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| Thread ID: 137914 | 2014-09-07 07:32:00 | WinXP and 7 on the same HDD? | Vicx (11114) | Press F1 |
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| 1383413 | 2014-09-08 22:04:00 | How common are infections though? I've never really had anything serious in years and most of the time it was my own fault for installing dodgy software. Shouldn't it be fine if I have enough AV software? NOD32 seems to catch everything. No AV will ever catch everything. But yep, most infections are from user stupidity, Ive seen plenty on 100% updated PC's get infected. There are people out there still running Win2000, win95 & win98. Are they getting infected because Win is so old :NO So..use XP if you must, but install Firefox or Chrome & dont use IE. And make sure you install the latest java,flash & acrobat reader patches. |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1383414 | 2014-11-06 05:43:00 | Finally got round to upgrading my RAM (4gb) and partitioning my HDD for a separate Win7 install. However now when I try to install W7 off USB it just hangs in the setup screen, no window pops up. I've installed W7 off this same USB before on another HDD as a test run, but it's not doing anything now. I used EASEUS partition magic to create a 250GB NTFS partition which is still empty.. is there something I need to do to get W7 installation to read it properly? I don't know what could be causing it to hang, still responds but it doesn't do anything. Or could it be the new RAM? That's the only thing that's changed. It's this screen here, minus the window, I just get the background and nothing else. 6016 |
Vicx (11114) | ||
| 1383415 | 2014-11-06 06:16:00 | Could be the RAM, remove it and try again on the original. Unless your XP is a X64 it wont see all the RAM anyway, it will only see 3GB. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1383416 | 2014-11-07 08:45:00 | I tried again and left it for 5 mins, eventually it started, didn't show any activity lights on the PC or USB so I don't know what it was doing. The RAM isn't a problem, 3gb in XP and 4gb in Win7. One last question, is there a way to select XP as the default OS? I looked in msconfig/boot.ini but it's already the default even though it isn't. |
Vicx (11114) | ||
| 1383417 | 2014-11-07 08:52:00 | Only XP uses boot.ini, Windows 7 uses a newer boot loader called BCD or something. The easiest way to edit this is with EasyBCD. | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1383418 | 2014-11-10 06:22:00 | I looked into EasyBCD but it costs $30usd just to change the default OS, ridiculous. Fortunately the solution was much easier than I expected: www.howtogeek.com | Vicx (11114) | ||
| 1383419 | 2014-11-10 07:07:00 | You didn't look very hard, sure they try and direct you to the paid version but who doesn't these days. neosmart.net Scroll down to the "Select the best solution for your needs" section, the one on the left is free. It just does what you did though, just a little easier. Also has some useful tools. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1383420 | 2014-11-10 09:25:00 | you're right I didn't notice the free version, but it was seriously just a matter of opening properties, even easier than installing a program to do it. | Vicx (11114) | ||
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