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Re: Win7 installation is messing up my other Windows.
Fetched: April 23rd, 2009, 9:09am CEST

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Author: PhenomAres
Forum: Windows 7
Date: 2009-04-22

well maybe u could explain your funny behavior lol. If your windows vista (SP1) has a pirated key or has the royalty hack program installed, it will do that. evidently windows 7 does indeed detect the other operating systems that are on the same hard drive. just because the partitions have drive letters it doesnt mean that it makes the HD operate as 2 separate 'entities' aka 2 physical hard drives. this behavior goes way back to the first boot loaders. I read somewhere that windows 7 can do more than just detect other installed OS's, it can use a VHD (virtual hard drive) image natively.
but vista is self is just plain awful, no matter how many service packs MS makes for it, it will never be as fast as XP or 7. not to mention its a resource hog, in my CIT class at the tech center we just got a new hp touchscreen pc in a few weeks ago, that has vista on it. it uses about 1.6gb ram when nothing at all is running... i think that is proof of what people have been saying for years now about vista. my windows 7 64 bit only uses 650-800mb after boot and thats with 4gb ram. when i have many programs and windows running like right now its using 1.5gb ram.
people should come to realize that windows 7 is not vista, its not xp, 2000, 9x/ME, or 3.1 and vice-versa. thats saying that its basically unique unto itself. it also hasnt even been finalized yet that I know of....
so yea there u go, vista is the problem. if u actually bought the vista license, I would take it back and get your money back, and run windows 7 for free. if u cant take it back, well i feel sorry for u then...... lol