Doug
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Well vista is a very good OS from my experience but only having 1gb of ram Im really not getting the best experience of it. It hangs and freezes when trying to work stuff out and is just generally too slow on my laptop!
I will come back to vista no doubt. But it will be when I have either a better specced laptop or a desktop PC with like 4gb ram 
Goodbye Vista, Hello XP Pro
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Richie
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I agree fully
I had RC2 going on mine and with 1.5GB of RAM and an Athlon64 3200+ it was still struggling by.
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sigibbons
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So what spec is acceptable to use with Vista?
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danny_vx
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Should have seen how bad my laptop was struggling running Vista on 512MB RAM... 
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topshot_2k
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TBH 1gb is nothing for today. my phone had gig
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John
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I run vista on a 1gig dell laptop with onboard graphics and it runs aero etc and runs along at least as fast as xp.
Agreeing that your RC version ran slow isn't saying much is it?
I will be moving my main pc over to vista as soon as I get an lcd.
Only thing thats stopping me is the hassle I have to go to to get movies and tv shows to show properly on my tv.
Can't do what i need to do in the vista drivers.
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Steve
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my vista runs fine on 1.5gb ram
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Andrew
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I've got it on a dual boot as once i get all my applications on, it slows down.
Summer brings on a higher spec PC for me!
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Doug
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I have no choice to change now
As I posted that message my anti virus did an update so I agreeed to restart the computer. Now vista has deleted its boot records or something. It wont boot and it wont repair itself so looks like I have to do a fresh install of XP!! FFS.
I think im going to download a linux distribution that can be run from a CD so I can try and save some of my files like all my uni work etc!
*Posted on a pentium 3 hamster powered uni computer*
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Rob_Quads
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quote:
Originally posted by topshot_2k
TBH 1gb is nothing for today. my phone had gig
You must have one hell of an advanced phone. The most I have seen out there is around 256MB on a phone.
Unless your talking about solid state memory which of course is slower than a disk
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corb
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Im running vista with 512mb  and it keeps playing up. what happens about it having already been activated if i want to put vista onto a new machine in the future and go back to xp on this one for now?
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kz
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i dont understand people saying this... im running vista ultimate on 512Mb and its perfect!
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Brett
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This makes me laugh, har har 
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CorsaKen1
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I have just bought a laptop inbuilt vista and has 2038mb and it runs no problem saying that it has only been 2 weeks
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Doug
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This is proving to be quite problematic for me :angry:
I really dont want to have to wipe my laptop as I have no recent back up of any of my data!!
There are a couple important docs on there and god knows how many pictures that I dont want to loose 
I have tried booting the knoppix distribution from a CD but it only allows me use of a VERY limited shell beacuse it cant find something it needs..... Surely everything it needs should be on the CD?!
Are there any decent linux distributions that are perfect for this sort of situation?
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Cybermonkey
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quote:
Originally posted by Richie
I agree fully
I had RC2 going on mine and with 1.5GB of RAM and an Athlon64 3200+ it was still struggling by.
i was running RC2 on 1GB RAM and an Athlon 3200XP and it was perfectly fine 
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Jamescorsa97
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Was your cpu overclocked monkeh?
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Cybermonkey
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yeah its a 2800 as standard, overclocked to 3200 speeds
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Corsa Sport Gav
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it runs fine on mine 2gb ram and AMD 4200 dual core 
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Ian
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quote:
Originally posted by Doug
Are there any decent linux distributions that are perfect for this sort of situation?
Write your data to another computer on a network, pen drive, card reader and some camera or phone memory?
How much data do you have to save?
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Andrew
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quote:
Originally posted by Doug
This is proving to be quite problematic for me :angry:
I really dont want to have to wipe my laptop as I have no recent back up of any of my data!!
There are a couple important docs on there and god knows how many pictures that I dont want to loose
I have tried booting the knoppix distribution from a CD but it only allows me use of a VERY limited shell beacuse it cant find something it needs..... Surely everything it needs should be on the CD?!
Are there any decent linux distributions that are perfect for this sort of situation?
I've got Mandrake Linux on as another dual boot, yes i have 5 operating systems I'm a sad git but nevermind
The Knoppix distribution is used by forensics, it won't store anything on your hard drive but will allow you to access it. What have you done to it exacally?
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Andrew
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Make that SuSE too  I need to get out more
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jay kay
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if you cant get your data off our drive without formating just format your drive and then use an external hard disk to recover it using file scavenger ive done it plenty of times on mine just takes a while to get it all back .
You will need an external hard disk as it will not recover to the same disk . This is a last resort really will recover data from formats without a problem. Usually i do a quick format and then recover.
Works if your system is NTFS 
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Cybermonkey
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quote:
Originally posted by jay kay
if you cant get your data off our drive without formating just format your drive and then use an external hard disk to recover it using file scavenger ive done it plenty of times on mine just takes a while to get it all back .
You will need an external hard disk as it will not recover to the same disk . This is a last resort really will recover data from formats without a problem. Usually i do a quick format and then recover.
Works if your system is NTFS
that is a dodgy as fuck way of doing things!!!
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Doug
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Well I have used knoppix in the past to get stuff off a shagged windows pc. Just for ome reason knoppix just dosnt want to boot up on my laptop, it cant find its file system!!
I have about 1gb of stuff I really want and about 10gb of stuff that would be nice to keep (some recently DL'd TV series etc)
I have a 4gb usb key so it isnt too bad.
Im just trying to boot knoppix using every cheat code they give you hoping to find a way to make it boot properly
So far 'failsafe' is the only one that makes it boot properly but even then I cant use my mouse and it only loads up the background and no buttons or anything
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