I’ve been slowly moving my stuff over to Windows 7. I did my laptop first. That was a breeze because it was running Vista. All I had to do was drop the DVD and start the process. An hour or two later it was done. It appears to have worked flawlessly.
My workstation….A bit more challenging. It was running Server 2008. Initially I considered going to Server 2008R2 and running HyperV, but the more I looked the less appealing this became. My fantasy of having 3 different machine that I could easily switch between on the console isn’t ready for prime time.
So Windows 7 went on. Two headaches: first is that you can’t upgrade from Server to Windows 7. Therefore I had to repave. Which brought up the bigger problem. For whatever reason the installer kept giving me an error about not being able to create the system partition. After some searching around I saw that others had the same problem. The solution that worked for me was to disconnect all of the drives but the one that would receive the OS. After that everything has gone really well.
So now I’m running Window 7 64bit w/ 6Gb of ram. One thing I’ve noticed is that the sound quality is a lot better. No idea why, but it seems like it is doing a better job driving the bass. I’m actually having to turn the sound down now. Or maybe I have brain cancer and it is affecting my hearing. Whatever.
I’m now down to the joyful process of reinstalling everything and doing the configuration dance. The user migration tool wouldn’t work on Server 2008.
Which brings up something from Startup Weekend: somebody pitched the idea of creating a marketplace for Windows apps. His idea was that it would remember your settings so you could move to another machine and it would set you up. Sounds dreamy right now.