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MM2004
10-31-2009, 08:12 AM
http://www.mercurymarauder.net/gallery/data/500/medium/Win7.JPG

Very cool to have this done as of last week.

Still some 'tweaking' to do but is up and running great!

Started with backing up all data to the second HDD then mounted the XP Pro CD and blew all partitions away on the Primary drive.

Repartitioned the HDD as shown above and started loading the OS's.

XP, Vista then Windows 7. In that order.

Patched all OS's accordingly and installed AV software.

If anyone has considered doing something like this, go for it!

Piece of cake.

Windows 7 is awesome! IMO

:beer:

Mike.
ImpalaSlayer
10-31-2009, 08:14 AM
whats the point in having all 3? :confused:
MM2004
10-31-2009, 08:17 AM
whats the point in having all 3? :confused:

Keeps me familiar with the most common MS OS's out there.

I side-job working on PC's as well as desktop support/LAN Admin. full time.

Also, because I could.

:D

Mike.
ImpalaSlayer
10-31-2009, 08:21 AM
Keeps me familiar with the most common MS OS's out there.

I side-job working on PC's as well as desktop support/LAN Admin. full time.

Also, because I could.

:D

Mike.


ahhh. i need to lean more about PC.s
FordNut
10-31-2009, 08:44 AM
I still like W2K better than anything they've come up with since.
Mongoose
10-31-2009, 08:50 AM
Piece of cake.

:beer:

Mike.

More like too many Diet Millers:P
1stMerc
10-31-2009, 09:10 AM
Keeps me familiar with the most common MS OS's out there.

I side-job working on PC's as well as desktop support/LAN Admin. full time.

Also, because I could.

:D

Mike.

Agree, fortunately, company doesn't change os's that frequently, so home is always ahead of work systems.
1stMerc
10-31-2009, 09:14 AM
I still like W2K better than anything they've come up with since.

Only thing i didn't like about 2k was it's incompatbilty with a lot of the hardware and software available at the time. Made a lot of things obsolete real quick, due to not being plug and play, like the others.
MrBluGruv
10-31-2009, 09:24 AM
I have a similar setup with XP and Vista on my laptop. When i bought the laptop, it was not too long after Vista came out, and it came preinstalled on it. Took me two days to decide that XP was going on it. It would take precisely 15 seconds from double-click to audio for Vista to play an mp3 file, and that's absurd. I've yet to have a chance to play with 7 yet, but I think our office is getting a copy to try out and get acquainted with for managing the campus once students start getting it and want to connect to our systems. I'm looking forward to it personally, I've heard a lot of good things about 7 especially copared to XP
RR|Suki
10-31-2009, 09:55 AM
I have a similar setup with XP and Vista on my laptop. When i bought the laptop, it was not too long after Vista came out, and it came preinstalled on it. Took me two days to decide that XP was going on it. It would take precisely 15 seconds from double-click to audio for Vista to play an mp3 file, and that's absurd. I've yet to have a chance to play with 7 yet, but I think our office is getting a copy to try out and get acquainted with for managing the campus once students start getting it and want to connect to our systems. I'm looking forward to it personally, I've heard a lot of good things about 7 especially copared to XP

sounds like your computer was just too slow to run vista...