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90 mins upload time left from time of this post.

Uploading now, watch this space..

OK got it coming down nice and fast on a torrent, I will pop it in vault when done. Will take a wee while to upload with my upload speed though...

How big is the download Jim? The best and most reliable (and probably the only way truthfully) is to use FTP to upload it.. As per instructions here: http://www.dangerdogz.com/forums/index.php/topic,6618.0.html If you can just do the FTP bit and PM me when done I can do the rest

Is anyone going to copy this up to the vault for the benefit of others, or will you wait for me to do it when I get home and finally grab a copy?

+1 on RMA Toad from me.

That is a nice sig you got there Smash Rather big too, good job we sacked the Gestapo trained sig image checker

RAID 0 is where the data is spread across 2 disks, and gives a read and write performance boost and storage efficient - disk space is combined 2+ disks. Downside, if one disk fails all data is gone. RAID 1 is disk mirroring, disk #2 is an exact copy of disk #1. No performance loss or boost max 2 drives. Down side, only half disk space available (the equivalent of the smallest disk). RAID 5 is striping with parity, like RAID 0 but the array uses space to hold the parity data used to rebuild a failed disk. Requires 3+ disks and boosts read/write performance. Can withstand a single disk failure. Down side, one disk lost for parity purposes. More can be read here if you so feel inclined: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

Nice job m8! Good test of the new image viewer plugin too, seemed a bit buggy under FireFox but great in IE

At nearly 3Gb it will take an age to upload, and require the use of an FTP client...

so wrong...!!!!!!!! Don't unzip it!! It is an ISO file, think of it as an electronic representation of the physical DVD media. This includes the boot sector area, which will not be written if you first extract it - unzipping merely makes available the contents rather than the format! Your burning software will use this to make an exact copy of the original media, so point Imgburn to the iso file only then burn and you should be good to go.

That is exactly the one I have, from Microsoft TechNet. Should burn no problem, I did both that and the 32Bit one without issue.

Did you get a file from Microsoft called something like: en_windows_7_ultimate_rc_x86_dvd_349010.iso If so then burning that should be a snap, 2nd image on Imgburn forum you posted has a 'Write image file to disk' button. That would be the one to use, I don't have/use Imgburn but would think clicking that will prompt for you to point it to an iso file.

The only boot priority list change you need to make is to boot off DVD, don't get hung up on needing to change HD priorities. The Windows boot loader will take care of it for you, and give you a choice of 7 or XP when completed. On of three things may have occurred (or possibly 2 of 3): a. You did not burn the DVD as an image, and it is not bootable. What burning software are you using? ImgBurn is a freebie that will burn a DVD image. b. You have not correctly set your DVD drive as first boot device. c. You did not press a key when prompted to boot off DVD Nope, don't do that! Otherwise you will need to use the boot device selection choice/priority your BIOS offers. I suspect your burning software allowed you to open the ISO file for 7, and burn the contents to DVD. As opposed to burning a direct image/copy/clone of the iso..

7 will use your current boot disk, no need to modify BIOS. 7 will modify your boot to give you an OS selection. Unless you do change boot options in BIOS of course - and I would counsel against that. (the 'disk option' I refer to is whatever your BIOS calls boot disk priority).

Works pretty much as you stated. 1. Change boot order - DVD #1 HD #2 2. Boot off Win 7 3. Setup routine gives opportunity to select drive (after choosing Custom Install option not 'Upgrade'). 4. Format drive using 7 5. You will get a boot choice when done - 7 or earlier operating system. 6. Your system will still be booting off the original C drive - so disk option in BIOS invalid 7. Win 7 Firewall does look much better, the best yet. Avira works with 7 - ZoneAlarm does too, but I have encountered IPV6 issues that could be down to ZoneAlarm (IPV6 is required to home network).

UK or US based guy? I ask because 'installed from disk' would indicate he may be using a copy protected version, and 7 has not allowed the driver install. He could try using the NoDVD patch and see if that will remedy it. I have the RTM (gold) version of 7 but have to confess I have not yet tried IL2 on it yet, might be able to grab a few minutes to give it a whirl when I get home tonight. My lad has had some grief with 7 and games on his PC, but he resorted to running them in compatibility mode, which succeeded...he is ahead of me with 7

Dunno about this Rog, it does the same to me and I only use one machine for accessing the forum? Thanks Nick. I updated the forum, but so far have drawn a blank on any other forums running SMF displaying this issue... Now where did I leave my spade, digging begs.......

I'll upload my copy, I may already have it on the web somewhere... Only works under XP 32Bit though, and you have to do a DEP dance with it to get macro recording working. I have 3 MSFFB2 sticks now, one of them is the silver button version

I'll upload my copy, I may already have it on the web somewhere... Only works under XP 32Bit though, and you have to do a DEP dance with it to get macro recording working. I have 3 MSFFB2 sticks now, one of them is the silver button version

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OK so do we want the two clocks on all boards?