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    Anyone running Win7 Beta on their Studio?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by purplegreendave, Jan 9, 2009.

  1. purplegreendave

    purplegreendave Has a notebook.

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    How's it treating you?
     
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    venkateshkumar99 Notebook Guru

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    I was not able to download the public beta as the MS servers are taking a huge beating today.

    If anyone has any direct MS download link (FTP/HTTP) or any mirror, please post it here.
     
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    MaskedMagi Notebook Guru

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    How easy would it be to duel boot my current version of Vista and the Win 7 beta withouth losing all of my files e.t.c.

    Also if that is possible, could I access the same files from both OSs.
     
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  4. Jason Novak

    Jason Novak Notebook Consultant

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    Check out this thread for direct links:

    http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?t=1116187

    I've been running it for about a week without any real issues. There is one driver missing (part of the intel chipset, haven't really looking into it). There was a problem installing the chipset drivers, it said "unsupported OS", running it in Vista compatibility mode let it install but it apparently still has a problem with one driver.
     
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