Anyone dual boot into Windows 7 to try it out? I really want to try out the new Beta but I don't want to mess with my main Vista laptop.
Windows 7 - dual boot anyone?
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+1 i just got vista 64 working like a champ on my desktop thats been super buggy with vista 32.
Well this is frustrating.
I have a 120GB HD on the Vista laptop of which I have 60GB free and the Vista Disk Manager can only allocate 12 GB. This didn't change even when I turned off the pagefile. WTH?
Windows 7 apparently has a 16gb min. requirement. 
Personally, I would purchase a cheap 2nd drive and use it as a sandbox to play with Win7, or any other OS. With an additional connector, you can use the other drive as a USB storage disk.
Originally Posted By: chuckerants
Well this is frustrating.
I have a 120GB HD on the Vista laptop of which I have 60GB free and the Vista Disk Manager can only allocate 12 GB. This didn't change even when I turned off the pagefile. WTH?
Windows 7 apparently has a 16gb min. requirement.
Yup, I only have one partition on C Drive.
After some research, it seems the inability to "shrink" the HD may be ue to some immovable system files that Vista puts at the end of the partition.
I may try using an external USB drive before trying a 3rd party partition manager.
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Does your 120GB drive have 60GB on the *same* partition? If so, the installation disk may not be able to clear that much data for a new partition just because it's free; it may only deem 12GB as partitionable.
Also, I have seen many manufactured systems with a disk partition for backups and system restores. For example, D:\HP_BACKUP or something to that effect.
I guess the first thing I'd try when troubleshooting is to defrag the main drive to ease any NTFS partition resizing attempts and try 'er again.
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Originally Posted By: chuckerants
Well this is frustrating.
I have a 120GB HD on the Vista laptop of which I have 60GB free and the Vista Disk Manager can only allocate 12 GB. This didn't change even when I turned off the pagefile. WTH?
Windows 7 apparently has a 16gb min. requirement.
I have dual boot of W7 right now and XP. You manage to get a product key for W7? They stopped allowing download of w7 a few weeks ago along with product keys for it.
I ended up using Easeus Partition Master to free up 24GB and installed W7. It's funny how I had 60GB free before and with a new 25GB partition, I now have 54GB free. This must be the new math according to Microsoft. 
And no I don't have product key. It asked for it, but I just hit NEXT and it installed fine. I have version 7077.
And no I don't have product key. It asked for it, but I just hit NEXT and it installed fine. I have version 7077.
Originally Posted By: Buffman
I have dual boot of W7 right now and XP. You manage to get a product key for W7? They stopped allowing download of w7 a few weeks ago along with product keys for it.
I have a dual boot Vista and Windows 7 set-up. I use Vista at work b/c only officially released OS's can be used in mission critical environments. I use Windows 7 at home with absolutely no complaints. I actually wish I could use Windows 7 at work now.
Originally Posted By: chuckerants
I ended up using Easeus Partition Master to free up 24GB and installed W7. It's funny how I had 60GB free before and with a new 25GB partition, I now have 54GB free. This must be the new math according to Microsoft.
And no I don't have product key. It asked for it, but I just hit NEXT and it installed fine. I have version 7077.
And no I don't have product key. It asked for it, but I just hit NEXT and it installed fine. I have version 7077.
Originally Posted By: Buffman
I have dual boot of W7 right now and XP. You manage to get a product key for W7? They stopped allowing download of w7 a few weeks ago along with product keys for it.
So far, W7 seems to be noticibly faster that Vista. Some of that perception could be that I have a clean install, but I even notice the speed on W7 in a simple opertion like rendering photos in a directory.
Vista takes forever to convert photo icons to thumbnails but W7 is MUCH faster.
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