 2 weeks.
Upgraders=BE AWARE

No manufacturer has announced a free upgrade program for systems running Vista Basic. All the offers are for Home Premium/Business/Ultimate. HP and other manufacturers aren't obligated to even offer these free upgrades. We expect them and welcome them,but there is no obligation.
I'm a systems technician for a large company and have been playing with the Windows 7 RC for some time. Our enterprise agreements allowed us access to the MSDN betas also. We've been avoiding Vista in our company but look forward to Windows 7. Sadly there is no direct upgrade path from XP to 7, it does a parallel install, moving the previous OS and files into a Windows.OLD folder on the drive. All the drivers and applications have to be reinstalled after this. For any machine running any version of Vista it is possible to fire the DVD in the drive and have it upgrade to Windows 7.
TLDR: Yes, Microsoft Windows 7 supports a direct upgrade from any existing Vista version to Windows 7. HP's (and Toshiba, Sony, Lenovo...) free upgrade program does not extend to systems that ship with Home Basic.

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The question:
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http://www.warrenblyth.com/remote/probs/iMacHOME-commandLine_s.jpg
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http://www.warrenblyth.com/remote/probs/imac-verifyDiskFAIL_s.jpg
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http://www.warrenblyth.com/remote/probs/homeMac-partitions_s.jpg
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#1 You need a more robust program to fix the Mac boot drive like Alsoft Disk Warrior.
I stopped bothering with using Apple First Aid.
#2 You can lose Windows
#3 Try SuperDuper to clone Mac volume to another HFS+ partition.
HFS has its weaknesses. You probably continued using OS X after freezes or other problems.
Ideal is to reformat and restore both.
If there was a bad sector that is something chkdsk could deal with.
If the bad sector is in the hidden partition tables, you have to reformat.
Reformat is the best way going forward.
Even replacing a disk drive is something you can do. You probably want backup drive for each OS though.
And there are 3rd party disk maintenance programs. And should always be backed up and ready to restore a system without exception. Even if possible to doing trial runs to make sure how to.
I would spend the money to fix the directory in Mac OS X rather than the free reinstall of OS X - after making a bootable clone with SuperDuper, and repairing the clone as well first.
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i hope you can help ne i'm hopeless for now. I have the following Mac
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Superdrive replaced(extern) withSSD Platte (120GB) OCZ Vertex 3
750 GB harddrive with 5400 rpm
I had Snow Leopard installed at the beginning and i got the Update to Lion for free.
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I found some posts with the "Cache_Manager" problem and i "only" should rename the "AppleHFS.sys" and the "AppleMNT.sys" but i never found the files in my Windows installation. I checked "show hidden files" and i bootet in safety mode and also looked as i was in OSX but i can't find this files.
I thought maybe it is a hardware defect so i tried Diablo3 and it works fine. Also a benchmark and a ram test works fine so it should be something with the driver?! but how can i fix it? Can someone help me? I really have no idea anymore...
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Hi,
Well, if you find your Bootcamp/NTFS/Windows partition running out of space, you may want to increase it or decrease it. The OSX Bootcamp utility doesn't allow resizing the NTFS partitio nor does Disk Utility. Here is a free solution ...
NOTE: I've tried this on Windows 7 64bit, but it should work with other windows setups in a similar manner.
Requirements:
1. SysRescueCD (for an NTFS capable 'gparted')
- http://www.sysresccd.org/Download
2. rEFIt bootable CD (or install to hard disk, doesn't matter)
- http://refit.sourceforge.net/doc/c1s5_burning.html
3. Windows XP/Vista/7 CD (depends what you've installed)
- just for a quick 'repair' at the end, no reinstall here!
In short:
1 Shrink Mac partition in OSX's Disk Utility
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4 Boot your Windows CD.
Vista/Windows7 CD -> hit the repair option to fix the boot record.
XP CD -> you may need to go to the administrative shell and type fixboot and then fixmbr.
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One bug I learnt:
if
1. you set the 'boot' flag on the Windows partition in gparted AND
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then
you will find that your Windows partition becomes inaccessible in OS X. Your partition is OK - you can boot in windows etc - OS X just doesn't see it as a NTFS partition.
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3. Reboot, in the rEFIt menu, select the EFI terminal
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5. type _cd /efi/tools_ and hit enter
6. type diskpart and hit enter
7. As the post linked above says, type
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inspect
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For me this was
+select 0+
inspect
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Look at the output of select to make sure you're using the right number - if you have your eyes open it's hard to make a mistake!
Behind the scene details:
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BTW, to sync the GPT with the MBR, there is a tool gptsync. I believe it's a tool from Intel's EFI toobox. It exists as either an efi program (i.e. gptsync.efi, runs when you select it from rEFIt's menu) or as a OSX program (just gptsync, runs when you download it and type 'sudo gptsync').

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New is Windows7 with 64bit version

Syncing to a new iTunes library or computer will erase your iPod. Only if you back up your iPod manually before syncing, you can restore your device from that backup again. A manual backup does not include the sync process.
Do this:
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Transfer your purchases the same way, choosing "transfer purchases" this time.
When you connect your phone for the first time, all media content will be erased. But you can restore your settings and app data from your manual backup afterwards.
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How to back up and restore:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
How to download apps for free again:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
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Windows7 upgrade on hp laptops running vista home basic

hi..
i bought hp dv4-1240TX in july'09.
but i am shocked and cannot find out whether HP will provide me free upgrade to windows7 or not as microsoft promises me an upgrade
ref:: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd772579(WS.10).aspx
and HP have declared in its site that it will not upgrade any home basic machines.
i think it's wrong and feel CHEATED...
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No manufacturer has announced a free upgrade program for systems running Vista Basic. All the offers are for Home Premium/Business/Ultimate. HP and other manufacturers aren't obligated to even offer these free upgrades. We expect them and welcome them,but there is no obligation.
I'm a systems technician for a large company and have been playing with the Windows 7 RC for some time. Our enterprise agreements allowed us access to the MSDN betas also. We've been avoiding Vista in our company but look forward to Windows 7. Sadly there is no direct upgrade path from XP to 7, it does a parallel install, moving the previous OS and files into a Windows.OLD folder on the drive. All the drivers and applications have to be reinstalled after this. For any machine running any version of Vista it is possible to fire the DVD in the drive and have it upgrade to Windows 7.
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