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[mansrm81]

Hello Joan how are you

 

[garysgold]

Welcome to the forums,Spr07.

Gary

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello Joan,......welcome to Seven Forums!

















Later Ted

 

[pato]

hello,

sorry about my English,

I would like to check W7, and I need to know which´s better 32 or 64.


well

thanks


bye

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello pato, welcome to Seven Forums!

Seeing that you're now using XP you'd probably do better with the 32-bit version to start with.















Later Ted

 

[Joan Archer]

Thanks Ted and mansrm81 for the welcome, as I said I'm just here to learn about how things are shaping up with the new OS as it will be a few years before I probably get my hands on it so the more I know the easier it will be when it happens

 

[Spr07]

Thanks

 

[mansrm81]

Hello Spr07 and welcome to the forum

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

As I said I'm just here to learn about how things are shaping up with the new OS as it will be a few years before I probably get my hands on it so the more I know the easier it will be when it happens

Hello Joan.

You do know they're about to release the first public beta of Windows 7; either this month or next. Why don't you start getting prepared to dual boot it with Vista; all you'll need is a partition to put it on, by its self. That's what I'm doing with the pre-beta, Vista on one partition and Windows 7 on another partition. Even better if you have another HDD to put it on.

Of course we're here for any information about this you may need....
(it's not as scary as it sounds)...



Later Ted

 

[othman11]

Hi all.
Hope to add to the brain trust as time goes by.

 

[mansrm81]

Hello and welcome to 7 forum othman11

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello othman11, welcome to Seven Forums!

















Later Ted

 

[garysgold]

Hello Othman11. Welcome to the forums.

Hello Joan.

You do know they're about to release the first public beta of Windows 7; either this month or next. Why don't you start getting prepared to dual boot it with Vista; all you'll need is a partition to put it on, by its self. That's what I'm doing with the pre-beta, Vista on one partition and Windows 7 on another partition. Even better if you have another HDD to put it on.

Of course we're here for any information about this you may need....
(it's not as scary as it sounds)...



Later Ted

Very true, Joan. I had never done dual boot before and I was a bit worried about messing up Vista, but it went slick. I put it on a seperate HDD, but not really necessary if you have room on your present HDD. I did do a backup just in case, but wasn't needed.

Gary

 

[johngalt]

FWIW - I actually tested Vista and have in hand the RC1 DVDs that M$ sent me - Vista 32bit, Vista 64bi and the other one - and since I had read somewhere that the old testing keys were reactivated for W7, I tried it - and it worked. I was able to install, and then it activated just fine.

hence, I am now testing 6801 and reporting all sorts of strange things that I fined - including the Help system telling me constantly that I am offline when I am obviously typing this message lol.

 

[garysgold]

FWIW - I actually tested Vista and have in hand the RC1 DVDs that M$ sent me - Vista 32bit, Vista 64bi and the other one - and since I had read somewhere that the old testing keys were reactivated for W7, I tried it - and it worked. I was able to install, and then it activated just fine.

hence, I am now testing 6801 and reporting all sorts of strange things that I fined - including the Help system telling me constantly that I am offline when I am obviously typing this message lol.

Good show, JG.

They haven't got many of the help files in this build. Probably need to rewrite them to show the changes that have been made/will be made. They say the public beta will be basically a finished version so maybe the help files will be in there.

Gary

 

[Joan Archer]

That's a thought Ted, I have done dual booting before.

When I first got my copy of XP, a gift from an MVP friend of mine, I put it on my WinME machine as a dual boot until I got my new Compaq which came with XP.
Had problems with that and the recovery disc's I had to make for it didn't work so I just formatted and installed my copy of XP which meant I didn't have to have all the crap that HP put on the machine.

I've now passed that one over to my husband now I've got a Vista machine and I'm sure I'd have room to occupy Windows 7. It came with a 250 GB drive and know I'll never fill that up, I don't do photo or video work or have music on here so the drive could be partitioned.
I had PowerQuest Partition Magic when I did it before on the WinME machine. I'd be a bit nervous about doing it on here and screwing something up though

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello Joan.

You don't need a third party disk manager; have a look at this. Disk Management

Also have a look at this thread. http://www.sevenforums.com/software/695-easybcd.html

It really is quite easy, and Windows 7 is very stable....











Later Ted

 

[Joan Archer]

I'll study those when I have a bit more time thanks for the links Ted

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

You're welcome Joan!

















Later Ted

 

[pooch]

Hi Dmex
Thanks for the welcome.

I took my time getting here wasnt sure if I wanted to wait until the new OS was here or not.

Nosiness has won............

Pooch