Windows 7 beta - 9th January

installed Windows 7 on a 750gb HDD - after moving stuff off it to other drives ....

and v.impressed

BUT I can't access that drive at all from Vista shows up as RAW -unformatted ??

bit of a Pain
 
I have an asus M2NPV-MX motherboard and have tried installing the 32bit and 64bit versions,but i cannot get it to boot!.It takes forever to install and then at the last minute i get the dreaded blue screen

I have updated my bios to the latest one (1301) and the same motherboard ran vista no problem.
Anyone got any idea's what my problem is?.Maybe because i am only using the onboard graphics?
 
Anyone getting "The bios in this system is not fully ACPI complaint"


Joey your issue is that you have an ACPI option enabled in the BIOS that the windows installer kicks a fit at. Simply disable this, by any chance is it an Asus board, i had the same problem when setting up Vista 64bit onto a P5Q Series board. After i disabled it, the installer ran and everything was happy as larry.:)
 
Windows 7 lasted for around 10mins on my laptop before I acronise'ed back to Vista. Don't seem to be any different to Vista bar stuff not working. Maybe migrate when it is officially released.
 
I just extracted the files in the ISO image to a USB stick and it booted without having to do anything else to the stick (had to change boot order in the bios). Installed much quicker and saves using a DVD that I'd undoubtedly lose.

Vista drivers work fine with windows 7 so as long as you have a copy of the vista drivers you should be fine. You'll probably find it installs most things automatically anyway, only things I had to install manually on my laptop were fingerprint reader and the utility for the hot keys on the keyboard.
 
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ricky1981 said:
I just extracted the files in the ISO image to a USB stick and it booted without having to do anything else to the stick (had to change boot order in the bios). Installed much quicker and saves using a DVD that I'd undoubtedly lose.
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Sounds a much better idea, so how do you do that? Not sure I follow you with the first part mate.

ricky1981 said:
Vista drivers work fine with windows 7 so as long as you have a copy of the vista drivers you should be fine. You'll probably find it installs most things automatically anyway, only things I had to install manually on my laptop were fingerprint reader and the utility for the hot keys on the keyboard.
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fingerprint reader, cool how does that work?
 
Jimmy1983 said:
Sounds a much better idea, so how do you do that? Not sure I follow you with the first part mate.

fingerprint reader, cool how does that work?
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Once you have downloaded the ISO image, you can open it with winrar (or another tool) and see the contents, just extract these to a USB stick. You will need to go into your bios and change the boot order so the USB stick comes before your hard drive. Not all laptops let you do this and if you aren't sure about doing it then maybe just stick to burning the DVD :)

Fingerprint reader is pretty common now, looks like a small metal strip and you can run your finger over it to login/authenticate rather than using a password (or as well). You can buy them separately (google is your friend for that).
 
Ah dam, yer my BIOS is really basic. Only have boot from HDD or DVD drive. :( Maybe I could update it.

Can you not just open the windows 7 setup file, and install from there?

I take most people are dual booting, if so what size partition is everyone using?
 
Hmmm I was watching an episode of GHI via media player classic home cinema 64bit , ffdshow bit was also installed. The last 20-30mins of the episode it would stutter and stall , the hard drive light was constantly lit up. The sound/music however did not change.
 
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^ Noticed that the "Users" folder by default is set to shared and has full read/write permissions granted to everyone.

Probably worth disabling this if you're installing on a laptop where you often access public networks :p
 
I don't think it recurses into your profile directory though. Or even 100% sure that's a default, it's something Home Groups does IIRC.
 
Seems a bit bizarre for home group to allow access to group users to this area! When I left the home group as well the permissions for sharing this dir still stayed.

It was recursive, any parent folder with such permissions has the same applied to child folders too.
 
Alcohol 120% and Daemon Tools both end up in an infinite loop of needing to reboot before continuing the install only to say the same thing again so both will not install :(

I am currently comaring Fallout 3 performance between XP and Win7 and so far in my limited testing it seems at least equal already :)
 
Dutch Guy said:
Alcohol 120% and Daemon Tools both end up in an infinite loop of needing to reboot before continuing the install only to say the same thing again so both will not install :(

I am currently comaring Fallout 3 performance between XP and Win7 and so far in my limited testing it seems at least equal already :)
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Daemon tools doesn't work at all & probably won't till W7 hits RTM, Try using virtual clone drive, works perfectly here.

http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html
 
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