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It asked for a license key, where can I get one from?
I've had 2 welcome emails using my live id neither gave any codes. However I've written down about4 different key combinations from the download sight. I need this because windows 7 will stop working after 1 month without the key.
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FWIW...............
I've burned five discs using three different utilities and am still unable to get past the 13% stage in 'Expanding Windows files'.
According to this site, it is possible to instal Win 7 using a USB stick. If I had one of the necessary capacity I'd give it a go. As things stand at the moment I'm inclined not to bother at all!
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I've burned five discs using three different utilities and am still unable to get past the 13% stage in 'Expanding Windows files'.
According to this site, it is possible to instal Win 7 using a USB stick. If I had one of the necessary capacity I'd give it a go. As things stand at the moment I'm inclined not to bother at all!
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Don't bother burning it. Download winrar & install if you don't already have it. Use it to extract the ISO files to a new folder, then click on setup within your new win 7 folder & it'll install from there.
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Thanks Sprogget and StaceyF.
I'm attempting the installation on my experimental box (main distro being Ubuntu) where I just fit a hard drive and swap connections as the mood takes me
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Consequently, I can't fall back on any of the dark arts you've kindly mentioned. I think I'll have to try a SATA drive and/or try to do the installation in the main box aka the 'None of the above Patented Difference Engine'.
I definitely don't want to run the risk of the edifice crumbling so that will have to be a separate HDD job as well.
Who knows? It might work and, like everything else in computing, worth a try.
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I'm attempting the installation on my experimental box (main distro being Ubuntu) where I just fit a hard drive and swap connections as the mood takes me
.Consequently, I can't fall back on any of the dark arts you've kindly mentioned. I think I'll have to try a SATA drive and/or try to do the installation in the main box aka the 'None of the above Patented Difference Engine'.
I definitely don't want to run the risk of the edifice crumbling so that will have to be a separate HDD job as well.
Who knows? It might work and, like everything else in computing, worth a try.
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Getting ready to drop Winblows 7 on as soon as new hard disk is formatted. Any pitfalls I should be aware of?
(Note, will be comparing it to XP, this PC has never seen Vista)
(Note, will be comparing it to XP, this PC has never seen Vista)
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Given that it's a beta, and Microbore, it's the least troublesome so far - and I tried them all
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When it's going to be released tho', as usual there will be too many different versions. On my (admittedly) big system (3 screen, multi-partition etc,) one of the interesting features is the virtual machine option to run XP pro, with apps for that. It seems to work..
Still no competition for Mac though
Added to say that I had uninstalled all vista last year , and 7 seems to be at least an improvement over that - be prepared to search around for a lot of 7 beta third party drivers, but they are out there now, and in greater numbers than the early days of Vista
Given that it's a beta, and Microbore, it's the least troublesome so far - and I tried them all
.When it's going to be released tho', as usual there will be too many different versions. On my (admittedly) big system (3 screen, multi-partition etc,) one of the interesting features is the virtual machine option to run XP pro, with apps for that. It seems to work..
Still no competition for Mac though
Added to say that I had uninstalled all vista last year , and 7 seems to be at least an improvement over that - be prepared to search around for a lot of 7 beta third party drivers, but they are out there now, and in greater numbers than the early days of Vista
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I installed it on a separate HD in the CD drivebay of my Thinkpad. It installed with no fuss, worked first time off, and is noticeably faster than XP. The CPU runs about 5 degrees cooler, too.
I can see me having to buy two copies of Win7 Ultimate come next March when it starts to time out.
I can see me having to buy two copies of Win7 Ultimate come next March when it starts to time out.
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Having now got 2 machines running 7 I was very impressed by the ease of the network set-up, it asked me which network I wished to connect to (it could see 3) it then asked for the encryption key and then told me to contact xyz on the downstairs computer for the home-group password which I typed in and immediately I could access all the shared folders
and the shared printer
and the shared printer
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I like it but I've found it slower than Vista when negotiating explorer & I still have sound woes on it. In fairness, the sound problems are almost certainly driver related. Overall though, it is sexy. The best effort from MS in years.
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Ok, the install was sweet and problem free. It doesn't like my webcam and didn't like my sound card, but the sound issue was sorted out by telling it to install the Vista driver from the CD for the card (might help you Sprogget, download the Vista driver for your sound card).
All in all, it is nice (even on this old clunker of a PC I am running). Haven't fully explored it yet but compared to Vista it is an improvement
All in all, it is nice (even on this old clunker of a PC I am running). Haven't fully explored it yet but compared to Vista it is an improvement
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It didn't like my built-in webcam so I searched and found a suitable driver. It may help yours too - just search for "CMOS_Camera_D-Max_GD-5A35A_VT_071213" vista driver.
It didn't like my built-in webcam so I searched and found a suitable driver. It may help yours too - just search for "CMOS_Camera_D-Max_GD-5A35A_VT_071213" vista driver.
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HB, I've tried every combo of driver for my s/card going without success. The issue I reckon lies with Creative & their notoriously crappy support. Auzentech here we come.
I actually get fantastic 5.1 surround sound throughout windows 7 with the exception of live tv where it defaults to stereo. Since I'm a lazy b*****d who loafs about in front of the idiot lantern most nights, it's something of a show stopper for me. Such a shame as it's the one piece of the puzzle that's missing.
I actually get fantastic 5.1 surround sound throughout windows 7 with the exception of live tv where it defaults to stereo. Since I'm a lazy b*****d who loafs about in front of the idiot lantern most nights, it's something of a show stopper for me. Such a shame as it's the one piece of the puzzle that's missing.
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It's my intention to read carefully through this thread again tonight, but I was halfway through an answer to Green Granite on another thread when I thought I'd best move over to this one.
Following some hiccups, I now have one 400 gig drive destined to be my Win 7 unit. It is divided into C: 100g D: 50 g and E: the remainder. I still have a lot of data on E: but D: is newly formatted. E: is backed up.
My XP home, is on a smaller physical drive, and temporally holds the OS. This only has C: plus D: as a restore partition.
The OS in the larger drive still operates at this time. (XP pro.)
I would like a coherent download that could be used again, and therefore will be copied onto a DVD. But what is the most logical way to do this?
D: on the target drive has 50g to use as a dumping ground. Can I then install from there?
C: could be formatted first, giving a green-field site, but this would, I assume, mean using the other physical drive as the holding tank and indeed using its OS and browser to facilitate the maneuver. I would have to be sure in this case, that the download would not be installing as it arrived, or the drive letters would be wrong.
I'm trying to figure out the best way to maneuver but am really demonstrating my lack of knowledge.
NB. It might be obvious exactly how to proceed when I press the download button. But I've never downloaded anything bigger than Open Office, and that of course didn't involve the OS. I'm concerned of course, that I'll end up with no valid OS and no start-up disc.
Following some hiccups, I now have one 400 gig drive destined to be my Win 7 unit. It is divided into C: 100g D: 50 g and E: the remainder. I still have a lot of data on E: but D: is newly formatted. E: is backed up.
My XP home, is on a smaller physical drive, and temporally holds the OS. This only has C: plus D: as a restore partition.
The OS in the larger drive still operates at this time. (XP pro.)
I would like a coherent download that could be used again, and therefore will be copied onto a DVD. But what is the most logical way to do this?
D: on the target drive has 50g to use as a dumping ground. Can I then install from there?
C: could be formatted first, giving a green-field site, but this would, I assume, mean using the other physical drive as the holding tank and indeed using its OS and browser to facilitate the maneuver. I would have to be sure in this case, that the download would not be installing as it arrived, or the drive letters would be wrong.
I'm trying to figure out the best way to maneuver but am really demonstrating my lack of knowledge.
NB. It might be obvious exactly how to proceed when I press the download button. But I've never downloaded anything bigger than Open Office, and that of course didn't involve the OS. I'm concerned of course, that I'll end up with no valid OS and no start-up disc.
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My thoughts would be to down load the file, it matters not where to, then burn it to a DVD and check that it can be read by using windows explorer.
Assuming you wish to retain the OS on the smaller disc and not the larger one then Leave the smaller HD with XP on it in the pc and add the new HD as a slave (assuming its an IDE drive) or as the second channel if it's a SATA drive, reboot into XP and make a note of the new drive letters assigned to the larger drive, and decide which partition you want to install W7 onto on the new drive lets say it will be E:. Shut the mc down insert the DVD and switch on. W7 will then look at the drives and ask you which one you want to install it to tell it E: and it will install it's self there and set up a dual booting system with XP automatically with W7 as the default OS.
The alternative is to remove the smaller drive (I presume you can boot from it ok) and have the larger one only in the mc when the DVD asks you where you wish to install it to tell it D: and it will then set up a dual boot with the OS already on that disc but still with W7 as the default OS. NOTE that the partions will change so that what was D: will now become C: as far as W7 is concerned.
And you can still put the other HD in in the unlikely event that it goes pear shaped and be able to use that system.
Assuming you wish to retain the OS on the smaller disc and not the larger one then Leave the smaller HD with XP on it in the pc and add the new HD as a slave (assuming its an IDE drive) or as the second channel if it's a SATA drive, reboot into XP and make a note of the new drive letters assigned to the larger drive, and decide which partition you want to install W7 onto on the new drive lets say it will be E:. Shut the mc down insert the DVD and switch on. W7 will then look at the drives and ask you which one you want to install it to tell it E: and it will install it's self there and set up a dual booting system with XP automatically with W7 as the default OS.
The alternative is to remove the smaller drive (I presume you can boot from it ok) and have the larger one only in the mc when the DVD asks you where you wish to install it to tell it D: and it will then set up a dual boot with the OS already on that disc but still with W7 as the default OS. NOTE that the partions will change so that what was D: will now become C: as far as W7 is concerned.
And you can still put the other HD in in the unlikely event that it goes pear shaped and be able to use that system.
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My thoughts would be to down load the file, it matters not where to, then burn it to a DVD and check that it can be read by using windows explorer.
I'm fairly committed to keeping both drives insitu as they were very difficult to scheme in neatly while keeping them cool.
I posted a while back on how I change between them by selection in the BIOS. Needless to say, their drive letters are dynamic...but I've labeled them so that I can see the letter they would be when booted from the other disc.
I'll try to download the soft tonight when all the kiddywinks have stopped surfing...about 4 am that'd be I suppose.
I'll go from there. Thanks again.
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Downloaded file and cut the DVD. The first sign of any problem was when the PC would not boot from the DVD drive.. I wasn't sure that it should, so I booted from the spare HD and asked for the install to be on drive 0. they were clearly marked, but I was scared that it would write to the XP drive.
At 64% the install failed.
Thankfully the small drive still works, and there's quite a lot of data on the correct drive, but the main issue is, should it have booted from the DVD?
I intend to cut another DVD, then if that fails, take to the bottle. Mmm 2:40 Am why do we do this?
How do I do a checksum of the file? I see some check numbers in this thread but I don't know how to compare them.
BTW, it took 4 hours to download, that's not very good is it? I have SBC on 'Two Wire' phone line. R
At 64% the install failed.
Thankfully the small drive still works, and there's quite a lot of data on the correct drive, but the main issue is, should it have booted from the DVD?
I intend to cut another DVD, then if that fails, take to the bottle. Mmm 2:40 Am why do we do this?
How do I do a checksum of the file? I see some check numbers in this thread but I don't know how to compare them.
BTW, it took 4 hours to download, that's not very good is it? I have SBC on 'Two Wire' phone line. R