New Harddrives May Force Windows XP Upgrades

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Ain't gonna do a darn thing.
512K formatted HD's are the market now and will be around for quite some time, people will just buy them over the new ones.
Company's are going to make what sells, and people are/will be using 512K formatted HD's for years.

 
[citation][nom]Richeemxx[/nom]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![/citation]

You obviously don't understand Windows naming schemes. 🙁
 
I love my XP 64bit OS.
I am only making a switch to W7 becaue of DX11, but other then that XP is a great OS...always will be. I don't care to have W7, and I know of many business's and people that are fine with XP. W7 is ok, but nothing special.
 
[citation][nom]amstech[/nom]I love my XP 64bit OS. I am only making a switch to W7 becaue of DX11, but other then that XP is a great OS...always will be. I don't care to have W7, and I know of many business's and people that are fine with XP. W7 is ok, but nothing special.[/citation]

Windows 98 SE was great... Still its dead.

[citation][nom]amstech[/nom]I love my XP 64bit OS. I am only making a switch to W7 becaue of DX11, but other then that XP is a great OS...always will be. I don't care to have W7, and I know of many business's and people that are fine with XP. W7 is ok, but nothing special.[/citation]

You gotta love 64-bit emulation...
 
[citation][nom]shadow187[/nom]Those are the minimum requirements for Windows 7, IIRC.[/citation]

True but I'm running Windows 7 Pro with Aero on my Dell Mini 9 with pathetic Intel integrated graphics. runs as good as my desktop with a geforce 8600
 
[citation][nom]aylafan[/nom]Windows 7 comes with Virtual XP Mode (with a patch you can use it on all Windows 7 versions). Basically, it will let you install a copy of Windows XP in a virtual environment and use your old 16bit programs just fine. You can also use VMLite (which I personally use). http://www.vmlite.com[/citation]
only with ultimate though cant just say that it could confuse people
 
[citation][nom]shadow187[/nom]Those are the minimum requirements for Windows 7, IIRC.[/citation]
See jrrdmchls's post. Also, I ran Win7 on an old laptop with Intel GMA 900 graphics, lol. Its Windows Experience Index rating was 1.0, and I couldn't use Aero, but it was fine for day-to-day functions and could even drive two medium-res monitors simultaneously.
 
[citation][nom]drksilenc[/nom]only with ultimate though cant just say that it could confuse people[/citation]

That's why I said with a patch installed... If you search hard enough on google, you can find it.

"Windows Virtual PC is available free of charge for all editions of Windows 7 except Starter and Home. Windows XP Mode is available free of charge to users of Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions" -Wikipedia

There are plenty of alternatives to Virtual PC though. He could use VMLite, Virtualbox, VMware Player, et cetera.
 
Finally, I think XP has become outdated and there's no reason to stay behind the curve. Other than junkers for older games, or businesses with no real need to upgrade. But at this point, I see no reason to not move to Windows 7.
 
drksilenc- Also, assuming he does have a legit Windows XP CD. All he has to do is download Windows Virtual PC and install the Windows XP CD. Simple as that. There is no need to buy Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate.
 
Now why would anyone want to keep an old OS! When a customer comes in with an old Windows 98 system it doesnt matter that this system is still stable and runs fine. What matters is that it cant support most of the newer programs and protocols. THE SAME THING IS HAPPENING WITH WIN XP!! People stop being cheap and get your system up to date and stop crying about your old machine and OS dying!!!
 

Fact is Vista doesn't work on their PC. It's your word against theirs. Because it works on yours does not mean they are talking rubbish. i didn't have much issue with Vista myself, but some people do. Its the same with any OS.


And what do you gain other than a $100 compatibility fix to the issue mentioned in the article?
 
[citation][nom]Tekkie9[/nom]If you align your partitions correctly, you should not have any problems using the new drives with XP.[/citation]Yes! BBC fails again. You don't even need to use the jumper option. You can use software supplied by the drive manufacturers to align sectors after you get everything up and running. If you do this, you won't lose any functionality at all, partitions and everything work fine. :/
 
Now why would anyone want to keep an old OS! When a customer comes in with an old Windows 98 system it doesnt matter that this system is still stable and runs fine. What matters is that it cant support most of the newer programs and protocols. THE SAME THING IS HAPPENING WITH WIN XP!! People stop being cheap and get your system up to date and stop crying about your old machine and OS dying!!!

 
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I had been using xp since perhaps 2002. Skipped on Vista, but am now using win 7 64 bit since Feb 2010. I must say that as noted above, win 7 is as reliable than xp with a lot more (think system restore for a bad problem which usually did not work with xp), search bar which loads fast, and so many other benefits seen as I go along. The biggest fear was that some programs may not work but they all do on 64 bit (even some 5+ year old software). No sense in going back to xp again.
 
[citation][nom]shadow187[/nom]Those are the minimum requirements for Windows 7, IIRC.[/citation]

Someone said that win 7 does work on 7xxx+ series or even lesser. Yes it does, but not properly on my machine at least. I have a core i 7 920, MSI x58, 5gb ddr3 ram. Till 1-3-10, my machine was running with Nvidia 7300/7200 geforce. Updated drivers on win 7 64 installation. However, faced major problems with desktop icons frequently not loading on startup. Result: reboot and hope for the best. In fact, initially I thought that it was the problem with win 7. Checked around, but not the case. The problem caused reinstallations and at least 1 crash (think rebooting in an improper way sometimes). Finally junked the nvidia 7300 and bought a 9800gt. Result: problem gone.
 
WD Advanced Format drives are specifically optimized for Mac and the latest Windows operating systems such as Windows Vista and Windows 7 with a clean install. Advanced Format Technology is being adopted by WD and other drive manufacturers to increase media format efficiency, thus enabling larger drive capacities. http://www.wdc.com/en/products/advancedformat/

Keeping Windows XP just for the old Games and if that's what its comes down to well lets go for it. We need to push upgrades like this a lot faster instead of waiting 30 years to do so, any one wants more info read the link from here and this part in Upgrading and repairing PCs 14th ED head over the Google.com/books search Upgrading and repairing PCs first book Page 602.

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