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STILL haven't built new :\
The more I look at components, the less interest I have in building new.
Old still has plenty of memory, storage and CPU reserve for what I do. Issue is running Win XP. Just got an email stating vendor will no longer support XP after 1Feb for a program I use frequently. If I would buy a new hard drive or small solid state drive,load Win 7 on it, and change current drive C to W or something would I be asking for more huge problems than a tinkerer could solve? Current system has a 2TB hard drive partitioned into C 80GB and E and F evenly split between the remaining space. E stores music and files, F is still empty. Another internal drive I is current drive files are put in. 2 external HDD G and H are full of video. This box works so well, have put this off for well over a year, but now appears I have no choice. Thanks for any ideas you want to share. Mark |
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 11:04:21 -0600, pheasant16
wrote: The more I look at components, the less interest I have in building new. Old still has plenty of memory, storage and CPU reserve for what I do. Issue is running Win XP. Just got an email stating vendor will no longer support XP after 1Feb for a program I use frequently. If I would buy a new hard drive or small solid state drive,load Win 7 on it, and change current drive C to W or something would I be asking for more huge problems than a tinkerer could solve? I don't qualify myself, not especially. I just like running and building computers. Had your problem with that vendor and installed another SSD to be able to run both XP and W7. I figure it was only fair that the vendor really deserved it -- W7 all alone and nothing but them to run on it. I partitioned a relatively small reserve for W7's resources to boot and keep all the rest as deemed most efficient for storage utilization I use. Naturally and mostly XP. Mostly. |
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STILL haven't built new :\
pheasant16 wrote:
The more I look at components, the less interest I have in building new. Old still has plenty of memory, storage and CPU reserve for what I do. Issue is running Win XP. Just got an email stating vendor will no longer support XP after 1Feb for a program I use frequently. Does "not support" really mean to you "unusable"? Does "not support" really mean "they won't install"? Is this for personal or business use? I use 40tude Dialog to post here. It was abandoned back in 2005. I use SamSpade abandoned back in 2002. I use the HxD hex editor that hasn't been updated since April 2009. I would still be using Windows XP but I got an OEM license of Windows 7 for free with the broken computer on which it was installed. Old or unsupported doesn't mean unusable or won't install. If their newer version(s) won't install on Windows XP, do those newer version actually have anything you want AND will use? Or is it just glitter to lure you into buying a newer version? If I would buy a new hard drive or small solid state drive,load Win 7 on it, and change current drive C to W or something would I be asking for more huge problems than a tinkerer could solve? While there are software solutions to multi-boot (not Microsoft's stupid dual boot) to different operating systems installed in different hard disk partitions, you might find it easier to use a hardware solution: install a removable HDD bay and swap HDDs to change to different OSes. Then you don't have to worry about one OS even seeing the other OS and possibly changing drive letters or polluting the other OS's partition. Look for hot-swap caddies or drive bays. Newegg has several of them. If you swap a lot, you'll want to pay a higher price for a quality bay and cage. |
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:25:08 -0500, Flasherly
wrote: Had your problem with that vendor and installed another SSD to be able to run both XP and W7. That wasn't properly phrased to avoid ambiguity. I, as well, use Microsoft Online Services, now a prerequisite to when any prior version of said services connects instrumentally to Microsoft, that services be then so identified and disqualified -regardless of prior fees rendered for contractual services remaining- for unequivocally void and inoperable until the contractee, in further compliance to Microsoft, assume all such responsibility to personally obtain and purchase Microsoft's updates, whereupon a residual of monies contractually tendered will be accountable to renew access from prior services. I should think I may presume to write that, here under the moniker of Flasherly;- last time I tried it, elsewhere, Microsoft (a subsidiary thereof unnamed and operating within international bounds, (sic) another country) blocked my services. I had to jump through hoops to obtain a coded access password to privately contact Microsoft's subsidiary customer support and reinstate services. It was horrible of me, I know;- it viscerally so literal, as if I had no recourse other than to suck Microsoft off. |
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On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 00:52:24 -0600, VanguardLH wrote:
While there are software solutions to multi-boot (not Microsoft's stupid dual boot) to different operating systems installed in different hard disk partitions, you might find it easier to use a hardware solution: install a removable HDD bay and swap HDDs to change to different OSes. Then you don't have to worry about one OS even seeing the other OS and possibly changing drive letters or polluting the other OS's partition. Look for hot-swap caddies or drive bays. Newegg has several of them. If you swap a lot, you'll want to pay a higher price for a quality bay and cage. That's moving the ladder to screw in the lightbulb, concerning all possible OS's available, when I've 4, 5, 6 versions of *nix ready to boot (via a semi-complex, somewhat focused/limited arbitrator) on a 32G flashdrive. Certainly not my first choice for a Windows environment (I'm biased towards Windows), even if I've one of those flashdisk arbitration set points for an ISO of the Windows 7 install;- a coincidently vastly superior install, time wise, over optical media. Given time, and with Windows 10 presently being handed out on street corners for it's favorite flavor of Microsoft's ice-cream topping, there'll perhaps be, sooner or later, a similar W7 "mini-build" to correspond to such as HIREN's mini-XP included with several flashstick boot distributions. Software, really, over the years has all but settled fairly well for stability over a course of pertinent issues involving reinventing the perfect rat trap;- it's the browsers that concern me, with everybody stepping all over everybody else's toes, to eclipse one another with metadata collection, a NSA Centre for routing all WWW traffic, on the forefront of an imperative push to establishing an industrial-grade solution to 'your granddad's computer,' eclipsed by some sort of phone or handheld subscription device. No doubt, there's certain latent marketing incentives for reselling old software, as it were, like television reruns, over an effective 60-percentile share already established within the technologically impoverished Third World. |
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