Oh, *windows*.

[warphammer]

Windows 7 wouldn't upgrade. No space, it said. But, I thought, looking at the 150GB free, over half of the disk, what could it need

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[just_the_ash]

Snow Leopard is warm and fuzzy making me very happy!

[warphammer]

Yes, it's nice. And that install went well, on my other computers. :)

[peachtales]

Ah lovely. If you're having that much trouble with it I wonder just how painful it would be for me.

[warphammer]

If you're coming from Vista, it should be okay - it was rather smooth after I fixed this problem. This problem is probably not something that would be a common problem.

From XP... The instructions look painful.

[peachtales]

I read the instrux to transition from xp. Happily, things are going ok with my laptop (aside from the fact that it now likes to overheat when I run things it used to just chomp right through). The desktop, on the other hand, is vista, and it has not been right since a few months after I bought it, no matter what I do. So, I might try the new flavor, once they get the first few kinks worked out.

[mirrdae]

Well, it IS Windows. The first release of any Windows product is going to be rough, though. Sounds like the law of "Wait until SP1" will apply here too. :P

We'll see what happens when my copy arrives.

[warphammer]

I think this problem (partition type set to 27) is an artifact of migrating to this drive with Acronis. Iiiiii bet. But the installer should've seen that this 'system recovery partition' was 270GB in size and was the active boot partition. :P

[mirrdae]

Ehhh, I dunno. The partition ID is really all you can "rely" on, as that 270GB active boot partition could be some Linux distro or who knows what else, strictly speaking. I'm guessing most of those MS programmers aren't paid to get creative and write fancy logic into the setup program. They're just under orders to make it look pretty and go smooth under a strict list of "supported conditions." :/ Did it give you the option to format the partition at least?

[warphammer]

Nope! Not really. GUI Windows partition tools tend to assign most unknown partition types as recovery 'EISA Configuration' partitions, and won't let you touch them at all, not delete or format or resize... Once I reassigned it as type 07, everything went 'Oh! Okay.'

[orv]

It's supposed to have an "XP compatibility" mode, but I think it's only in some premium version.

[warphammer]

Yes, only Professional and above. Annoying, since I think a bunch of Home Premium users would like it. Also needs virtualization extensions, so really only fairly new systems can do it.

[pseudomanitou]

I'll be a Windows/PC user when I can send them an invoice for billable freelance time spent trying to correct their products.