I looked at the drive on the laptop. It says:
Local Disk C Total space 973.8GB, used space 530 GB, free 376 (more than I thought)
Recovery D total space 20.3 GB, used space 18.1GB, free space...

Didn't put the space in. Just did and got what is below. I do not know why it says Free 0 B because there are GBs of space free.

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt...

I started the laptop and ran as administrator, and typed diskpart. When that showed up I typed listdisk. I got 2 columns. The left column seems to be a list of commands, alphabetized (some of which I...

I believe the OS is on a separate, small partition. I can start the laptop and check it in a little while.

I have actually 2 Win7 licenses - one is Windows 7 Pro with the 32 and 64 bit disks that...

This is sounding like something I can do. If I do install the old drive, and don't remove the new drive, the old would go into the second bay and wouldn't that make it the secondary drive? Or should...

Well that's good news and since this is an all-in-one with no "box" under the desk maybe I wouldn't need the cable.

Thank you for your reply. I was thinking I'd deal with Windows 10 later on, maybe this summer, when I am not swamped with deadline work. I don't know how to set up dual boot and I don't have time to...

Working on these options... HP says I do have 1 empty drive bay. The drive in the all in one desktop is laptop size: 2.5 inch. I can take out the one that came with it and put in a 2 TB if I want.
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I can't figure out how to do this. I don't have experience with two drives, dual boot, and such things.

My HP laptop with a 1 TB hard drive with Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit broke its cooling...

I apologize for not getting back on this but I want to say thank you for such detailed and thorough responses. I'm sure a lot of people besides me will benefit from this. I ultimately ended up...

It's Word XP which I believe is either 2002 or 2003. Went to the site you linked to and can't sign in so I'll have to work on this laster today.

I've read threads here saying it won't work at all, and threads saying it works with no problem. Some people who say it works have trouble with getting Word docs to open from emailed links. I did too...

Pissant - thank you!! These instructions are great!

Kelliann

Jimbo
I don't know too much about virtual machines :) or what the minimum requirement would be so am not sure it would be simple for me, but it is good to know it is an option if I can't just...

Hi, Jimbo - would the same work for Windows Mail (Vista version) being used in Windows 7? It works perfectly in Windows 7 - not a single hitch since 2012.

Can you do the virtual machine idea for...

Syd - thank you for the update!!! This is GREAT news! If I can get Windows Mail from Vista, which I am now using on Windows 7, onto Windows 10 then I have no problem switching to Windows 10. Using...

Tom
Oh - ok - thanks!
Kelliann

When you say you don't like Windows Mail in Win 10 do you mean the mail app that comes with Windows 10? Or do you mean the Windows Mail that came with Vista and that some of us then figured out how...

Rgauchy,
Are you using Windows Mail (Vista) with Windows 10? And have you done the update on 10 and Windows Mail (Vista) is still working?

Kellliann

Johannes,
Yes, you are exactly right. Windows Essentials contained several programs and one of them was Windows Live Mail.

Kelliann

Johannes, that would be Windows Live Mail, as I recall.

Kelliann

Syd,
Would you let us know how it goes? I am assuming you are referring to the Windows Mail that originally came with Vista and that (as I mentioned in another message just now) has been used by...

Just curious - are you talking about Windows Mail that was derived from Outlook Express and used in Vista --and then after that, could be used in Windows 7 if you knew how to make it work in 7?
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Syd,
Have you tried reinstalling it? I am not going to switch to 10 until the mail problem is solved... I refuse to use webmail... two slow and awkward and I like my own stuff on MY computer! I use...

You are talking about Windows Mail - the one that originally came with Vista that replaced Outlook Express, right? Not the Windows Live Mail that came with Windows 7.

My first thought after...