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visesh

As someone who is going to be installing Windows 7 soonish, how does one avoid that?

Unplugging the harddrive on which you have your existing install while you do the new install should do it, assuming you are installing on a new drive. If you are installing on the old drive, there's no problem anyways.

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ukdragon37

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Tom

I know, I know! Several people on TSR and elsewhere have told me this now. But nobody knows how to fix it :frown:

You need to edit the partition table to set the bootable flag to the SSD partition and remove it from the vista partition. You can do this by using fdisk in a recovery console in a Windows setup CD or (my preferred method) using a partition editor on a Linux LiveCD (e.g. Ubuntu). After this you can either run "fixboot" and "fixmbr" under the Win7 CD's recovery console or reinstall Win7 again.

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smilepea

I'm strangely awake so I'm going to do some work for my sociology essay, :yucky:

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ukdragon37

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visesh

As someone who is going to be installing Windows 7 soonish, how does one avoid that?

Tom's method will work, but some jiggery-pockery will need to be done if you are installing to a new drive and you can't remove the old one (like in a netbook for example).

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Tom

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ukdragon37

You need to edit the partition table to set the bootable flag to the SSD partition and remove it from the vista partition. You can do this by using fdisk in a recovery console in a Windows setup CD or (my preferred method) using a partition editor on a Linux LiveCD (e.g. Ubuntu). After this you can either run "fixboot" and "fixmbr" under the Win7 CD's recovery console or reinstall Win7 again.

Thanks. I shall give this a go tomorrow...

At least win 7 has been marginally less of a pain than XP was...I remmeber installing that that I ended up having to get a compsci friend to make a disk of drivers etc for me after scratching my head for a few days.

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visesh

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Thanks guys. I wiped Ubuntu off my netbook and replaced it with 7. A huge improvement in performance ( :eek !). Am going to dual boot 7 and vista on my desktop at some point once I get a few upgrades.

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Tom

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7 is very very similar to vista in most ways....not sure what you will gain from dual-booting.

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visesh

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Tom

7 is very very similar to vista in most ways....not sure what you will gain from dual-booting.

Dual booting is just for the interim. I'm hopefully getting a new S/HDD anyway, and will wipe Vista once I'm satisfied with 7. In my mind, dual booting will just lessen the hassle of backing stuff up, but then again, it's late and I need sleep, so am probably not thinking straight:P

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Tom

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Nah, I had the same thought, hence why I've ended up with two boot drives. Though in my plans it's strictly for the interim until I get the backups properly sorted and am sure I haven't lost any critical files.

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ukdragon37

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Tom

Thanks. I shall give this a go tomorrow...

At least win 7 has been marginally less of a pain than XP was...I remmeber installing that that I ended up having to get a compsci friend to make a disk of drivers etc for me after scratching my head for a few days.

When this situation happend to me I just reinstalled Win7 as the last step. The "fixboot" + "fixmbr" suggestion is purely theoretical (it should work in my reasoning...) but you can try it if you don't want to go through the hassle of reinstalling.

Windows XP's original installation disc did have the drivers for some of the more popular/new HDD controllers missing, which meant you are in a Catch-22 situation. You have to have XP to go on the internet to download the drivers but you can't install XP unless you have the drivers already. :mad:

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smilepea

I fail at finding resources online :frown:

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Stratocaster

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Tonight was awesome! Halloween formal followed by college ent, and then random banter back in the halls. Free sponge cake! The Ace Ventura costume went down quite well too. :smile:

Now, I was going to go into town tomorrow morning before my ultimate game, but I'm thinking lie in and brunch now.

Anyone going to see Caucasian Chalk Circle at the ADC?

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smilepea

Looks like a trip to the education faculty library tomorrow :sad:

oh and I think I might have cracked a rib or something similar :s-smilie:

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ukebert

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Catsmeat

I am intrigued ...

It was actually in Konya city in Konya province.

I've just realized how dispiriting it is when you have been reading a text while making notes, for some hours, only to realize that all of your notes consist of truisms that you knew already.

Ah right. I really need to properly explore Turkey at some point.

See below:

Tom

Are there any recordings of the ceilidh stuff you do btw Ukebert? I'm rather curious, having missed out on hearing any of it while I was there...

Sadly not, although there may be some at some point. When there is I shall definitely post it on here!

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smilepea

I don't want to go to the education faculty in this :frown:

And now the ******* newton catalogue is down!

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alex_hk90

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Tom

So were they good?

Yes they were. :smile:

I might have another one now for breakfast. :yes:

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Blaah Blaah

Skipping another lecture because I don't want to go out in the rain :biggrin:

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Catsmeat

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ukebert

See below:

These make my morning, groggy as it is, a slightly better experience.

At first I thought the top image was a warning against stealing artefacts. This is quite a severe crime in Turkey, more so than anywhere else I can think of.