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Name: Justin Weber
Hello all,
Due to popular demand, I have rolled out the Windows 7 forum. Hopefully it will help everyone with this new operating system from Microsoft!
Justin
Yea!
Thanks.
"Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, are in my top 10
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Good place to warn others to heed the Microsoft instructions on installing Windows 7 beta on a clean computer.
I have TWO hard drives in my main rig with a total of 6 partitions. I attempted to install 7 last week on an empty primary partition on the second drive. The installation failed at the final screens. No big deal, I thought. However, Windows 7 trashed my WinXP installation, even though I am sure I picked the option for a fresh install and assigned the correct partition on the second drive.
Ended up having to restore from a Ghost image. Windows 7 was installed to the second hard drive. Don't understand why it trashed my WinXP install.
Tried everything to repair the WinXP installation without success.
Will attempt Windows 7 again soon. May have gotten a bad file or did a bad burn. Got a message about a missing clock.avi file and one other, that I don't recall the name. Didn't think they were important.
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That's too bad. I made a backup of my hard drive but haven't had any problems like that. Everything runs well for me. In fact I really like it alot.
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OtheHill: Windows 7 trashed my WinXP installation
Stupid question, but did you try WinXP's recovery console's fixmbr/fixboot?Also, I'm wondering if anyone has had success with Win7's Win32-based installer.
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I installed on a partition which is on the same drive with XP Pro, without encountering any problems.
I choose my XP boot when required, by changing drive from bios, it's seperate from my Vista drive and no boot manager used.
Don't know if that makes a difference or not, but everything works fine and duall booting with Vista.
From what I have seen so far, I think I will get it when available.
The only problems I've come across is Internet Explorer playing up sometimes, page not found errors on regular sites and the odd lockup of IE, but I get the lockup in Vista as well.
What suprised me was how quickly it installed, icluding updates took 25 minutes from booting dvd to ready to use.(on my slow connection of 256, took 26 hours to download W7))
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Razor, yes I tried the WinXP repair console and used those commands and more.
At first I thought that Win7 overwrote the WinXP installation. After finally imaging back the WinXP Ghost image I discovered a Windows 7 folder with what appeared to be all the folders needed on the second drive. I also discovered a Windows.old, Windows.old1, Windows old2 located on the first, primary hard drive. I did attempt to install 3 times. These contained program files that were installed to the second partition of my primary hard drive. Very strange results. Sure seemed like it must have attempted to overwrite my XP installation.
Windows 7 is supposed to include SATA controller support isn't it?
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It should; it knew of my laptop's SATA. Then again, I installed it from Vista, so it's not hard to imagine Win7 copying Vista's SATA drivers if need be. (Especially since Win7 is compatible with Vista drivers.)
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Thanks justin I was waiting on this. I hope there are less problems in windows 7 then windows vista.
My thoughts on windows 7, I had no problems installing it and using it as a secondary/primary operating system. I do not see any problems with it, and it can only get better as things go along. I hope that everyone has a good experience with it as i did. If you haven't give it a try, you wont be dissappointed.
Jim R
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Installed to XP HD,overwrote and installed OK.
Installed as upgrade to Vista Ultimate installed OK.
Appears to be 'better' than Vista in many respects.I like it so far.
As I cannot find Outlook Express, presume it is not part of the OS.
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helpoort: As I cannot find Outlook Express, presume it is not part of the OS.
Outlook Express was retired during WinXP.Vista had Windows Mail.
Win7 has a mail client as part of its cloud based Windows Live service.
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As for anyone that hasn't installed Windows 7 yet the transition from Windows Vista to Windows 7 is easy because they are both very similar to each other in many ways navigational and graphical. Most of everything that you are used to doing in Windows Vista is pretty much unchanged in Windows 7 for the most part. The only major noticeable navigational and graphical change is the taskbar in Windows 7 and that’s really about it. So you shouldn't have a hard time at all getting used to Windows 7.
Iron Sharpens Iron.
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Razor2.3 thanks for reply.
How do I contact my ISPs email service,
The usual Pop3, SMTP etc. Or, as my original post implied it is not available in this the BETA.
(I do have Hotmail, as a secondary email.
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helpoort:
Download the Windows Live Essentials, or get a third party email client. MS is moving away from bundled applications, and Win7 probably won't include an email client.
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I installed Windows 7 on a separate primary partition on the same physical sata hard drive from which I was dual booting XP and Vista. I installed by booting up to the Windows 7 CD rather than from within XP or Vista. The installation went well, except that a couple of drivers for the Asus P5K motherboard would not install at first. I tried updating after I downloaded the latest chipset drivers from Asus, but at first ity wouldn't work. Finally, after I ran Window Update, everything is going smoothly now with the triple boot.
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My primary OS on my HP laptop is Vista but I have partitions on my SATA drive running both 32 bit and 64 bit Win 7 Versions. Disn't have any problems installing them--in fact as soon as they had internet access they went out looking for the proper drivers.
Win 7 is the quikest Windows install I've encountered--20 min max.It recognized my AActiontec DSL wireless modem, asked me for the password, then identified my HP wireless printer and installed the proper driver for it. It also boots and make a wireless network connection, three times as fast as Vista.
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Installed 7 on 2 systems. 1 os my "guinea pig" rig in my truck. Duel booting with 2kpro. Opinion? As stable as 2kpro,runs like xp and looks like vista! Love it.other rig is older homebrew media build also stable.othehill the second rig is nf3 running satas and didn't have to install the oem sata drivers so 7 had them built in. I say to ms RELEASE WINDOWS 7!!!!!
on the road again!!
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Well hello there, i just came across a toshiba satellite from 2004 and installed the Win 7 on it, must say it looks beautiful and with only 512 ram, runs like a dream!! Xp was formally installed so yes there is an old windows folder, the problem im having is that there is no sound? i went to toshibas site, and the drivers they give are only valid towards vista??? please help somehow? thanks
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RoscoPcMack: Do the Windows 7 updates-that might fix the sound problem. If not, try XP drivers-I know Windows 7 is closer to Vista, but I have seen XP drivers work when the Vista ones did not.
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Look in sound devices and make sure you sound device is set as the default. Mine was set to "digital media device". Switched it to my audigy an works great now.
on the road again!!
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