Rocky Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 A brand new 1Tb HD was delivered this morning, so nothing is stopping me from FINALLY installing my pre-ordered Windows 7 Anything I should know up front? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pave Low Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 Don't blink during the install or you'll miss it it is that quick and smooth Windows 7 installation feedback thread - how did it go for you .... .....Ahh, I remember..... Mine tomorrow, I'll post up how it goes Hopefully over the next 5 days on holiday I'll finally get my new OS installed hehe, better late than never welcome to the Win 7 party (or should we wait till it's definitely on the drive to say that ) Wow has it really been 10 months crikey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted August 20, 2010 Author Share Posted August 20, 2010 LMAO, I am soooo behind. Got my partitioning all worked out for the 3 drives... Samsung 1TB HD OS : 100 GB Games : 300 GB Websites : 200 GB Downloads : 60GB Media Projects : Whatever is left (around 300GB probably) Samsung 500 GB HD Digital Photos : 300 GB MP3 files : 150 GB Seagate External Drive 300Gb Backups : Digital Photos + Websites Hitachi 300 GB HD Retired (I am pretty sure there are not enough power connections for three HDs in there) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl Ledanek Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 get some woods and a sacrificial lamb ready? You know I'm not the tech guru here, but, cross-fingers, I've been happy with my WinPRO7 ....I'm sure you'll do fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeanMF Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 There's really no reason to partition a hard drive these days unless you want to dual boot into a different OS or something along those lines. You can just make everything one big partition and not ever worry about it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CR6 Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 Although I don't partition a HD into as many parts as I used to, I like to at least have 3 partitions these days: Usually dual booting XP and Vista/Win7 and a 3rd partition for data (docs, movies, music) so if I have to reinstall an OS, I don't have to touch the data. Sometimes like to have a "workspace/scratch partition" to experiment installing stuff on or put raw video etc before editing it. I used to have a separate partition for the virtual cache, but have been doing that less lately. I just set the cache to a fixed size (at least 4GB) in each respective OS's partition and doesnt' seem to cause much probs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROCO*AFZ* Posted August 31, 2010 Share Posted August 31, 2010 Welcome to the Darkside.. Muhahahah! Lets give Rocky a Windows 7 quiz.... 1) Can you find how to print a test page to your printer? (It's changed lol) Next person... ask him a to find something lol Overall windows 7 is great. Just remember to right click and go to properties and choose run as admin to any games or such that don't play nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CR6 Posted August 31, 2010 Share Posted August 31, 2010 Next person... ask him a to find something lol Here's an easy one - where is the "Show Desktop" button on the taskbar? So far only 2 complaints: 1) The stock ticker gadget for the desktop in Vista is gone - why?? 2) No proper parental controls - have to download Windows Family Safety which seems to be a pain to configure. Anyhoo, last weekend I just installed Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit on a Dell XPS M1330 I bought for my dad a couple years back. It kept BSODing with Vista and I figured no harm trying Win7 to see if it made a difference (I had tried other things like switching the memory, uninstalling bloatware etc.) So far with Win7 it's working fine, even though I don't believe Dell has released "official Win7 drivers" for this laptop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted August 31, 2010 Author Share Posted August 31, 2010 Once it's installed, I'll answer those teasers! Although I could probably guess/answer them already! Test Page Print. That's easy, fire up Paint Shop Pro, got to print, maintenance, nozzle check. job done lol. Show Desktop, hmm, I am guessing it's kind of like the XP icon for the desktop somewhere down there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnTC02 Posted August 31, 2010 Share Posted August 31, 2010 Show Desktop, hmm, I am guessing it's kind of like the XP icon for the desktop somewhere down there. Not quite but you are getting warm, if you have aero activated there is quit a cool feature for momentarily showing the desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeanMF Posted August 31, 2010 Share Posted August 31, 2010 Here's an easy one - where is the "Show Desktop" button on the taskbar? Windows Key + D... Mice are for wimps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted August 31, 2010 Author Share Posted August 31, 2010 Here's an easy one - where is the "Show Desktop" button on the taskbar? Windows Key + D... Mice are for wimps! I use that sc a lot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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