How to install Windows 7?

[CheatingSoi]

The RC was what I had. How was it "bad"? Wasnt it basically the final product?

Also, about my previous Win7 Problems. When I had the RC, I could not get my, brightness Drivers (laptop), external VGA driver or my firefire driver to work. I searched and searched, I installed Windows Vista drivers and what I could find of Windows 7 drivers. Nothign helped. So when I went back to Vista, I had absultyl no drivers so I had to install EVERYTHING. It took a while but now its back up and running. I feel like I have more experience finding the right drivers now and someone told me everything should works on Windows 7 that does on Vista but is it possible that some drivers just dont work on 7? Changing my brightness, VGA and firewire are all really importnt to me and I dont want to install Windows 7 just find out it doesnt work again. But it has to work sometime doesnt it? I mean, Toshiba is continuiting to make Satellites (My series of laptop) so wouldnt they have to make drivers that are compatible?

 

[Deleted member 35947]

As no one else has mentioned this, thought I would. You don't need to burn windows 7 to dvd to do a clean install. If you just have the files you can actually copy them to a usb stick and boot windows that way, then install to hard disk. It'll work provided you have formatted your usb stick correctly.

 

[DigitalSquirrel]

The RC was what I had. How was it "bad"? Wasnt it basically the final product?

Also, about my previous Win7 Problems. When I had the RC, I could not get my, brightness Drivers (laptop), external VGA driver or my firefire driver to work. I searched and searched, I installed Windows Vista drivers and what I could find of Windows 7 drivers. Nothign helped. So when I went back to Vista, I had absultyl no drivers so I had to install EVERYTHING. It took a while but now its back up and running. I feel like I have more experience finding the right drivers now and someone told me everything should works on Windows 7 that does on Vista but is it possible that some drivers just dont work on 7? Changing my brightness, VGA and firewire are all really importnt to me and I dont want to install Windows 7 just find out it doesnt work again. But it has to work sometime doesnt it? I mean, Toshiba is continuiting to make Satellites (My series of laptop) so wouldnt they have to make drivers that are compatible?

IMO, Windows 7 sucks as bad as vista, hopefully when it is fully released they'll make it not suck. Tired of new OS though, cause now all these software developers have to make their shit for the new OS and you gotta hope they do. Windows XP was god, perfect OS all around. I went from XP to Vista and back like, 3 times, and from Vista to Win 7 and back twice. I'm stickin with Vista for now cause of the DX10 and the better 64bit support. Not happy though, so many problems.

 

[Joe88]

The RC was what I had. How was it "bad"? Wasnt it basically the final product?

RC is before RTM
its for public testing


basically RTM is pretty much the final ver that will arrive on store shelves, retail ver

 

[CheatingSoi]

This is tearing me apart. I cannot stand having anything obsolete, whether it be a game console or something software based. I really want to show off and bes like, yeah, I have windows 7, but I just feel like Vista suits me (and my laptop) better.

 

[Technik]

Is it possible that you can install an Os to an external hard drive? If so how?

 

[DarkLG]

If I use the upgrade one I will keep all my file correct?And would I have to burn it to a disc/usb stick to install it???

 

[CheatingSoi]

Damn, I went ahead and installed it, and of course, I can't get my brightness drivers to work at all. Basically everything in the Toshiba added value package. I cant turn off my illuminated buttons and stuff, I cant use my VGA port because that's part of it. I hate this. It's basically just one driver package that doesn't work and its got some of the most important things to me. I guess its back to Vista then.

 

[Technik]

Is it possible that you can install an Os to an external hard drive? If so how?

Anybody know how?

 

[Deleted-119707]

im just curious on windows 7. i own the dell inspiron 15 and IS legible for free upgrade to windows 7. i currently have vista premium x64.
will photoshop cs3, adobe flash pro cs4 work?
and is it any better than vista?
will upgrading all my drivers work if i have to? or is it limited?
thanks.

 

[raulpica]

The RC was what I had. How was it "bad"? Wasnt it basically the final product?

Also, about my previous Win7 Problems. When I had the RC, I could not get my, brightness Drivers (laptop), external VGA driver or my firefire driver to work. I searched and searched, I installed Windows Vista drivers and what I could find of Windows 7 drivers. Nothign helped. So when I went back to Vista, I had absultyl no drivers so I had to install EVERYTHING. It took a while but now its back up and running. I feel like I have more experience finding the right drivers now and someone told me everything should works on Windows 7 that does on Vista but is it possible that some drivers just dont work on 7? Changing my brightness, VGA and firewire are all really importnt to me and I dont want to install Windows 7 just find out it doesnt work again. But it has to work sometime doesnt it? I mean, Toshiba is continuiting to make Satellites (My series of laptop) so wouldnt they have to make drivers that are compatible?

IMO, Windows 7 sucks as bad as vista, hopefully when it is fully released they'll make it not suck. Tired of new OS though, cause now all these software developers have to make their shit for the new OS and you gotta hope they do. Windows XP was god, perfect OS all around. I went from XP to Vista and back like, 3 times, and from Vista to Win 7 and back twice. I'm stickin with Vista for now cause of the DX10 and the better 64bit support. Not happy though, so many problems.

Are you serious? Actually Win7 is the first decent thing I see from Microsoft in years. Sadly the RAM usage grew a little from RC1 to RTM. Oh well.

Is it possible that you can install an Os to an external hard drive? If so how?

Anybody know how?

You mostly can't. It only installs on eSATA drives. On USB drives it'll just give you an error saying you can't install it on USB drives. Sorry.

QUOTE(nicky041192 @ Aug 22 2009, 11:15 PM)

im just curious on windows 7. i own the dell inspiron 15 and IS legible for free upgrade to windows 7. i currently have vista premium x64.
will photoshop cs3, adobe flash pro cs4 work?
and is it any better than vista?
will upgrading all my drivers work if i have to? or is it limited?
thanks.

1) Haven't tried Flash, but I guess it'd.
2) Yeah.
3) Nope, but it should be compatible with Vista drivers, and by the way, it already comes with a good bunch of them in it.

 

[Golfman560]

Damn, I went ahead and installed it, and of course, I can't get my brightness drivers to work at all. Basically everything in the Toshiba added value package. I cant turn off my illuminated buttons and stuff, I cant use my VGA port because that's part of it. I hate this. It's basically just one driver package that doesn't work and its got some of the most important things to me. I guess its back to Vista then.

If I remember correctly Toshiba re-released that driver "package" as a beta but it kept giving users BSODs. Hopefully they'll fix it soon.

 

[GamerzInc]

All my adobe products work on windows 7. I haven't had any problems with drivers or anything. The only problem I have had is with quicktime and quicktimetrailers website. It won't open a new player to play HD content. I can live with that though.

 

[Golfman560]

IMO, Windows 7 sucks as bad as vista, hopefully when it is fully released they'll make it not suck. Tired of new OS though, cause now all these software developers have to make their shit for the new OS and you gotta hope they do. Windows XP was god, perfect OS all around. I went from XP to Vista and back like, 3 times, and from Vista to Win 7 and back twice. I'm stickin with Vista for now cause of the DX10 and the better 64bit support. Not happy though, so many problems.

Are you serious? Actually Win7 is the first decent thing I see from Microsoft in years. Sadly the RAM usage grew a little from RC1 to RTM. Oh well.

Heh Raul I was going to rip on that guy so bad but when I finally typed it out it had soo many swears it wasn't funny. But yeah Win7 is probably the best thing since XP SP1 came out. (Note that I said Xp SP1 not XP, it had it's shit streak like Vista did, but it only took one SP to fix, not two).

And for whoever said they don't like how it suits them and that Vista felt better has probably never used Win7, because it feels exactly the same once you tweak the settings.

And I have yet to hit any compatability problems aside from antivirus programs (Bitdefender 2009 gave me some issues, NOD worked for until I turned the firewall on (started hogging 100% CPU), and I don't want to try Norton so I'm using Avast)

 

[raulpica]

IMO, Windows 7 sucks as bad as vista, hopefully when it is fully released they'll make it not suck. Tired of new OS though, cause now all these software developers have to make their shit for the new OS and you gotta hope they do. Windows XP was god, perfect OS all around. I went from XP to Vista and back like, 3 times, and from Vista to Win 7 and back twice. I'm stickin with Vista for now cause of the DX10 and the better 64bit support. Not happy though, so many problems.

Are you serious? Actually Win7 is the first decent thing I see from Microsoft in years. Sadly the RAM usage grew a little from RC1 to RTM. Oh well.

Heh Raul I was going to rip on that guy so bad but when I finally typed it out it had soo many swears it wasn't funny. But yeah Win7 is probably the best thing since XP SP1 came out. (Note that I said Xp SP1 not XP, it had it's shit streak like Vista did, but it only took one SP to fix, not two).

And for whoever said they don't like how it suits them and that Vista felt better has probably never used Win7, because it feels exactly the same once you tweak the settings.

Actually I like Win7 graphically even more than Vista. Win7 is a lot "cleaner" on the eye. The only thing that needs a bit of adapting is the taskbar, but after a while I started loving the new taskbar.
It sums up things quite nicely and it's a lot less cluttered. When more programs will start supporting its special features (like IE fills its icon gradually with green based on a download's percentage) it'll be even better

Windows 7: It's Vista without the Fail

 

[Ferrariman]

XP > Launch Vista
XP > Vista 2 months after launch
Vista now> XP
Windows 7 > Vista > XP.

 

[Technik]

What are eSATA drivers?

 

[raulpica]

What are eSATA drivers?

LOL typo. I meant eSATA drives. It's another connector, alternative to USB 2.0, just for external HDs. It's pretty rare, and only a bunch of motherboards (mainly high-end ones) support it to this day.

 

[Technik]

Oh.

Time to install windows 7 on my compy

 

[Mangofett]

I find no big difference between W7 and Vista. Don't think it merits a new retail release. Should've been Vista SP3.