Tried Win 7 64 bit v7700 going back to WinXP 32

[Redshift40]

I had an honest go at Win 7 (clean install on my new system) I read many reviews and found most to be positive with not many problems. Well, I had too many problems in the little time I played with it. System hung at welcome screen on 3 rd boot after installing the video card drivers. Would not load my motherboard drivers or Video card drivers off of CD's.
Win 7 comes with a IE 8 32 bit and IE 8 64 bit ver. The 64 bit ver does not support Adobe Flash, and the 32 bit ver has some major problems with not going to some links you click on. For example... if I click on a link on this page... Mighty Web Designs Custom Canadian web designs Internet marketing Photo restorations Clients Page00 none of the links would open in a new window useing IE 32, it will work with IE 64 fine. I know I could use another browser, but hey IE should work. The 64 bit ver not supporting flash is useless to me as a designer.

Any way, now I must go back to Win XP
Is it ok to delete the 100 MB partition that Win 7 made?

I deleted Partition 2 already, but I don't remember creating the partition after that or formating the hard drive. (yet there it is). Don't you have to create one after? I am not a computer expert. Right now my hard drive looks like this...

610478 MB Disk 0 at ID 0 on bus 0 on Atapi (MBR)

Unpartitioned space 1MB
C: Partition 1 (System Rese) NTFS 100 MB (75 free)
D: Partition 2 (NTFS) 610374MB (609843 free)
Unpartitioned space 4MB

If I leave it and install Win XP, will the drive show up as C: or D:? Are there any problems you can see that might happen if I install XP on Partition 2? Could I or should I, merge the 2 partitions? or just leave it?

 

[zigzag3143]

Redshift

Im sorry you had problems with win 7 but it is after all still not released in its final shape. Im pretty sure you meant 7600 not 7700. IE8 would support Adobe flash if adobe ever gets around to developing it. Good Luck with xp

Ken

 

[Redshift40]

Thanks, I so wanted it to work with this new system to use the 4 GB of ram. I loved most of what I saw in Win7, but like you say it is only in it's beta stage. As a web designer, I am not ready to use this OS yet.

 

[sup3rsprt]

Is it ok to delete the 100 MB partition that Win 7 made?

Sure.

I don't remember creating the partition after that or formating the hard drive. (yet there it is).

It's created automatically during Win7 installation.

If I leave it and install Win XP, will the drive show up as C: or D:? Are there any problems you can see that might happen if I install XP on Partition 2? Could I or should I, merge the 2 partitions? or just leave it?

Why don't you just delete all of the partitions and start fresh? Do you have some data on there that you need to save or something?

 

[Redshift40]

Thanks Sup3rsprt.....I don't need to save any data on the drive.

 

[Redshift40]

Someone said on this site that it may corrupt the partition table.

 

[sup3rsprt]

the partition table is stored in the master boot record (MBR). Since you don't have any data on there, even deleting the MBR is safe. When you repartition and install XP it will recreate the MBR automatically, so there's no sense even worrying about it.

During Windows XP installation I would delete all partitions then create at least two new partitions. One for XP (something around 16GB) and one for data.

 

[smarteyeball]

. Well, I had too many problems in the little time I played with it.

You should have checked here first. We could have helped you with those issues

System hung at welcome screen on 3 rd boot after installing the video card drivers. Would not load my motherboard drivers or Video card drivers off of CD's.

Did you try installing your chipset drivers with compatibility mode? Chances are they would have installed properly that way.

Your video drivers would have hung the system because your chipset drivers were not installed.

Win 7 comes with a IE 8 32 bit and IE 8 64 bit ver. The 64 bit ver does not support Adobe Flash, and the 32 bit ver has some major problems with not going to some links you click on. The 64 bit ver not supporting flash is useless to me as a designer.

No x64 bit browsers support flash yet. The only x64 flash available is an Adobe alpha release currently only available on Linux.

 

[chev65]

I had an honest go at Win 7 (clean install on my new system) I read many reviews and found most to be positive with not many problems. Well, I had too many problems in the little time I played with it. System hung at welcome screen on 3 rd boot after installing the video card drivers. Would not load my motherboard drivers or Video card drivers off of CD's.
Win 7 comes with a IE 8 32 bit and IE 8 64 bit ver. The 64 bit ver does not support Adobe Flash, and the 32 bit ver has some major problems with not going to some links you click on. For example... if I click on a link on this page... Mighty Web Designs Custom Canadian web designs Internet marketing Photo restorations Clients Page00 none of the links would open in a new window useing IE 32, it will work with IE 64 fine. I know I could use another browser, but hey IE should work. The 64 bit ver not supporting flash is useless to me as a designer.

Any way, now I must go back to Win XP
Is it ok to delete the 100 MB partition that Win 7 made?

I deleted Partition 2 already, but I don't remember creating the partition after that or formating the hard drive. (yet there it is). Don't you have to create one after? I am not a computer expert. Right now my hard drive looks like this...

610478 MB Disk 0 at ID 0 on bus 0 on Atapi (MBR)

Unpartitioned space 1MB
C: Partition 1 (System Rese) NTFS 100 MB (75 free)
D: Partition 2 (NTFS) 610374MB (609843 free)
Unpartitioned space 4MB

If I leave it and install Win XP, will the drive show up as C: or D:? Are there any problems you can see that might happen if I install XP on Partition 2? Could I or should I, merge the 2 partitions? or just leave it?

Intersting because all those links opened right up for using both the 32 and the 64 bit browser. Even adobe Flash sites seemed to be working with my 64 bit IE.

 

[gamepro127]

Intersting because all those links opened right up for using both the 32 and the 64 bit browser. Even adobe Flash sites seemed to be working with my 64 bit IE.

It did for me too!

 

[Redshift40]

Intersting because all those links opened right up for using both the 32 and the 64 bit browser. Even adobe Flash sites seemed to be working with my 64 bit IE.

Strange why they would not work in x32 for me? Can you play a video on say youtube with x64 IE?

 

[chev65]

Strange why they would not work in x32 for me? Can you play a video on say youtube with x64 IE?

No video's with the 64 bit browser because the Adobe flash player for 64 bit isn't quite out yet. But they play in the 32 bit browser no problem there.

All of those site's you posted worked fine with my 64 bit browser though.

Adobe site says this...Adobe is working on Flash Player support for 64-bit platforms as part of our ongoing commitment to the cross-platform compatibility of Flash Player. We expect to provide native support for 64-bit platforms in an upcoming release of Flash Player following Flash Player 10.

 

[lokiundergod]

It sounds like you had a problem with Internet Explorer, not Windows 7. There are plenty of alternatives to IE.

What was the rest of your experience like with Windows 7?

 

[Redshift40]

No video's with the 64 bit browser because the Adobe flash player for 64 bit isn't quite out yet. But they play in the 32 bit browser no problem there.

All of those site's you posted worked fine with my 64 bit browser though.

Adobe site says this...Adobe is working on Flash Player support for 64-bit platforms as part of our ongoing commitment to the cross-platform compatibility of Flash Player. We expect to provide native support for 64-bit platforms in an upcoming release of Flash Player following Flash Player 10.

The sites I posted worked in x64 IE, just not in x32 IE.

On another note, will I loose much speed if I go back to Windows x32 with my new system? (see my specs)

Cheers!

 

[Redshift40]

It sounds like you had a problem with Internet Explorer, not Windows 7. There are plenty of alternatives to IE.

What was the rest of your experience like with Windows 7?

The problem was IE not windows 7. It is not my browser of choice, but as a web designer, I must test in IE.

I liked Win 7, but would not use it yet.

 

[chev65]

The sites I posted worked in x64 IE, just not in x32 IE.

On another note, will I loose much speed if I go back to Windows x32 with my new system? (see my specs)

Cheers!

Those sites worked fine for me with both browsers no problem at all. One of your drivers must be messing up 32bit IE for some reason. So far the only thing that messes up 32bit IE are the Asus Xonar drivers unless you install the patch but that doesn't seem to apply here.

 

[Redshift40]

Those sites worked fine for me with both browsers no problem at all. One of your drivers must be messing up 32bit IE for some reason. So far the only thing that messes up 32bit IE are the Asus Xonar drivers unless you install the patch but that doesn't seem to apply here.

Thank you for testing those sites. I am going to take a long nap and think of what operating system would be best for this new box.