Installing Windows 7

custardy

Lil306 wrote: »

Join, the club, I'm 26 recently unemployed

VMWare rules, it's a perfect Sandbox environment for testing. If you have files you suspect are dodgy just run them in the VMBox , if it breaks it your PC is still intact and secured. I've got 3 VMs atm Windws7, Centos and Windows XP pro. Good for knowledge training I need more ram however, the Windows 7 soaks it up like a !!!!!

less that vista though

Lil306

custardy wrote: »

less that vista though

True, it's mainly because I've specified 1GB Ram max for Windows 7, I don't wanna delve into swap files and rubbish

I'll whack in another 14 Gig at some stage but not atm, I hate the way the interface looks in Windows 7

custardy

im running 2 gig and whilst it can be a little slow on opening files it runs alriught
another couple of gigs would be good though

totalsolutions

>(saving for MOT)
Look around Kwik Fit do a cheap online booking MOT about £35.

Windows 7 Does a clean install.
I think it renames Windows to Windows.old.
Yes you might loose all your data.

hemophobic

The weird thing is that I am only left with 24 gb if files and I'm transfering them over now which is taking hours lol but oh well

RobertoMoir

hemophobic wrote: »

Is it essential to backup? because I have over 300GB of files and I don't have another hard drive..

It's always essential to backup stuff you don't want to lose, regardless of what operating system you're running and whether or not you're upgrading it. The risk of something going wrong is higher during an upgrade, obviously, but it's always present.