Recent content by Dan ATR

What I might do is phone up my friends at novatech and see if they could help me out... Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-bit DVD - OEM - Service Pack 1

I don't think MSDN is the way forward for me. Is there not a Microsoft link or anything I could just use to purchase just the product key and get my system up and running?

Ill take a look at this. The PC is just for personal use.

This sucks... :( How can I purchase just the product key? Microsoft don't have a page on there site for this.

Hi there, My name is Dan and I have finally installed Windows7 on my XP machine. Its taken me some time but this is no doubt the best OS Microsoft have made in a while. Now..... Knowing my stuff I decided to search around and purchase just the product key from a legit site as I already have...

He he he he, I love these discussions. :D I just wanted to point this out as an idea etc.. that was all but hard hitting. I do realise that drivers are updated all the time etc... due to bad QA and bad programming and also due to other applications changing the ways in which they deal with...

Ill believe this when I see it. Im going to wipe my 7 year old AMD and see if that does the job. It usually does. You mean to say Im having issues with Microsoft's virtualisation software ;) On a new fresh SP3 install of XP Pro. PMSL I like that lol. All the more to go AMD.

Sorry I totally disagree with you. MS have more then likely got the email addresses for every major hardware business out there. All they need to do is email the manufactures and ask them for a bundle pack of al the drivers they have and there you go... Not hard ;) I scouted for drivers for...

You very will might be correct there. As I didn't install any divers..... Now that I know I need to use the vista drivers I will try this when I get home. All the same, by now surly MS should have put all of the correct new drivers into the build. Its big enough don't you think :confused...

To be honest fokes, it should not matter what hardware you have in your PC according to what I found last night. My PC I have is a Q6600, 4GB of g.Skill 800MHz DDR2 ram, 1K Galexy PSU, Asus Maximus Formular MB, 6 x Westal Digital RE Drives in a RAID5. All in a Coolermaster Stacker STC-T01 case...

I have he same issue. Though the install was not that long, only about 2hrs but via Virtual PC 2007 SP1. I allocated 1.5GB of my DDR2 800MHz RAM to run it (In total on my PC I have 4GB) and allocated 20GB of RAID5 disk space too. My CPU is a Q6600 and I am running the VM on XP Pro SP3. Once...