My experience with Windows 7.....

LeeSouthEast

Windows 7 takes a bit of getting used to, but I've been using it exclusively on my netbook now for about a month, and I have to say, it's considerably better than Vista.

I'm not sure you can beat the speed of XP, though. But then again, XP is 10 year old technology now so it's hardly surprising it flies on even vaguely modern hardware. With a little bit of tweaking (and killing aero which I hate anyway), W7 rocks.

enigma52

amsdos was great if my memory serves me well. Think that was mid 70's

gaming_guy

anewhope wrote: »

It's not even something that is a fault caused by the operating system as it ocurred during the initial boot sequence prior to any operating files being loaded.

I hope you don't work in testing

I had pretty much just finished installing 7, then it loaded the profile/desktop with the CD drive producing a pop up for the Win7 DVD to which i clicked cancel and presumably lost all access to the drive as i went to install sound drivers from another CD & nothing happened when i inserted the CD which i thought was strange so i rebooted and the BIOS didn't detect any drives until i turned the machine off & on again.

Baldur

enigma52 wrote: »

amsdos was great if my memory serves me well. Think that was mid 70's

Presume you mean MS-DOS (Microsoft DOS)? There were lots of similar disk operating systems in that time period, IBM DOS, DR DOS, etc., etc.

busenbust

Anyone recall DIS-DOS :rotfl:

[Deleted User]

gaming_guy wrote: »

I had pretty much just finished installing 7, then it loaded the profile/desktop with the CD drive producing a pop up for the Win7 DVD to which i clicked cancel and presumably lost all access to the drive as i went to install sound drivers from another CD & nothing happened when i inserted the CD which i thought was strange so i rebooted and the BIOS didn't detect any drives until i turned the machine off & on again.

In my opinion the two events are nothing more than coincidental. Whatever you did in Windows would be unable to cause an error during POST, that's just not how bootstrapping operates and why you don't get bluscreen error messags until way after those steps have completed..

enigma52

Baldur wrote: »

Presume you mean MS-DOS (Microsoft DOS)? There were lots of similar disk operating systems in that time period, IBM DOS, DR DOS, etc., etc.

no I mean Amsdos, which stands for AMStrad Disk Operating System

Richie-from-the-Boro

"" i thought was strange so i rebooted and the BIOS didn't detect any drives until i turned the machine off & on again ""

You have two operating systems : - Low Level & High Level - BIOS is Low Level - Win7 is High Level.

You yourself describe your problem as a Low Level issue - it has nothing whatsoever to do with Win7.

In many hundreds of installs of Win7 I have never had a HAL issue that was caused by anything other than the BIOS or flaky physical hardware.

Just as as an aside with the exception of high end sound cards [ god knows why people waste their money on them ] I've never had to install a driver since the very early BETA's, Win7's dBase is more than capable of finding them all !.

patman99

I installed Win 7 Pro on my PC, it is much, much faster than XP was, mind-you XP was 32 bit version, Win 7 is 64Bit version. Now my 64bit dual-core Athlon runs like a dream.

My son is experiancing the same speed increase on his Samsung R20 after replacing Vista with 7 Pro 64 bit.

rmg1

I remember MS-DOS version 3 (I think) running on an old 8086 machine (I'm showing may age now) having a massive 640KB RAM and a huge 32MB HDD. It wouldn't even recognise high-density floppy discs.