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From: shegeek72 on 5 Jan 2010 03:30 On Jan 4, 5:35 pm, "SteveH" <steve.houghREM...(a)THISblueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > Or.. > He could get one of these, if all the drives are SATA:http://www.antec.com/Detail.bok?no=676 > > And put each OS on its own drive, and swap them as needed. > I've got one for some storage drives, and it works fine. It's she. :) Yes, all drives are SATA. Here are specs: Gigabyte EX58-UD3R Intel Core i7 940 quad 3GB OCZ DDR3 Seagate 1T SATA Seagate 500g SATA (backup) Sapphire Radeon 4850 512mb GDDR3 x2 Antec TPQ-850 850w SLI CrossFire ready Antec 900 case Vista HP 32-bit
From: SteveH on 5 Jan 2010 05:57 shegeek72 wrote: > On Jan 4, 5:35 pm, "SteveH" <steve.houghREM...(a)THISblueyonder.co.uk> > wrote: >> Or.. >> He could get one of these, if all the drives are >> SATA:http://www.antec.com/Detail.bok?no=676 >> >> And put each OS on its own drive, and swap them as needed. >> I've got one for some storage drives, and it works fine. > It's she. :) Sorry m'dear. > > Yes, all drives are SATA. Here are specs: So you /could/ use the suggested caddy, if you chose to. I've just got two drives in my PC, a 750 and a 500. One with XP and one with 7, plus I've got one of those caddies for storage drives and in case I want to experiment with other OS's. Fortunately, none of the people whose PC's I look after ocasionally would touch Vista with a bargepole, and all still have XP. A fair few though are looking now to go to 7 as it seems to be shaping up OK. -- SteveH
From: shegeek72 on 8 Jan 2010 03:09 On Jan 5, 2:57 am, "SteveH" <steve.houghREM...(a)THISblueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > Fortunately, none of the people whose PC's I look after ocasionally would > touch Vista with a bargepole, and all still have XP. A fair few though are > looking now to go to 7 as it seems to be shaping up OK. Hmm...I actually like Vista. If you turn off UAC and make a few tweaks it's not a bad OS. It's more stable, has DX10 and is slicker than XP. I think it's bad rap is mostly undeserved. From what I've seen, and read about, Win7 (on its way from newegg) it's a lot like Vista.
From: Bug Dout on 8 Jan 2010 19:06 shegeek72 <karmictaragem(a)2die4.com> writes: >> Why not just get rid of Vista? > Good question. > > I'm a freelance computer tech (repair, trouble-shoot, build) and like > to have the OS's around that my clients are using, so I can test/ > trouble-shoot on my own systems, if need be (I also have an XP box). Yeah, ok. > Also, perhaps I'm old-school, but I like to wait until the first SP > has been released before committing mission critical systems to a new > OS. Win7 is the second SP for Vista. -- There is no sport in hate when all the rage is on one side. ~ Percy B. Shelley
From: Flasherly on 8 Jan 2010 22:42
On Jan 4, 12:45 am, shegeek72 <karmictara...(a)2die4.com> wrote: > I'm planning to create a Vista/Win7 dual-boot on a system that > currently runs Vista (32-bit) and need feedback on which of two HDs to > use. The 1T has Vista installed and currently has 694gb free. The > second HD has 465gb of 500gb free (both are Seagate). I've heard that > it's better to put the OS's of a dual-boot on separate drives, if > possible. True? If you're comfortable with Ranish and various low level partition manipulators, and, unless there are issues with either W7 or Vista accessing low-level settings, that is, once past the initial installation. I don't run either, just XP. Basically it's about hiding partitions Windows Operating Systems wouldn't need to or shouldn't see. Once the OS is stable, IMO, it's mainly about being very careful about subsequent hardware and sometimes software changes. I just swapped cases last night (and a few minor changes - 1 new USB port, a SATA MB port DVD hookup). Tricky, how XP can screw itself up. But, since I'm ghosted, I was able to repeat the installation and duplicate the errors to find what was causing XP the grief (required stagged, consecutive hardware detection of each piece, singularly, before advancing to next "changes". Three DVDs running simultaneously over separate DMA channels into three 200/250G 5-year-old Seagate HDs. 756 3000 AMD on an Asus, doing it, bumps the temp from 100 to 125F, but still sweet. Getting media off DVDs and onto 1T drives via a USB docking station). I prefer keeping an OS small by installing subsequent software to other partitions (potentially shared OS resources is a further possibility). Then I can Ghost the OS into smaller, faster-to-restore/ write binary-sector images. Once my images are backed-up, Ghost will account adapting to most any sector sizing. Which is circularly roundabout back to low level manipulations. If partitions and drive letter assignments match, should be a mote point, where the operating system is going (aside a little juggling in the OS hardware detection phase, and a drive model ID coming up as detected for different). I personally prefer everything related to an OS on one drive (some partitions/logical assignments of course being hidden by a boot arbitrator), in dealing and keeping storage issues from a core gist of OS "maintenance" -- apart on other drives. |