New Harddrives May Force Windows XP Upgrades

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I recommend the new drive + Windows 7 option. I used XP on several computers and skipped Vista myself (though I did use it some on other computers). All you XP users, Win7 is no Vista! IMO, it combines the usability, eye candy, and security of Vista with the speed, un-annoyingness, and reliability of XP. Plus, on one of my PC's, Win7 was actually faster than XP! In the end, I highly recommend XP users making the switch to Win7. I have and don't regret it.
 
It is Vista its just Service Pack 2. I will admit that it is better. However, to say it is no Vista is inaccurate. Look under the hood its basically Vista that has had a tuneup. This is what Vista should have looked like when it was released
 
If it's only 10% slower, than many people won't switch. Now if, let's say, the hard drives ran at 40+% slower, then perhaps people would switch. Considering that Windows 7 forced people to upgrade to an nVidian 7XXX+ or ATI 4XXX+, it makes sense that people will start to realize that their software is out-of-date.
 
completely agree with Bolbi, Win 7 uses the best of both Win XP & Win Vista, wilh no draw-backs. I've not had one issue yet with Win 7 and i have tested since Beta.
 
late 2011,, that a long ways off really.. and you will still be able to get old school drives for a while I bet.. XP isn't dead yet by a long shot. (And Windows 7 so far isn't all that bad either and out to have the few bugs there are so far wrung out by the end of next year.)

The big news here is bigger faster drives
 
[citation][nom]jonpaul37[/nom]I've not had one issue yet with Win 7 and i have tested since Beta.[/citation]
Same here.. Using vista since the Beta (leaked one - before the official release) and all is good.. Can't complain at all.

I've also skipped Vista on my desktop (but still uses it on my notebook - bundled)..
 
[citation][nom]shadow187[/nom]Considering that Windows 7 forced people to upgrade to an nVidian 7XXX+ or ATI 4XXX+, it makes sense that people will start to realize that their software is out-of-date.[/citation]

What are you talking about? No it didn't...besides, those two GPU series aren't even in the same class.
 
Microsoft have been selling XP up until the launch of Windows7, they should support their customers with an upgrade to enable the full use of these hard drives. If not people should buy the drive and install an alternative OS.
 
Even bigger problem, the OSs including 7 file system need to be redesigned. Have u ever had an disk issue with just 1 block of 512k byte data. But kills the file table, hundreds of file get corrupted or truncated.

With 4k block size, it will destroy any chance of minimal corruption to the file system.
 
Well, when they can't play games on XP is when you'll see a nice chunk go to 7.

I recall seeing the same trend when so many jumped the 98 ship.
 
Well I'm personally new to Linux I recently swtiched when my vista box crashed. Ive heard of running windows programs in an emulation mode. Ive never doen it but this possibly may solve your problem. But please dont shoot me if I'm wrong lol.
 
[citation][nom]tomtompiper[/nom]Microsoft have been selling XP up until the launch of Windows7, they should support their customers with an upgrade to enable the full use of these hard drives. If not people should buy the drive and install an alternative OS.[/citation]

XP is 9 years old and has now been deemed a "legacy" OS by Microsoft. Technology is nowhere near what it was 9 years ago. How long do you want a manufacturer to keep making upgrades (not bug patches, mind you)? They have to concentrate on the next level of technology and no matter how much XP is in use, how stable it is, etc., it is not, and does not have the capacity to be the "next level of technology". We'll be going through all this again in another 7-9 years... when XP won't even be a gleam in your eye...

so get off your duff and quit trying to hold others back that are embracing new technology for all of the goodness that it provides.

BTW, doesn't this article SUGGEST that a user either deal with the slower access/write speeds or install Windows 7?.... isn't Windows 7 (as you put it) an "alternative OS"?

 
By the time this actually has any affect on users we'll be running Windows 8, 9 or 10. Even if XP couldn't use the new drives users will still have access to plenty of older drives that will be running far longer than the support cycle for the OS. So IMO this isn't an issue at all!
 
If you align your partitions correctly, you should not have any problems using the new drives with XP.
 
[citation][nom]Cryogenic[/nom]Last I checked Windows XP can read and write 4k block just fine (actually 4K block size is the default for NTFS for drives above 2GB) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314878[/citation]
I seem to recall that you could change the block sizes with partition magic. In fact I did so to optimize the reading of large audio files I deal with in XP. I seem to remember doing so even before xp. Memory is not what it use to be but, I am pretty certain of this. I can't remember which sizes I used but I know I changed it to a larger size.
 
[citation][nom]Tekkie9[/nom]If you align your partitions correctly, you should not have any problems using the new drives with XP.[/citation]

True.

And some 4K sector drives have a jumper that aligns XP at the total cost of 1 sector wasted to get the correct boundary alignment. This article is not good -- it just promotes fear in XP users who do not follow disk technology.
 
[citation][nom]Cryogenic[/nom]Last I checked Windows XP can read and write 4k block just fine (actually 4K block size is the default for NTFS for drives above 2GB) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314878[/citation]

Problem is that XP writes 4K as eight 512 byte sectors and does not start with a multiple of 8 for the first sector. So the drive reads a full 4K then updates the part of the 4K that corresponds to the sector numbers XP sent. Then finally does the write. A lot of overhead.
 
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