<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>ditto on Win7. Vista was a joke.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Mohen</span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Tony Scharf <noisetheorem@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Music-bar <music-bar@lists.music-bar.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, May 9, 2011 8:10 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: Vista? Hello or goodbye?<br></font><br>
Personally, I'd nuke Vista and get Win7 if you can. Seriously. Win 7<br>is an OS that Microsoft really got right. I actually *enjoy* working<br>with it.<br><br>Tony<br><br>On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Dave S <<a ymailto="mailto:sly@mu-sly.co.uk" href="mailto:sly@mu-sly.co.uk">sly@mu-sly.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>> Hey Bar,<br>><br>> So I got my brand-new-second-hand Lenovo T61 - seems like a great<br>> machine so far.<br>><br>> This one came fully tricked out (4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, webcam etc.) but<br>> has Win Vista Business 32bit installed.<br>><br>> I've been playing with it a bit, and to be honest, I don't actually<br>> hate the user experience so far. But there are a few small annoyances<br>> which I'm trying to figure out a solution to.<br>><br>> Essentially, I want to repartition the hard drive so I can dual boot<br>> with Linux Mint Debian Edition. I've managed this OK-ish
so far, in<br>> that using various tools and by turning lots of things like Hibernate<br>> and Restore Points off, I've been able to squish the Vista partition<br>> down to "only" 330GB - despite the fact that only 20GB of it is<br>> actually containing any data.<br>><br>> This isn't really good enough for me! I always keep my system and my<br>> data files separate, and with this much hard drive space partitioned<br>> (seemingly irrevocably) to Vista because of unmovable system files<br>> like (the empty) $Badclus which is sitting there bang in the middle of<br>> the drive like a stupid unmovable blob, I'm finding that I'm seriously<br>> considering wiping Vista off here and putting XP Pro on instead for<br>> music making, if only so I can set up a sane (safer) hard drive<br>> partition scheme.<br>><br>> (Incidentally, I was unable to find out a clear answer on this: Does<br>> the presence of an empty
$Badclus file give any cause for concern? Or<br>> is it on every Vista partition, regardless of whether there are any<br>> bad clusters?)<br>><br>> So, the question is: at this point in 2011, have I got anything to<br>> lose from downgrading to XP? Especially considering that music making<br>> is just about the only thing I use Windows for, and that XP handles my<br>> needs just fine?<br>><br>> I don't have any Vista re-install DVD, and I'm not quite sure if I can<br>> make the Lenovo recovery disks either (haven't yet found where to do<br>> this from despite checking various online tutorials). I'm unlikely to<br>> shell out for Win 7, so if I do get rid of Vista, it may well be<br>> fairly final.<br>><br>> It's just that XP to me is a far more known quantity (with partitions<br>> that I can resize in GParted for a start!), and still does everything<br>> I need from Windows land as far as I can
tell.<br>><br>> So, Vista: nuke it or keep it?<br>><br>> Thanks for your thoughts!<br>><br>> ~Dave<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> music-bar mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:music-bar@lists.music-bar.org" href="mailto:music-bar@lists.music-bar.org">music-bar@lists.music-bar.org</a><br>> http://lists.music-bar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/music-bar<br>><br><br><br><br>-- <br>---------------------------------------------------------------------<br>NoiseTheorem:<br>Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NoiseTheorem<br>myspace:http://www.myspace.com/noisetheorem<br>soundcloud:http://soundcloud.com/noisetheorem<br>_______________________________________________<br>music-bar mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:music-bar@lists.music-bar.org" href="mailto:music-bar@lists.music-bar.org">music-bar@lists.music-bar.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.music-bar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/music-bar"
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