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until the beta is over 
Windows 7 beta - 9th January
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I put in an old 40gb harddrive and installed Win7 on it. It all seemed to work okay, took about half an hour to install. However after entering the OS choice menu on startup and selecting Windows 7 it says that it cannot find hal.dll.
This could have just been an error on installing but I think it's more likely that not installing it on the boot drive caused a problem. I had a look through the startup options with VistaBoot Pro and everything looks fine, it's pointing at the right drive for everything. I've confirmed that hal.dll is where it is looking it just can't find or load it.
I might try removing my main system drive, reformatting the 40gb drive and try to install Win7 on that then. Hopefully if that works I can put the current system drive back in and sort out the OS choice menu after that.
This could have just been an error on installing but I think it's more likely that not installing it on the boot drive caused a problem. I had a look through the startup options with VistaBoot Pro and everything looks fine, it's pointing at the right drive for everything. I've confirmed that hal.dll is where it is looking it just can't find or load it.
I might try removing my main system drive, reformatting the 40gb drive and try to install Win7 on that then. Hopefully if that works I can put the current system drive back in and sort out the OS choice menu after that.
I tried to install on my raid set up but it wont have it,think it maybe a driver issue or boot manager itself may not be compatable i have it running upstairs on my single core 2 gig DDr memory so i know the disc burned successfully
My Audigy 2 ZS worked with the default drivers, or maybe there was an update I did later that gave me drivers.
32bit version though.
Another Question:
I wanted to try the 64bit version but that required me to burn the DVD and boot from that and I tried to do that with Vista 64bit and it messed up the drive letters as Vista would think that the D:\ drive I used was the C:\ drive, is that the same with Windows 7 64bit?
I want to install Windows 7 64bit on the J:\ drive but is that possible when booting from the DVD or will it always make the Windows 7 system drive the C:\ drive?
I'm just dl'ing this for later to install on a new partition.
First thing.. do I need to find BETA raid drivers so Windows 7 will detect my SATA/Raid controller... I've always had to with XP.
Motherboard is an IP35 Pro btw..
TIA
First thing.. do I need to find BETA raid drivers so Windows 7 will detect my SATA/Raid controller... I've always had to with XP.
Motherboard is an IP35 Pro btw..
TIA
my xtreme audio OEM worked fine with the default win7 drivers, and works just as well as in Vista with the latest youp-pax ones
I must say, I'm loving the OS at the moment - the only thing that isn't working correctly for myself is Google Chrome - the front end loads, but the backend/renderer is SNAFU
Loaded AVG 8 and it works fine on 32-bit installation and it works OK(?) It loaded, then updated itself with no errors. I haven't run a scan yet though.....
Oh, one thing. I partitioned my main drive to instal w7. Scary process, as I~ just went ahead and did it without defragging, backing up etc... Shtupid, but, fingers crossed, I'm OK. My question is, w7 sees itself as sitting on the C:/ drive. Presumably this is correct (XP is on the c:/ drive too)?
w7 can't see the main, XP, partition?
Is this right?
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Soldato
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The problem is not the seperate drive as my install is done this way. Boots from my Primary Vista disk, but the W7 install is on a seperate hard drive. I suggest reinstalling, which can be done within Vista itself by mounting your image and running the install from there and selecting you target drive for install.
Not having any luck in getting my X-Fi ExtremeGamer to work properly without crackling and distorting any sounds. I tried for about two hours last night. I don't even need 5.1, I've only got a 2.1 system. Surprise surprise Creative letting everything down again, apart from that everything is running well.
That possibly only works if the Vista install is 64bit as I tried to install Windows 7 64bit from within XP 32bit but it refuses to install forcing the use of a DVD
Thanks though when I put the DVD into winXP it says it cannot run install inside windows it needs to be done as a boot disc.
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Did not try from within my XP install. It seems to have worked because all the files are copied to the target drive before it reboots. I am suprised XP did not allow this to work. Did you select upgrade or clean install?
Just installed 3dMark06. Had some problems to begin with, but running it as an administrator got it loaded. It also said there were DX9 (or 5?) elements missing?
Score has gone down form 18500 in XP to 16890 in W7. But then again, this is a demo OS, the ATI drivers are the WDDM v1 engineering sample ones so to be expected no doubt.
Score has gone down form 18500 in XP to 16890 in W7. But then again, this is a demo OS, the ATI drivers are the WDDM v1 engineering sample ones so to be expected no doubt.