Windows 7 arrived today!

[annodomini2]

Menguin said:

john_p said:

Menguin said:

Got my copy yesterday too.

Problem though - I press 'any' key to boot from DVD, it loads the nice looking W7 screen, then nothing?

Any ideas?

I am currently running the 64-bit RC and didn't have any problems installing that?

How long did you leave it? It spent a good 10 minutes at the initial screen when I installed mine.

Removed all USB connections and it worked..weird!

Now I get the joyous

DISK BOOT FAILURE INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER

if I try to boot without W7 DVD in the drive... A bit of googling seems to suggest I should disconnect ALL other HDDs when installing... christ can't Microsoft get anything right?

I found when installing 7 64bit RC, if you have more than 4GB ram in the system this causes issues.

RC only had the US English language packs in the installer, causing lots of issues.

Yup the Single HDD thing was one of the issues for RC.

[onlynik]

Menguin said:

john_p said:

Menguin said:

Got my copy yesterday too.

Problem though - I press 'any' key to boot from DVD, it loads the nice looking W7 screen, then nothing?

Any ideas?

I am currently running the 64-bit RC and didn't have any problems installing that?

How long did you leave it? It spent a good 10 minutes at the initial screen when I installed mine.

Removed all USB connections and it worked..weird!

Now I get the joyous

DISK BOOT FAILURE INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER

if I try to boot without W7 DVD in the drive... A bit of googling seems to suggest I should disconnect ALL other HDDs when installing... christ can't Microsoft get anything right?

I had no issues when installing.

Installed with multiple drives and on to an array perfectly.

[Menguin]

onlynik said:

Menguin said:

john_p said:

Menguin said:

Got my copy yesterday too.

Problem though - I press 'any' key to boot from DVD, it loads the nice looking W7 screen, then nothing?

Any ideas?

I am currently running the 64-bit RC and didn't have any problems installing that?

How long did you leave it? It spent a good 10 minutes at the initial screen when I installed mine.

Removed all USB connections and it worked..weird!

Now I get the joyous

DISK BOOT FAILURE INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER

if I try to boot without W7 DVD in the drive... A bit of googling seems to suggest I should disconnect ALL other HDDs when installing... christ can't Microsoft get anything right?

I had no issues when installing.

Installed with multiple drives and on to an array perfectly.

That fills me with a warm glow inside

Seems to be quite a widespread issue with both the RC and actual version.

[Digger]

Out of interest what is the size of the installation on your particular flavour of the OS? Considering doing a fresh install of it on my eeepc 901 which has both a 4 and 8gb ssd.

[Menguin]

I'll check when I get back. The windows folder has a habit of growing exponentially though, so your 8gb might be enough for a fresh install but like a malignant tumor Windows will slowly bloat and kill off your remaining free gb.

[james_gt3rs]

I've had a full legal copy of Windows 7 for about 2 weeks (not the RC!)

It was a free download from my University which have a partnership with Microsoft, so I get plenty of free MS software (which is rarely used, but nice to have).

[Funk]

I've got Home Premium pre-ordered (waiting for it any day now) for my laptop as I've been running the RC on it and very impressed. Thinking about switching the PC over as well - can anyone recommend somewhere where I can get a good price on 7 Professional? I'd like the XP-compatibility and RDP stuff (currently running XP Pro). Wish I'd pre-ordered W7Pro as well at the same time but I wasn't sure I'd switch the tower away from XPP!

[FrankCayman]

It still looks cheap and nasty...

[Scraggles]

win 7 coming with a 1 TB drive sometime soon, hopefully when working at home

mulling over dropping it onto the vista games machine and dropping vista or ubuntu onto the downloads pc

does it need a full format - win 7 home premium or will it overwrite ok ?

[TonyToniTone]

FrankCayman said:

It still looks cheap and nasty...

oh it looks so awful

[FrankCayman]

TonyToniTone said:

FrankCayman said:

It still looks cheap and nasty...

oh it looks so awful

From your response I can see you are a man of great taste...

[Ordinary_Chap]

FrankCayman said:

TonyToniTone said:

FrankCayman said:

It still looks cheap and nasty...

oh it looks so awful

From your response I can see you are a man of great taste...

Troll.

[TonyToniTone]

FrankCayman said:

From your response I can see you are a man of great taste...

I take it you don't like champagne?

[Dr.Doofenshmirtz]

AB said:

What I will never, ever understand is why people get excited over their PC not crashing?

If my Mac crashed, I'd be livid. I take it for granted that it doesn't.

Windows works on thousands of different hardware manufacturer platforms, where as MacOS runs on proprietary hardware only...so it's not exactly difficult to make it stable.
It's amazing how good Windows is really.

[AB]

Zod said:

AB said:

Ordinary_Chap said:

Nero601 said:

ah gates doing what he does best......... plagiarism.

Muppet.

Back to Windows 7, I've been using it since the RC and it's an awesome OS, very fast, secure and not one crash.

What I will never, ever understand is why people get excited over their PC not crashing?

If my Mac crashed, I'd be livid. I take it for granted that it doesn't.

So you never have to Force Quit an app?

Never have.

[Ordinary_Chap]

AB said:

Zod said:

AB said:

Ordinary_Chap said:

Nero601 said:

ah gates doing what he does best......... plagiarism.

Muppet.

Back to Windows 7, I've been using it since the RC and it's an awesome OS, very fast, secure and not one crash.

What I will never, ever understand is why people get excited over their PC not crashing?

If my Mac crashed, I'd be livid. I take it for granted that it doesn't.

So you never have to Force Quit an app?

Never have.

You must be exceptionally lucky or you dont give the box a workout then. Although I know plenty of windows PC's that have gone without reboot or issue for several years so I guess it's possible even if it's not likely.

I don't want to beat up on mac as I own several and some windows machines but since the advent of Leopard/Snow Leopard the reliability is somewhat questionable.

The problem with both Windows and OSX is 3rd party applications/drivers, neither OS can stop badly written code causing problems from time to time.

I think in Vista/7 the crash management has greatly improved with both OS's being able to catch a lot of application crashes rather than simply blue screening. Saying that I've experienced no problems in 7 since using it although I'm sure something will pop up sooner or later as it does in OSX.

[AB]

I used Vista in the office and found it terrible.

I went back to XP and it doesn't blue screen but it freezes a lot.

[jamoor]

Is this actually any good?

What does it do better than XP?

I am thinking of changing but after having used Vista, I am taking a very dim view of it.

[Digger]

Guys. What is the size of the installation folder(s) and which flavour have you installed?

[Bill Carr]

Digger said:

Guys. What is the size of the installation folder(s) and which flavour have you installed?

I'd be interested to learn this too - thinking of putting it on a Dell mini 9 with 8gb ssd.