What's the consensus ? I'm looking for an excuse not to do this I guess.
It's all the patching, games, settings, printers, networking etc.
What's the consensus ? I'm looking for an excuse not to do this I guess.
It's all the patching, games, settings, printers, networking etc.
Society's to blame,
Or possibly Atari.
I can't help it. I'm naturally idle.
Also large amounts of swearing, tea and stomping off for a furious smoke...followed by endless re-boots.
Joy.
Society's to blame,
Or possibly Atari.
If you haven't got Win7 yet, I suggest you start downloading all the drivers and stuff you need now, save it on an external hard drive. Then once you have installed windows, you can hammer the driver installs one after the other instead of download one, installing one, etc
I'm all for the full install. Tried to do a Vista --> Win 7 upgrade the other week, and it took a whole day just to upgrade the OS... then failed and told me it could not upgrade!
My Vista install was a bit of a state though, and this was a temporary fix before I got my hands on Win 7 RTM - just to try and make the Vista install usable again.
So I had to stick it out for a few more weeks, and now running Win 7 RTM from a clean install, which is a much more pleasurable experience than Vista ever was.
Always fancied using a GHOST or similar once i've built a rig that I'm happy with... save me configuring everything again... just never actually got round to it!
I thought the drivers were mostly OK from Vista ?
It's V64 HP to W7 64 HP so fairly straight forward...
Damn, must I really do all that ? Might as well get an SSD then.
Society's to blame,
Or possibly Atari.
Format and reinstall all the way, even with Windows 7 RC1 already installed. Gonna be a fun day Wednesday Night.
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i7 (Bloomfield) Overclocking Guide
Originally Posted by Spock
Desktop (Cy): Intel Core i7 920 D0 @ 3.6GHz, Prolimatech Megahalems, Gigabyte X58-UD5, Patriot Viper DDR3 6GiB @ 1440MHz 7-7-7-20 2T, EVGA NVIDIA GTX 295 Co-Op, Asus Xonar D2X, Hauppauge WinTV Nova TD-500, 2x WD Caviar Black 1TB in RAID 0, 4x Samsung EcoDrive 1.5TB F2s in RAID 5, Corsair HX 750W PSU, Coolermaster RC-1100 Cosmos Sport (Custom), 4x Noctua P12s, 6x Noctua S12Bs, Sony Optiarc DVD+/-RW, Windows 7 Professional Edition, Dell 2408WFP, Mirai 22" HDTV
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i7 (Bloomfield) Overclocking Guide
Originally Posted by Spock
I'm Ok-ish as I have a 400gb external drive I can park things on. But it's mostly the patches, little tools, settings etc.
Actually there's a thought. What would you say is the one tip you would give someone about to do this ? I'm going to go through my downloads folder. There's all sorts in there 3DMark, Everest etc.
Society's to blame,
Or possibly Atari.
My tip is... "if there is above a 40% chance there is a newer version of it, delete it."
That is to say, not including Game patches, etc, anything you actually have a half shot in hell of downloading again because of a new release, delete, because you don't want to install the old version only to find out there is a newer version you should have installed.
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i7 (Bloomfield) Overclocking Guide
Originally Posted by Spock
Good advice.
Did you see this ?
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=20761
If it's an upgrade from a V64, can I not do a clean install ?
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Or possibly Atari.
Yes I did. And if you are upgrading from Vista 64 to 7 64 of the same or similar versions... then you can do either an Upgrade or Custom install, but not both. If you are changing archs, or are upgrading from XP, or not upgrading from a similar version, then you can only do a Custom Install.
Custom install is what you want as it it removes all the messy Vista crap that has filled your HDD. Upgrade simply places all the system files, all 40GB of them, in a Windows.old folder.
Not only that but it's a hit and miss to see which applications are "happy" with the change and which ones condemn you to a horrible horrible death in the hottest corner of hell they can find.
EDIT: Did I seriously just say "but not both"... I've been studying boolean for too long. Not many people explictly differentate between XOR and OR.
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i7 (Bloomfield) Overclocking Guide
Originally Posted by Spock
So - what does custom do ?
What will it delete, what will it keep ?
I was assuming that I wouyld have to a full format and re-install from scratch.
Society's to blame,
Or possibly Atari.
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i7 (Bloomfield) Overclocking Guide
Originally Posted by Spock
Aha !
So Custom == format and install
Now that makes sense.
Society's to blame,
Or possibly Atari.
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