Win 7 Arrives 21st

Yeah my mate used Easy Transfer, useful feature indeed but for the likes of me it's pretty useless as we have a drive dedicated to user documents etc :p

I just create a "System Image" using Windows Backup and Restore so if my Windows drive dies or Windows jeffs up then I just do a VHD image restore using the restore CD I created to load the image off the external backup and BOOM! my whole Windows drive is back to how it was :p

Think my next external drive is going to be eSATA though as USB 2 takes a bit to xfer 100GB over :p
 
Quick random question - if I swap a graphics card in a system with OEM Vista installed, will it need activating? If it does, will it still work fine without being activated for a while?
 
Installing it on my mother's PC tomorrow night in exchange for some dinner etc :)

Question is whether to go 32bit or 64bit. It's an early Intel x64 chip with 2GB RAM - Dell 3100C

Perfect for what my Mother uses it for, but what arcitecture..

Clean install from Windows XP Home. Only applications I'm aware of at the mo are:
MS Office
Family Tree
 
Mikey said:
Installing it on my mother's PC tomorrow night in exchange for some dinner etc :)

Question is whether to go 32bit or 64bit. It's an early Intel x64 chip with 2GB RAM - Dell 3100C

Perfect for what my Mother uses it for, but what arcitecture..

Clean install from Windows XP Home. Only applications I'm aware of at the mo are:
MS Office
Family Tree
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Try it with the 64bit, it wont let you install it if your system is 64bit
 
Anyone done a custom/unattended install yet? Going to get round to installing mine tomorrow, but i'll want to move programs to d, userfiles to e and temp to f, first. Was hoping someone else has done it without problems yet.
 
Got mine today and I sit here typing in it :D

Have to say I am seriously impressed. All the new little features, once you get used to them, make so much sense, plus all the Vista stuff that was annoying now works perfectly. So glad I upgraded.

Install took less than 10 minutes on my Corsair 64Gb SSD.

Also Fallout 3 has decided to work again YAAAAAAY!
 
Got mine yesterday. Installed it last night, it did take a while to install, mainly sitting at Setup Screens.. I'm still very new to this so I might have done it wrong, but I installed mine by telling the bios to use CD drive first and then boot from cd. As far as I know, I did a clean install but Windows keept my old files, which were about 600gig, I didn't actually want to keep them(took ages to delete).

I have to say that my boot times are longer than Vista, it may very well be that I've installed it wrong. I'd like to know if I have and how to do a complete clean install with out keeping my old files, if possible?
 
Well I really like it. I avoided Vista like the plague but 7 seems intuitive to me and much snappier - VWD struggled on XP

As a bonus the XP drivers for my RAID card work well (Promise S150 TX2plus)

It was also possible to run NTbackup from a USB flash disk to restore some files.
 
Kesz said:
Got mine yesterday. Installed it last night, it did take a while to install, mainly sitting at Setup Screens.. I'm still very new to this so I might have done it wrong, but I installed mine by telling the bios to use CD drive first and then boot from cd. As far as I know, I did a clean install but Windows keept my old files, which were about 600gig, I didn't actually want to keep them(took ages to delete).

I have to say that my boot times are longer than Vista, it may very well be that I've installed it wrong. I'd like to know if I have and how to do a complete clean install with out keeping my old files, if possible?
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Sounds like you didn't format the drive during install and as such the 600gb of stuff left over fragmented the drive?

Defrag and reboot a few times, boot times will improve over each reboot by small amounts and superfetch will learn with use.

If all else fails, re-install but this time format :)


Also yay! another copy on the way from MS though....a bit late in dispatching but oh well.

Thank you for ordering the Microsoft Windows® 7 Upgrade.
Your order has been shipped.
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got my copy yesterday but i took so long backing up all my crap and organising my files that i never got round to installing it (:

But on the plus side my corsair hx750w should turn up today so i get 2 new things to play with tonight. another lonely night for my poor gf!

does this add anything new to the rc or just the same?
 
DeathTyrant said:
Well, I'd like to comment on how great Windows 7 is, but I can't....
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All sorted now. :D

Thanks to the guys at OcUK (I was the one who rang up a couple of times asking about Win 7 Ultimate x64 shipments) I was able to get ahold of an OEM Windows 7 Ultimate x64 to go with my order, and get it amended to have Saturday delivery. Bloke turned up this morning with my goodies.

So, all is well, and I can start on my new install!

Cheers guys!
 
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