On 04/18/15, mark lewis pondered and said...
 
 ml> as long as your Win7 can run DOS programs, it should be fine... the
 ml> underlying disk format doesn't come into play... that's all transparent
 ml> to most programs... just don't try to use long file names... 8.3 is
 ml> still the restriction ;) 

I figured I keep Win7 as 32bit to be on the safe side as well.

Thanks Mark and Paul for your comments / help ;)

Best, Paul

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