monte70car Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 Allan, Ian whats your take on windows 7? right now its beta form is it a good download over vista? Quote
monte70car Posted January 13, 2009 Author Posted January 13, 2009 im thinking of downloading the beta on my big desktop good move or bad move? Quote
Ian Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 I loaded it up over the weekend on some old hardware and it was not too bad, but I did not leave it on long as I am playing around with Windows Home Server as well. Take a ghost image of you current setup, and play around with it... Quote
monte70car Posted January 13, 2009 Author Posted January 13, 2009 current setup on the desktop if my xp home edtion. rest of my computers support vista. it has a 64x dual core processor 5600+ 2.91ghz and 3.50gb of ram. hard drive wise it support two one thats an 80gb and other is 1tb. Quote
Ian Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 Should run good then. Take a backup of stuff you do not want to loose, start with 1 drive plugged in and give it a shot Ian Quote
monte70car Posted January 13, 2009 Author Posted January 13, 2009 ian did you have to make an iso disc for it? or did it run straight off the computer? so far this morning i've down loaded on my laptop but i cant get it to burn to any of my disc. i got two hp dvd+r and the drive does not pick them up. Quote
Ian Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 It was a ISO that I just burned to a DVD with nero or something. Quote
monte70car Posted January 13, 2009 Author Posted January 13, 2009 if i take the disc i burned last night it shows as it needing to be open using ie, does that sound right? or should it be on something else? Quote
Ian Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 You need to boot the computer from the disc, not open it inside of windows Quote
monte70car Posted January 13, 2009 Author Posted January 13, 2009 i have my computer to boot from dvd-rom first then the hard drive. maybe i need to put it in my cd-r to work? Quote
Ian Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 Nope, it is a DVD, did you burn the ISO to the DVD as a file, or as a image... Quote
monte70car Posted January 13, 2009 Author Posted January 13, 2009 i cant get it to load either way cant even find the button to give me options to boot from a cd. Quote
monte70car Posted January 13, 2009 Author Posted January 13, 2009 allan when i double click it, it opens a internet expoler window. no dvd software comes up. i did burn it on a dvd disc with nero and had no luck. now i get a file download screen. from the down load screen it downloads its self again. Quote
Ian Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 Sounds like you did not actualy download the .iso file... It is 2.5gb Quote
monte70car Posted January 13, 2009 Author Posted January 13, 2009 ive download it twice both times it has come from windows 7 website. it is the iso file coming in 2,557,416kb Quote
Ian Posted January 14, 2009 Posted January 14, 2009 What burning software do you use? If you open the DVD in explorer what do you see on it? Quote
monte70car Posted January 14, 2009 Author Posted January 14, 2009 i used nero and burned it as a data disk. if i double click it is downloads its self again. it does show up on the dvd disk but the drives wont start it when the computer restarts. Quote
monte70car Posted January 14, 2009 Author Posted January 14, 2009 allan here is what i have . when i did the linux iso disk i did not have any problems. i got the beta software from the windows 7 web page. Quote
monte70car Posted January 14, 2009 Author Posted January 14, 2009 i found the burn image option got that burning right now Quote
monte70car Posted January 14, 2009 Author Posted January 14, 2009 yea and allans post. but i cant get it to restart the upgrade when windows xp is running like it tells me to do when i trun to upgrade. so im formating the other harddrive and will try to load it on that drive. when i go to my computer and click on the dvd drive nothing comes up on the disk. Quote
Ian Posted January 14, 2009 Posted January 14, 2009 I never do a upgrade, too many issues to work with... That is why I keep data separate from the OS, that way I can play Ian Quote
monte70car Posted January 14, 2009 Author Posted January 14, 2009 im goin gto play as soon as the other hard drive gets done. i just hope it has a dual boot option. Quote
monte70car Posted January 14, 2009 Author Posted January 14, 2009 i cant even do a new install on the blank drive when i click on the dvd rom the file does not show up. when i restart the computer and press the any key it brings up the windows install screen and the options of an upgrade or custom. Quote
Ian Posted January 14, 2009 Posted January 14, 2009 You have to do custom, then choose the right drive to install it to. Quote
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