Windows 7 Sucks...

Question for some of you tech guys:

I am upgrading 7 over my XP. I am doing the backup of some of my data and programs. However, I don't have an external device. My drive I am installing Windows 7 on has 2 partitions, once is 400GB and the other is 100GB. If I backup my data/programs to the 100GB partition and install Windows 7 on the 400GB partition, i should be ok right? (i.e. if i install on the 400gb partition, the install won't touch the 2nd 100gb partition).

TIA

 

Yeah, that's correct. Just backup all of your data to one of the partitions and install to the other. The install won't touch it, unless you specifically tell it to format the other drive.

 

I don't know how the backing up programs part would go but all your data that is on the 100gb partition will be fine....

 

Which is usually what happens...

 

Win7 is just like Vista...what's the difference??

 

What kind of observation is this? Have you even tried it?

 

For the most part, visually, you're right. Most of its improvements are under the hood.

 

I just finished installing it tonight. The cosmetics so far are pretty close to Vista. Performance wise, its leaps and bounds better than Vista.

I've spend two hours trouble shooting a sound issue ... looks like my sound card is dead (had a lot of trouble with it on XP) so I switched to onboard audio. Simply clicking on the sound icon automatically trouble shoots, instead of meticulously going through several places to trouble shoot.

I didn't have a DVD player, so I ripped it onto a USB drive from another computer and it installed perfectly fine.

I think a big part of Windows 7's success is due to making everything easier and smoother vs making people jump through multiple security hoops.

 

Any good deals anywhere? I'm on XP right now but would like to upgrade to Windows 7 64-bit so I can take advantage of all 4 gigs of RAM. I doubled from 2 last week only to find out my computer won't recognize all of it

 

several years back, DoD convinced me to switch over to mac.......and life has been all snugly kittens and juicy peaches since then

 

Do you know any students?

I believe it is for ~$30-40 for students.

 

Just keep in mind that you cannot install Windows 7 on top of XP. You have to do a complete install.

 

Very happy with Windows 7.

I upgraded from XP 32bit to 7 64bit. Its like going from driving a Corvair to a Corvette.

Running:
Pentium Core 2 Duo 2.6ghz, 3mb L2 cache, 1066 FSB
2 GB 1066 FSB RAM
500 MB Maxtor 3.0 gb/s transfer rate
Dual Monitor setup on an NVIDIA 7900 GTX 512mb graphic card

 

The OP criticized Microsoft's marketing, and I see little reason to disagree. It's pretty laughable. Marketing does matter. If it didn't we'd all very well be using OS/2 or Amigas or SGI's, Be-Boxes, or NEXT cubes.

Their marketing slogan used to be "Where do you want to go today?"
My question, which is probably not so different than most people's now is, "Where can you take me that I haven't been to already?"

It's a fair question and they failed to answer that.

There's nothing in Microsoft's marketing that is telling me why I HAVE to use Windows 7, as a home user, as a hobbyist, as a business owner, or as an IT professional. There doesn't seem to be any new functionality I can't live without, and if there is, they failed to tell me what it was.

 

I have been a Windows guy all my life and finally bought a Mac Book Pro a couple months ago and it is truly a well put together machine and the OS is just fluid.

I still have windows computers but more and more i see myself using them less these days.

 

WTH? I did? lol.

 

I don't think people buy operating systems because they have to. In most cases, they just do or are forced to in some way or another. There's a reason MS hasn't had to really advertise much of anything to get a 90%+ dominance in the market place - word of mouth and it's what's used in the workplace. How often have you seen MS advertise Office or Windows? They now face a mini-threat from OS X and the "stink", whether deserved or not, from Vista, so they're advertising. Lastly, when you buy a new Windows laptop or desktop, you'll get Windows 7. Hence, they've sold it to you without you needing to know or ask anything.

 

I can hook you up with a student copy.

 

I'm a student and I checked the school bookstore site last night...said it was $170. Then I looked again just now and noticed they have the upgrade to 64-bit Ultimate for $99. I'll probably get that.

 

yeah....actually i think i asked u a few questions about macs, and then about 5min after reading your reply i ordered the thing on apple.com