Yes, that may also be an issue.  To ensure your (SATA) primary OS drive is not in focus confict with the (IDE) secondary OS drive, you may have to change jumper settings on the drives themselves... make the SATA the master and the IDE a slave. To do this you will need to open up your tower/box and refer the the manufacturer instructions.  Most drive these days have that info on the top, if not you can find it at their website.

This is already the case. Went through that when I bought the rig.

Note to those whe want the QuickLaunch toolbar back: You can still do it . Windows 7 does allow you to create new toolbars!

What this basically means is that if you really wanted to, you can indeed make it act just like previous versions of Windows. You'll have to create a new toolbar, unlock the task bar, move it, change the settings to not show the text/title if you desire, lock the taskbar again, and if you so desire unpin the existing items and tell it to use small icons.

It's a bit of a pain, but it's possible .

That's good news, Jim, I'm pleased that you got Win 7 up and running... enjoy.

I'm really excited about windows 7 now for some reason.  Everything I hear about it is positive.   Surely it keeps the good aspects of vista (I'm a network tech support agent, and vista is so much easier to troubleshoot than XP)

The things I'm hearing of Windows 7 leaves me.. baffled. Maybe it's just some big bubble of happy people running around with rosecolored glasses in here, but from what I'm hearing, this may be the first Windows I'll install within the first year of it's release.

As I've come to understand it, it's just in beta at the moment (so Micro$oft still have time to screw up), but when is Windows 7 set for release?

Given that the beta is due to expire on August 1st, it's likely to be released around then.

starkers, you really should downgrade to XP mate, you know you want to

(blink blink)

Please tell me that you don't work in IT

Cliff - admin - at another site reports losing

his Vista partition when he installed 7 - 

anyone else lose Vista in the process ????  

.... Don't run BETA software (specially not an OS) if you're not ready to lose every bit of information on *any* connected harddrive...

Actually you should act as if you could lose everything at all times, even when running release software. But the risk of that happening is rather much smaller.

It does, because it's based on Vista. The rumors that Microsoft was going back to XP's code turned out to be completely false.

So far everybody is guessing 2009, but Microsoft officially has their lips sealed.

PDJ good to see you finaly got there mate, I hope you enjoy it as much as the rest of us....

Nope... learning as I go and passed on info that resolved issues for me.

Best way to learn....from doing, not from reading.