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From: the wharf rat on 4 Jan 2010 17:41 In article <7qektqFb6vU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Adrian C <email(a)here.invalid> wrote: > >IBM had a laptop manufacturing plant in Greenock, Scotland, UK - and >other places including Mexico. They had assembly plants in other places (perhaps). The parts were always made in China. Mexico and Greenock do not have PCB fabs.
From: Ryan P. on 4 Jan 2010 21:46 On 1/1/2010 2:50 PM, Cameo wrote: >> Have you made the switch yet? > > Yes, I did and Win7 itself mostly works fine -- thanks to Microsoft's > thorough support in this case. The problem is the HP support because > they decided not to support this originally Vista model with Win7 > drivers. I am using the 64-bit Win7 and some of the 64-bit Vista drivers > do work more or less with it but still, models this recent should not be > abandoned by HP on a new OS that came out in the last few months. > > To play safe with the Win7 install, I used a partitioning software to > reduce the 32-bit Vista partition on the 250 GB HD to about 80 GB, in > essence making the small recovery partition take up the rest of the HD. > Then I *custom installed* the *upgrade version* of 64-bit Win7 in the > recovery partition. At the end of the process I got a dual boot > situation, allowing me to boot into either of the old 32-bit Vista > partition or the new 64-bit Win7. The process worked pretty smoothly and > when something does not work in the new one, I can still go back to the > old Vista. This is a pretty safe upgrade and that's what I would > recommend for you to try as well. Once everything is working in Win7, I > can delete the Vista partition and allocate it's space to Win7. > > Have you run the MS upgrade advisor software? That would tell you what > would work for you and what would not in Win7. So, I took your advice and resized my partitions as you did, and installed Win7 on the second partition. Amazingly, everything feels a bit snappier, even with the default "Windows Knows Best" graphical settings. With Vista, I had to set everything for "best performance" in order to get smooth DVD playback. Other than the Quickplay buttons not turning orange when I hit mute, I haven't noticed any other issues. The card reader, wireless, graphics and audio all worked without me having to install the drivers I downloaded from HP. There are some pieces of software that I still have to test before I make the full switch, though.
From: Cameo on 5 Jan 2010 15:00 "Ryan P." <rdeletepaque(a)wi.rr.comm> wrote in message news:hhu95o$ad5$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > So, I took your advice and resized my partitions as you did, and > installed Win7 on the second partition. Amazingly, everything feels a > bit snappier, even with the default "Windows Knows Best" graphical > settings. With Vista, I had to set everything for "best performance" > in order to get smooth DVD playback. > > Other than the Quickplay buttons not turning orange when I hit mute, > I haven't noticed any other issues. The card reader, wireless, > graphics and audio all worked without me having to install the drivers > I downloaded from HP. > > There are some pieces of software that I still have to test before I > make the full switch, though. That's great! I'm glad you like it. For me the move over Win7 fixed even my Bluetooth problem that had developed under Vista. I thought maybe the BT hardware was toast, but when I saw it working under Win7, I knew it was some Vista driver update that had screwed it up. Does the dual boot work for you, too?
From: Ryan P. on 5 Jan 2010 20:02 On 1/5/2010 2:00 PM, Cameo wrote: > "Ryan P." <rdeletepaque(a)wi.rr.comm> wrote in message >> Other than the Quickplay buttons not turning orange when I hit mute, I >> haven't noticed any other issues. The card reader, wireless, graphics >> and audio all worked without me having to install the drivers I >> downloaded from HP. >> >> There are some pieces of software that I still have to test before I >> make the full switch, though. > > That's great! I'm glad you like it. For me the move over Win7 fixed even > my Bluetooth problem that had developed under Vista. I thought maybe the > BT hardware was toast, but when I saw it working under Win7, I knew it > was some Vista driver update that had screwed it up. Does the dual boot > work for you, too? No issues with the dual boot. I'm more worried about when I decide to migrate completely to Win7. I'm a little leery about about merging the partitions into one without messing up the MBR. I wonder if it'd be safer just to shrink down the first partition to a couple gigs, and just leaving the dual boot with a 2 second delay. Or maybe just buy a new hard drive... I wonder if MS would have a problem with two installs in two weeks!
From: Barry Watzman on 5 Jan 2010 20:31
Re: "I'm more worried about when I decide to migrate completely to Win7. I'm a little leery about about merging the partitions into one without messing up the MBR." Be aware that Vista and Windows 7 do not use the MBR boot scheme originally introduced with MS-DOS 2.0 and used in very OS until Vista (e.g. through XP). Instead, both Vista and Windows 7 use the "BCD" boot scheme (BCD = boot configuration data). It's a whole different system for booting. I have XP and Windows 7 dual boot on this machine. If you do that, you will lose system restore on both OS', and there are some other issues (incompatibilities) as well, although they are not major. But I'm not sure that you could ever combine the XP and 7 partitions; I think if you wanted to truly get rid of XP, you would have to start over. Ryan P. wrote: > On 1/5/2010 2:00 PM, Cameo wrote: >> "Ryan P." <rdeletepaque(a)wi.rr.comm> wrote in message > >>> Other than the Quickplay buttons not turning orange when I hit mute, I >>> haven't noticed any other issues. The card reader, wireless, graphics >>> and audio all worked without me having to install the drivers I >>> downloaded from HP. >>> >>> There are some pieces of software that I still have to test before I >>> make the full switch, though. >> >> That's great! I'm glad you like it. For me the move over Win7 fixed even >> my Bluetooth problem that had developed under Vista. I thought maybe the >> BT hardware was toast, but when I saw it working under Win7, I knew it >> was some Vista driver update that had screwed it up. Does the dual boot >> work for you, too? > > No issues with the dual boot. I'm more worried about when I decide to > migrate completely to Win7. I'm a little leery about about merging the > partitions into one without messing up the MBR. I wonder if it'd be > safer just to shrink down the first partition to a couple gigs, and just > leaving the dual boot with a 2 second delay. > > Or maybe just buy a new hard drive... I wonder if MS would have a > problem with two installs in two weeks! |