Loose rivets
3rd Jun 2014, 14:53
Sorry, I'm rather repeating myself below, but better to be clear.
I retained Vista on my old Sony Vaio only to help a friend from afar. I don't think I ever rebooted to guide him, so it was a waste of time which is still going on. However, I thought I'd scrap Vista and reinstall my copy of W7 32bit with a clean sweep.
Oh, a quick aside: Is it better to download a new OS ISO - i.e., will it be more up to date while still accepting the old key?
Scrapping the Vista is not so simple. I have logical drives to put things in while I format C drive, but to my surprise, some of the folders - i.e. jpgs - seem to be the same in both boot-ups. I've always thought they would have to be reloaded for each OS just as the Programs are. For example, I have Word 2007 on Vista, and 2010 on W7. They don's seem aware of each other at all, but I'm definitely finding things in Vista that I know I didn't put there. For example, KeePass, a new backup for my failing brain which I've only recently discovered. I headed back from the US and put it on this laptop and not once booted in Vista - yet, there it is in Vista.
After quite a lot of (photo rescue) this morning, I was perplexed. I'd imagined the OSs to be doing their own thing while wholly contained on C drive and mapping out bits of the other drives for their exclusive use, but now I'm not sure.
I retained Vista on my old Sony Vaio only to help a friend from afar. I don't think I ever rebooted to guide him, so it was a waste of time which is still going on. However, I thought I'd scrap Vista and reinstall my copy of W7 32bit with a clean sweep.
Oh, a quick aside: Is it better to download a new OS ISO - i.e., will it be more up to date while still accepting the old key?
Scrapping the Vista is not so simple. I have logical drives to put things in while I format C drive, but to my surprise, some of the folders - i.e. jpgs - seem to be the same in both boot-ups. I've always thought they would have to be reloaded for each OS just as the Programs are. For example, I have Word 2007 on Vista, and 2010 on W7. They don's seem aware of each other at all, but I'm definitely finding things in Vista that I know I didn't put there. For example, KeePass, a new backup for my failing brain which I've only recently discovered. I headed back from the US and put it on this laptop and not once booted in Vista - yet, there it is in Vista.
After quite a lot of (photo rescue) this morning, I was perplexed. I'd imagined the OSs to be doing their own thing while wholly contained on C drive and mapping out bits of the other drives for their exclusive use, but now I'm not sure.