Hi guys. Thought I'd let you know how my install went, and hopefully you can help me with my LAN problem.
I was running XP, wasn't gunna buy Vista (or bother cracking it) as XP worked just fine. But Win 7 came out just after I started Uni, so I got it for £30 (£40 cause I got a disk).
What I later relised is my Uni is part of the Microsoft academic alliance software...thing.... so I could have gotten it for free. Never mind.
The install I thought was pretty slow, but I didn't format the drive, so I figured It was busy moving my XP to XP.old. Plus my hard drive is a 3rd hand IDE pile of crap.
Booted it up and I couldn't see one of my hard drives. Full of music and movies. Turns out Win didn't assign a letter to it for whatever reason. Had to open up computer management and do it manually. Took a while to figure out though.
XP mode works great, worth getting professional for tbh. Although if you already have an XP CD key, you can do it on Home Pro, it just won't be as integrated.
My LAN drivers have been a bit troublesome though. I can access the web (obviously) but I have to disable the adapter then enable it before it detects the network. I've got the latest drivers installed, tried them from Asus, Marvel and Win, but still got the problem. Maybe it will be fixed in time, but its very annoying. My Uni requires me to login to the internal network before being switched to the external, so it's like 4-5 mins just to get onto the web. Sometimes its quicker loading XP on the VM.
Other than that most things seem to work fine. CoD 2 kicked up a fuss, but got it workin in the end, and Windows Live loves to crash, but I reckon it's worth £30. Whether it's worth full retail...from XP...yes....from Vista...no. Is my humble opinion.
Good luck guys, hope it goes better for you than it did for me!


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