Software such as md5sums will do the job.

Ta. I'll look at that later.


I tried it again and it failed at 64% again. I cut another disc, and lo, it's into the next stage.

At the first reboot, it again couldn't find NTLDR (is missing.) this is what it says if I try to boot from the target drive. I fear that there is something still very wrong. It says it's expanding files, but it's already done that. Don't want to leave it, and don't want to sit here another hour. Decisions. When it shut down to reboot, I had to force a shutdown and re start.


Sounds a bit terminal, wouldn't you say?


The only thing is, that all this is going on from a C: which is not the intended drive. It won't boot from the DVD so I can't see any other option. But the drive letters are wrong, but the target for the few files that copied, is correct.


All this would be resolved if it would boot from the DVD. If this is the issue, I may as well start downloading another copy.

I had one heck of a job convincing them that my 10 year old e-address was mine. Soooooooo much BS getting that sorted.

Help it's asking me for a product code orf me box :ugh:

Assuming you're in the middle of installing 7, then ignore that for now Rivets. Carry on with the install & when you're all up & running, get a product code from the MS website & activate 7 from the system page in control panel.

Ta muchly.

I'm not only tired, I took a sleeper an hour ago to take away the angst. One is now fighting sleep and a sleeper.:\

Good morning world. I'm talking to you from my new Win 7 operated machine. And all five drive letters are correct Phew!


I havn't yet tried to see if it will boot from the other drive, won't push me luck tonight.

Thanks for the help everyone...One will try to beat this into a workable tool tomorrow.

Keep up the good work folks
 

I'm really enjoying the posts on this thread as I post this on my 1995 vintage Compaq - XP3, 320 MB of Ram, floppy drive internal graphics etc.

Yes I have played the zzzzzzzz.AM game with the creations of Redmond - last week I XP3'd my main clone - Result No wireless networking - Solution carefully yank PCMIA card of of said Compaq and insert (word used very carefully) into clone - result happyness. Old compaq bereft of outside contact with the outside world -Cruelty to Presario. My standby 200 quid net book happly runs Kubunto 9.04 - When will people learn that it takes years to nail dowin the floorboards of an operating system - wait for Win 7 SP2 before installing it on your kit in my 'umble opinion. PS any assembler programmers out there ?

Progress - Bah humbug !!!!!!!

CAT III

Pah! Where's the fun in that...get yer tweed jacket and short trousers on, and go climb Everest. It's what I felt I'd done last night. Haven't got the staying power any more.:uhoh:


I've put "Ordinary" Firefox on me laptops, but is there an upgraded version of any sort for Win 7 ? Downloads doesn't seem to offer one.

No there's not, but you could try V3.5beta4 it is what I'm using with no real problems.

Dear Rivits
 

That Tweed jacket that I was wrapped in as a neofite, I could not get out of the thing - the brick in the bottom of the sack did not help either. The water was cold too.

Sense of proportion, if it aint running VT210's it ain't a real applcation - long live the navigational database model of application developement - I was being serious about assembler - Re OU -me.

No offence - This is a orrible topic - Thats why I'm on pprune. Yep the PCMIA card is on M/C one again - AV update - All Hail MS .

CAT III

CATIII-NDB - that vintage Compaq couldn't be more than a Pentium (1) 133 MHz CPU. Does it support hard disks larger than 512MB? :}

Are you serious that it has Win XP on it? I can't believe that it runs Windows XP at an acceptable speed - even with 320MB RAM! 1995 was still DOS 6 & Win 3.11 for many, although Win95 had just been released.

I've run Win2K on a 1998 233 MHz PII (Toshiba 480CDT) and 160MB RAM (max possible) as a main work PC (slow but steady), but that PC wouldn't run XP at all. I still have it as a packet sniffer.

My "minimum spec." for XP is 500MHz PIII with 512MB RAM, although 256 is feasible, for lighter loads.

SD

To quote me.

Okay, I'm using bog-standard FF, but when I came to load Skype, it advised that there had been mods for...and it didn't quite say W7, but this type of OS (Sic). I've got 4 0 0 226 after a nice message said that I needed a modified version to cope with the new OS. Huh! I see that's the same as the laptop has on it. (Vista BTW.) Well, the same VER number anyway.

I did spend some time with the Rivetess' image pointing at her ear and saying "Can you hear me?" Made I larf that did. Lovely sound from Norf London, but my mike needed reconfiguring for skype. Selected new mic in the Hello-setup screen and away it went. First time that's happened.

And another thing!

Tried to log onto PpruNe, and couldn't. I could look inside, but not log on. The horror!

I ended up getting a new password...after all these years with the same one. That fixed it, but it was definitely related to this installation, cos PpruNe was working normally on the other drive. Odd that.

I tried deleting the cookies etc. Ran CCleaner. Made not a jot....

Please excuse all these posts, but I've done little but mess with technology for the last few days. My tele took up more time than you could shake a stick at.

A few moments ago, I was going to say how I'd fallen for this W7 thingie. I'd just assumed than my old HP LaserJet 4 plus was going to be in there, and was looking, when another menue poped up and said put that away, we'll do it for you. They did, 3 minutes and 12 Mb of something, and away it went. Bless!

However...there's another However. As I logged on to PpruNe, I was not allowed to...well, log on - Again:ugh: Now I'm worried.


Any ideas why this should not allow the new password. It worked at least once, now I'm back to the lappie to beg for more help.

Hello Saab
 

Saab Your right It was manufactured in 1999 not 95 - I've dug out the purchase inv -apologies everyone so its 10 years old - Compaq Presario 1200 Lap Top intel celerion processor overclocked to 850 MHz - it origionally had 128 MB ram with Win ME - upgraded RAM to 320 MB that all that the bios can address - Origional 10 GB hard disk still - floppy and CD/DVD Read Only - XP Home -SP3 (installed without probs) - No inbuilt wireless hence Belkin G PCMIA card - Win firewall and ESET anti Vir - 2 mins to boot - about 1 and 3/4 hours use on battery - its at its limit - I have tried ubuntu 8.10 but no joy - But still perfectly useable - I'm writing this msg on it. Sorry to mis represent the age of the thing - but my point is with a bit of TLC you can extend the life of old kit - better than throwing it away. PS on board graphics 20MB taken out of the 320 MB Ram 1024 by 768 Screen. OK for usual Home user ordinary tasks

A more general issue - modern operating systems like Vista and Win 7 seem to require comparitively vast processing power and acres of RAM - Where in terms of performance have all the procsssing cycles gone ?.




CAT III

No but try using IE instead and see whether it lets you in ok, if it does than it's a setting in FF. Also don't log out of PPruNe when you finish a session.

Edited to add: If you are in the private browsing mode it does not remember passwords nor will it log into sites automatically

In stores for Christmas...
 

Well, for the moment, Pprune is behaving itself.

It suddenly occurred to me that I used my - rather low level - password that I'd used for Pprune for many years, to be my Win 7 password. I wonder if in some way they found out about each other, and, in a fit of jealousy, caused chaos.


Now, here's an interesting thing.

Above, I described my LaserJet 4 P installation. The menu that popped up over the normal installation knew what printer I had. I had never told it! The disc had been formatted prior to W7's installation. This seems to be saying that the printer's information was carried back up the Parallel printer cable.

We used to do wondrous things with parallel ports, so I know their potential, but I thought accessory information gathering was a USB function idea.

There's a reason bidirectional parallel printer cables have that name... :}

Incidentally, HP specifies IEE1284-compliant cables for its printers, and if your printer's older than the 5P, max 3 meters. 5P onwards, max 10 meters.

Your 4P's been part of the default printer table for Windows since XP, maybe earlier.

Well, thus far Win7 64bit is working fine for me. Currently using it on a new motherboard which appears to be giving me fits but I must say that Win7 is starting to impress me slightly... may end up changing my laptop OS to Win7 as well.