Windows 7 beta - 9th January

Will Lucky · 10 Jan 2009 at 02:07

gads said:
I tried all that and have been opening masses of tabs still only to come up with the error:

Keep using F5, it took me an hour to get mine

, others have had theres however within minutes.

ticklemebougy · 10 Jan 2009 at 02:09

hopefully i'll be able to get a key when the downloads are back up if not ill have to get it by other means :S

Pyroblaze · 10 Jan 2009 at 02:11

ticklemebougy said:
hopefully i'll be able to get a key when the downloads are back up if not ill have to get it by other means :S

Keep trying, i just got mine after about 10 refreshes

Countcussy · 10 Jan 2009 at 02:11

gads said:
I tried all that and have been opening masses of tabs still only to come up with the error:

The important thing is that it is going to the correct place. Keep trying.

fornowagain · 10 Jan 2009 at 02:16

Pyroblaze said:
Hmm, i'm having problems installing the 8.12 ati drivers. I installed them before, rebooted and when the pc came back online again W7 installed the generic built in drivers! Now when i'm trying to install the 8.12s again its just hanging on "Detecting basic system configuration". Anyone else experienced this?

I dunno if any one has mentioned this, have a look around there is an AMD Windows 7 driver preview pack.

beta_w7-32_8-56-1-081203a-72489.exe

beta_w7-64_8-56-1-081203a-72489.exe

EDDS · 10 Jan 2009 at 02:17

is dreamscene not in windows 7? i cant seem to find it.

p0rks0da · 10 Jan 2009 at 02:18

p0rks0da said:
Quick noob question here, does the Win7 installation menu let you set up a new partition or do you have to do this before you start installing?

I've never messed around with partitions before (always use a seperate physical disk) but at the moment i only have my os drive and a raid 1 array so i'm going to have to split the OS drive.

Okay well i tried running the installion and there were no options to create a new partition on the OS disk. How can i go about creating a new partition in Vista (Home Premium 32bit)? My OS drive is 80gb with approx 56gb free atm.

TIA!

EDIT: Is the 'shrink' option under disk management what i'm looking for? If so i'm not sure what's up but it says it can only shrink the drive by 10gb :/

ticklemebougy · 10 Jan 2009 at 02:25

Pyroblaze said:
Keep trying, i just got mine after about 10 refreshes

lucky

ill try again when i wake up, too tired to keep refreshing at 2:25am

Vertigo · 10 Jan 2009 at 02:41

Ditto. ISO downloaded in 25 mins flat but can't get a key - will try again tomorrow.

scaramanga182 · 10 Jan 2009 at 03:22

64 ISO downloaded just need a key. All links keep taking me to the beta home page. Gonna try later.

Amp34 · 10 Jan 2009 at 03:33

Meh, bored now, wonder if there will be any left when I get up, around 12...

sleeman99 · 10 Jan 2009 at 03:40

hmm, think i will stay up until gone 4 then its bed 4 me!

EvilOne · 10 Jan 2009 at 06:30

Got the ISO, took 9h lol. But now i cant get the key

I managed to get to the point where you sign in with your ms-live details but that was when the site was overly busy and it died shortly after. Hopefully i will have a key assigned to my email :/

jojothemonkey69 · 10 Jan 2009 at 06:43

Any chance anyone could get me a spare key. Internet is down on main pc and it's a little hard on my iPhone!!! Many thanks joe

jojothemonkey69 · 10 Jan 2009 at 06:45

Edit sorted now sorry

jojothemonkey69 · 10 Jan 2009 at 07:05

Ignore sorry

KangooVanMan · 10 Jan 2009 at 07:12

I gave up trying to get a key at 8 o'clock last night. Up bright and early to get the missus off to work so have been F5's since then. Seems to be pretty dead now the page refreshes instantly with the pop back tomorrow message. Could be because it's still pretty early in the west coast. Perhaps 10am will be a good time as long as there are some keys left.
Has anyone managed to get one recently? The conformation email link is producing a 404 now too.

musicman53 · 10 Jan 2009 at 07:40

Hatter The Mad said:
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...00_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.iso

Direct link

Like I have said more than once, from where I am it downloads a 717 byte iso.

BloodyL · 10 Jan 2009 at 07:46

Just clicked that link in Firefox and I'm now grabbing a 2.4Gb image of the x86 install, so something is wrong where you are musicman.

BloodyL · 10 Jan 2009 at 08:09

Now it has stopped and any clicks of the link take me to the windows 7 home page.