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Just ranting about my latest Win 7 install
smalltownguy:
Crap, my screen just blanked. Laptop's still running, though. Hopefully it's just Win7 slooooooowly installling universal graphics drivers.
smalltownguy:
Heh, after literally TWELVE minutes of a totally black screen (but still ON and chugging away), the OS finally finished installing the graphics drivers and rebooted the machine.
;D
Now let's see if I can actually get all of the devices on this old laptop responding correctly. I doubt there was Vista / Win7 driver support for some of this stuff, but we'll see.
Intel Celeron Mobile 1.4, 512K RAM, and a flaky 40GB hard drive. Guess you can load Win7 on just about anything. There no possible way I could have gotten Vista on this thing.
drventure:
I've been pretty happy so far with win7. It even more or less located drivers properly for my HPg85, when, with Vista, I spent days getting that printer to work right.
Have you ever used SPinrite? If you've got a flaky drive, spinrite can often bring it back from the brink.
newmanfamilyvlogs:
+1 on Spinrite. It's a wonderful tool..
http://www.grc.com/cs/prepurch.htm
However it has been my experience with it (and probably around 100 drives I've used it on) that it can be a little rough on a drive that truly wants to die. Eventually the motors/servos in a harddrive WILL fail. It cannot physically repair the drive, but it can get you a little more life out of it.
drventure:
Yeah, but that's kinda the point. I mean, if a drive is +that+ close and spinrite puts it over the edge, I certainly wouldn't have wanted to go through the hassle of completely setting it up only for it to die a few months down the line.
You know, if it's just a 40gb and it's obviously giving trouble, it'd probably make more sense to just replace it with a much bigger drive for 50$ that to bother with spinrite on it, though.
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