Reformat drive and installing software on Windows 7 250GB Partition

Reformat drive and installing software on Windows 7 250GB Partition
Start-time: around 9:30pm

1. Insert Linux  Mint Live DVD
2. Copy data over to external HD: 

• My Documents, 
• Pictures, 
• DropBox, 
• Shared Data Folder (data for use by different OS. 
• No important data was on Data Partition

1. Format Drive to 250 GB & Installed Win7 Pro
2. Install Acer Drivers
3. Install the following Software:
4. MS Visual Studio 2010
5. MS Access 2010
6. MS Visio 2010
7. MS Project 2010
8. MS Office 2010 Home & Student Edition

• FireFox Browser with the following Add-ons:
• Rikaichan: English - Japanese Plugin & Japanese Names dictionaries
• AdBlock with subscription to list
• FlashBlock

1. Adobe Flash
2. Java Support
3. Adobe Acrobat Reader
4. Sophos Anti-virus
5. Anki with Japaneses Support & Tatoeba Plugin
6. Mplayer
7. Enable games features on Win 7
8. DropBox
9. Run Windows update
10. Create Image and Recovery Disk

End-time: around 4:30am


Other Software to install then Create Image on hard-drive again:

1. VLC (done)
2. HandBrake (done)
3. Aegisubs (done)
4. Blender (done)
5. MS XNA 4
6. MS Expression Studio 4
7. Create New Image once done.

Create new partitions for Linux:
Install: various version of Linux Mint around 10-15GB: KDE, LMDE Gnome, LMDE Xfce for experimentation and maybe Fedora 16 to see any progress in Gnome 3