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signmeuptoo 
| reply to floydb_1982
Re: My hard drive's fast and big enough for Windows Vista???
At this point floydb no one should be in the market for upgrades in preparation for vista. It continues to be delayed.
Wait until it is released and then base your decisions on the actual performance levels of the final code. Then you can upgrade as you need to at the best price available at the time. |
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Octavean
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-31
New York, NY
| said by asdfdfdf :
At this point floydb no one should be in the market for upgrades in preparation for vista. It continues to be delayed.
Wait until it is released and then base your decisions on the actual performance levels of the final code. Then you can upgrade as you need to at the best price available at the time.
Basically, I agree with this sentiment. However, if floydb_1982 wishes to run a Vista beta build now it is something of a concern now. |
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floydb_1982
join:2004-08-25
Kent, WA | reply to Jerm
Re: SLOW...
The maximum hard drive space my mother can support is 137 GB. I did not know that until I had installed the 200 GB hard drive. I ended up splitting it in to 2 100 GB hard drives. |
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signmeuptoo
Folding and Crunching Not just Breakfast
Premium
join:2001-11-22
LOSTinSpace
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| Floyd: What service pack did she have of Windows? You need to be fairly current to run at the larger size. Nevertheless, partitioning a hard drive is often a good idea, that way if data on one partition gets borked, the other partitions might still retain integrity.
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floydb_1982
join:2004-08-25
Kent, WA
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| I use Windows XP SP2. I have the Western Digital hard drive format software that came with my 200 GB HD. But here's the bad part of having Windows XP SP2 format your HD in to a single drive is that if you ever have to install Windows XP again and when you boot up Windows XP right after the install the HD will go from 200 GB to 137 GB and when that happens any data on the HD is gone and lost forever. So that is why I split my HD to 2 100 GB HD's. |
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signmeuptoo
Folding and Crunching Not just Breakfast
Premium
join:2001-11-22
LOSTinSpace
clubs:
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| floyd, you will find that many, if not most of us, have at least 2 actual hard drives. The reason: One drive serves as the host for the bootup/OSs, the other for files that we want to keep between installs, because you don't have to reformat such a second drive for it to work with a fresh install, at least not until FAT/NTFS is abandoned, that is...
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Chizep
Premium
join:2002-04-07
Concord, NC
| reply to Octavean
Re: My hard drive's fast and big enough for Windows Vista???
Yes, use the effin' advisor to answer all of your questions!!!
said by Octavean :Vista Premium Ready PC OS install HDDs must be 40GB or larger (15 GB free space) as a minimum requirement. Perhaps you should run the “ Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor Beta “ and perhaps do a little research over at the official Vista Home page. No offence intended but the info is just there for the taking,….no need to ask. |
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floydb_1982
join:2004-08-25
Kent, WA |  So tell me what are the system requirement for Windows Vista??? |
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CylonRed
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-06
Bloom County | »www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/g···ble.mspx - same place as the links already provided... |
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novaflare
The Dragon Was Here
Premium
join:2002-01-24
Barberton, OH
| reply to Kilroy
said by Kilroy :said by floydb_1982 :So your saying that 5,400 RPM is just as fast as 7,200 RPM??? It depends on what you're using it for. For short reads and writes that isn't any real difference. Where you'll see the difference is in long reads and writes. After you're booted odds are you won't notice the difference. Most laptop drives are 5,400 RPM. Ive had both in fact still do have both. You can tell the difference any time your computer is making use of the swap file. A large part of windows on my comp for example runs in virt mem aka swap file. But many programs will also make use of the swap even when you have more than enough ram to not use swap file. Then theres the fact that as you can tell many people are in to digital imaging (just need to look at the forum here for digital imaging). 3d art is another place where hd speed will help. DVD encoding ripping cds and mp3 encoding etc.
I suppose if all your doing is web and email chat etc then no you will not notice. But that is only a few % of the population.
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elios
join:2005-11-15
Springfield, MO | reply to Martinus
Martinus
Vista asumes you have only one HDD with one partaion as most lower end PCs have
Vistas adviser and system test stuff is flawed |
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