On Windows 7 Release Candidate 1

[reisen55]

IF you have a large collection of pictures (and this place abounds in those who collect like mad) ... let me post a technical warning.

I experimented with Windows 7 RC1 two days ago - works fine, a few bugs here and there but overall not bad and better than the curse of Vista. However, I also had a 1 terabyte drive attached with two partition on it as a secondary drive. IF you have collections of stuff on your computer in this manner - pull the cables on the secondary drive BEFORE you do Windows 7.

The thing also touched my lower drive and detonated one of two 500gb partitions. Fortunately, I think around these issues and have a complete secondary storage system that I was able to use for a 30 minute restoration run and, also, am very good at restoration of Windows XP.

Be careful friends if you have a precious qsand picture collection in such a place.

[Aiko]

The thing also touched my lower drive and detonated one of two 500gb partitions.

And I had heard Windows 7 was already very usable and stable.

What exactly do you mean by "detonated"? Was the partition simply gone or were the files on it unreadable...?

Thanks for the warning!

[reisen55]

The odd thing was that the partition was rendered comatose according to Partition Magic, usually the default reference on everything. The name of the partition was converted from 'STORAGE' to " $0$ " --- not good. Windows XP when it came up touched the partition and collapsed. Refused to even load.

So I would now err on the safe side and install Windows 7 on a ONE DRIVE system for diagnostics only.

[Duncan Edwards]

Look, Windows 7 is not a finished product. Even after general release I won't touch it until Bill Gates has let the world debug it and released a couple of service packs, a hundred security updates, and all the other patches, fixes, and upgrades, that will ultimately be required. Until then, and only after a trial of my own, I will treat it as though it might burn my house down just by taking it out of the box. I sure won't put it on a drive with anything I care about until then.

[rgadt]

I've just now started collecting parts for our next home computer, with the intention of installing RC1 on it, and tinkering around with it to see how well it works. I have a brand new WD 500GB drive to install it on. It should get nowhere near my archive drive on my current system until the retail version is installed, whenever that is I know the RC1 is only good until June 2010 but this is only a trial anyway. What can you expect to get for free from Microsoft anyway?
rgadt

[Mynock]

Look, Windows 7 is not a finished product. Even after general release I won't touch it until Bill Gates has let the world debug it and released a couple of service packs, a hundred security updates, and all the other patches, fixes, and upgrades, that will ultimately be required. Until then, and only after a trial of my own, I will treat it as though it might burn my house down just by taking it out of the box. I sure won't put it on a drive with anything I care about until then.

Totally agreed. I've said it before and I'll say it again, no Windows product is finished till at least 6 months and two service packs after it's released. Buy it before then and all you're doing is beta testing it for Microsoft at your own expense.

[Sekani]

Hey, I don't mind being Microsoft's guinea pig, especially when the reward is an OS that's light years better than Windows Vista free for a year.

The topic creator's problem sounds like an isolated occurrence. I have multiple drives/partitions on my machine as well, and neither my tech-savvy friends nor myself have had an issue with drives mysteriously being corrupted.