How did you install Windows 7?

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Permalink Reply by AdamR on January 19, 2009 at 11:13am

Backed up my AppData, booted off of the Windows 7 disc, formatted my Vista partition, installed Windows 7, no need for driver installation afterwards, and restored my AppData folder.

It was as smooth as it could possibly be for me. :)

- Adam

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Permalink Reply by Ory D. Medina on January 19, 2009 at 11:25am

all my data is in a different partition so i just booted fron the seven disc and installed as smooth as a hot knife over butter

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Permalink Reply by jacob on January 19, 2009 at 11:47am

throo vertual pc it rane as smooth as a hot nife on butter butt alitle slow tyler use my computer so you know

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Permalink Reply by Danny on July 28, 2009 at 8:21pm

Through* virtual* ran* knife* but* a little* (insert period after slow) Tyler,*

<.< I majored in English; couldn't help myself. :O)

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Permalink Reply by Tyler on August 21, 2009 at 4:34pm

LOL... I love English.

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Permalink Reply by jake on January 20, 2009 at 4:59am

backed up my pc's data on a dvd (wow a 4.2gb dvd usualy i use over a dvd-dl)
booted the windows 7 dvd and formatted my whole hdd (apart from the 8.9gb on the recovery partition that installs vista) inatalled windows 7 like yea a red hot knife on butter.
im going to try and avoid going back to vista.

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Permalink Reply by RedFlameOut on January 20, 2009 at 10:04am

I have all my important data on other drives (using Vista) and backed up so I installed on a spare 400 GB drive and dual boot Vista and W7. No issues at all.

I also installed it on older hardware:

• AMD 3800+ X2 65 watt CPU
• Older Gigabyte mobo with ATI 1250? built in video
• 2 GB DDR2 memory

It installed fine on both and works very well.

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Permalink Reply by SaminTN on January 30, 2009 at 9:07pm

I have 4 200 gb hds in my machine 1 for xp, 1 for vista, 1 for win 7, and 1 for movies, music, and software testing. I just switch to the hd in bios I want to boot. Install was flawless.

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Permalink Reply by Barbara on January 31, 2009 at 9:12pm

First i loaded win7 over the top of winXP. Win7 loaded fine but crashed continuously. Formated and partitioned the HD and loaded WinXP into the first partition then loaded win7 into the other partition. Win7 is now stable but still has problems with checking itself for errors and will not run the program to test the speed of the computer.

Win7 does not come with an Email handler but i was able to download windows live and it replaces Outlook Express and reads Outlook Express files.

What i miss most is the ability to boot from the CD and get to the repair functions available with XP which allows you to choose a different boot track on the HD , plus re-write the Root on the HD etc etc etc.

I do like Win7 and i am sure i will buy Win7 when it comes out, minus the bugs.

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Permalink Reply by Ian Walker on February 1, 2009 at 6:43pm

I installed it as a VM and it went without any problems :)

Take care.

Ian

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Permalink Reply by David Crandall on February 1, 2009 at 7:54pm

I had problems at first because of the download manager...I was doing too much for my computer's RAM to handle while downloading and my computer shut off and did a "memory dump." When I restarted the download manager, it seemed to be fine, but after burning my DVD and running the setup, it said it couldn't extract all the files as some may be corrupt or missing...(something like that.) After redownloading it a second time WITHOUT interruption or pauses, it installed rather smoothly and quickly; much faster than XP or Vista in my experience.

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Permalink Reply by Tyler on February 4, 2009 at 6:01pm

I really dislike the download manager. :)

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