Migrating WoW

[LavCat]

btw, Good Luck !!!

This was going to be a "Greetings from Windows 7!" post, but I gave up for the night and went back to XP. Besides, my lo mein is too salty, too oily, and cold. However I did get dual boot to work, actually triple boot. It's so nice to see a DOS prompt! Windows 7 won't recognise DOS, but XP will, so the procedure is to install DOS, then XP, then Windows 7.

The main problem remains how to set the Windows 7 system partition drive letter. Nothing I have tried has had any effect. At the moment the boot drive is C and the system drive is D. I have not yet tried the Microsoft registry hack.

Then I assumed that one could run the XP Easy [it's never easy] Transfer Wizard to save settings, then run the Windows 7 Easy Transfer Wizard to restore settings to the new OS. No. First one must install Windows 7, then transfer the Windows 7 version of the Easy Transfer Wizard back to Windows XP, run the Windows 7 Easy Transfer Wizard in XP, then transfer the Windows 7 Easy Transfer Wizard transfered settings back to Windows 7, and run the Windows 7 Easy Transfer Wizard under Windows 7 to restore the setiings.

Windows 7 spent considerable time and effort trying to format the Windows 7 installation DVD. I figure this is a productivity enhancement. That or it was due to an AHCI driver incompatibility.

I also checked the Windows 7 EULA with respect to the Tom's Hardware poster's advice that "MS actually allows you to install Windows as many times as you want on a single machine."

"License Model. The software is licensed on a per copy per computer basis...A hardware partition or blade is considered to be a separate computer...You may install one copy of the software on one computer."