windows 7

[erkishhorde]

No BSoD's or other failures that I've been made aware of. Both machines are clean installs on fresh drives.

I'm hearing that a lot. 7 doesn't like to play well with leftovers and prefers to start from scratch.

[derby]

I'm hearing that a lot. 7 doesn't like to play well with leftovers and prefers to start from scratch.

most operating systems are that way.

there's more than one reason to start fresh.

by default, xp uses a 32k partition offset which can cause  "significant" drive performance issues*. the old "tweak" used to be creating the partition manually with a 64k offset prior to installation.

vista/7/2008 use a 1024k offset and are "perfectly" aligned by default

*due to read/writes that traverse a sector boundary resulting in a double-read or double-write (one per sector).

[ducpainter]

[quote author=derby[pedia] link=topic=33445.msg583008#msg583008 date=1262562731]
most operating systems are that way.

there's more than one reason to start fresh.

by default, xp uses a 32k partition offset which can cause  "significant" drive performance issues*. the old "tweak" used to be creating the partition manually with a 64k offset prior to installation.

vista/7/2008 use a 1024k offset and are "perfectly" aligned by default

*due to read/writes that traverse a sector boundary resulting in a double-read or double-write (one per sector).
[/quote]
I'm sure you can fix the faulty bbc code in my post too.

Damnit...

what don't you know?