Changed my mind.

As many of you know my dad is a teacher. OK, many may be stretching it a little, since I think only my wife reads this (and then only after much whining and crying by me.) Any way dad = teacher. He works for a college in Washington state and as such has access to academic versions of software. I have been running Windows 7 on my machine since before it was released as beta and now I actually own a version of Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit. Yay! academic discount.

I actually like the final version of 7. very responsive and loads fast on my rapidly aging P4 platform. (see prior post) I had to dump Vista earlier last year due to the fact that when i tried to sync my Blackberry or Zodiac or headset or something with my bluetooth radio the system mysteriously and permanently de-activated it's self. No background, limited Internet coverage, much suckage.

So back to XP for me.

Everything is happy in XP land but there was a stirring deep within, a certain ..... "I'm bored let's see if we can multi boot this bad boy."

Wow, that was remarkably specific.

Now i have a copy of partition magic, i just can't find the key, and since we have moved i have kind of given up on ever seeing a lot of things for the foreseeable future. so off to google i go. and to my joy i find:

Easeus Partition Master Home Edition

maybe I'm overstating the importance of this, but i was able to split my main drive into two partitions and

1) not completely destroy my Windows XP setup

-and-

2) make enough room for Win7.

I had a Beta version of 7, or maybe it was a release candidate but anyway I installed it and everything is running OK. for the most part i was just running on XP since i was working and was not sure if the software was win7 compatible.

anyway back to the academic software since i had a final release hologram imprinted genuine happy version i installed it on top of the pre-release software. all happy.The only problem i have right now is the Sound Blaster 5.1 Platinum keeps throwing an error since it is not supported in anything higher than XP and I'm too lazy right now to open my case to pull out the card. I just ordered a new DVD burner so i guess I'll fix it when that arrives.

I actually have pretty much migrated to Win7 permanently but i had something on my XP partition that i needed, so booting to XP it took forever to run. I think I'll stick to Win7. but will keep my XP installed at least until i have to reinstall when i upgrade my motherboard. I'm thinking I'll go with an AMD platform this time.