XPost: microsoft.public.sqlserver.programming   
   From: ttoews@telusplanet.net   
      
   On Wed, 09 May 2012 10:37:00 -0700, Gene Wirchenko    
   wrote:   
      
   >     I have two systems: an XP system which is my main system and a   
   >Windows 7 system which is for development.  The latter is a   
   >sacrificial goat which might get sacrificed yet and rebuilt.   
      
   Consider using Virtual PC or Virtual Box for such sacrificial OSs.  So   
   long as the host PC has lots of RAM.  If you use an USB attached   
   external hard drive (and at least a dual core PC although I don't   
   think you could find a single core PC these days)  you won't even   
   notice the OS startup and shutdown.  I have every version of Windows   
   since 2000 on that external hard drive.   
      
   >     I download them to my XP system.  Anything that I want on my 7   
   >system, I copy to a memory stick and from there to the 7 system.   
   >   
   >     It does not always work!  I have gotten messages about corrupt   
   >SQL Server installation files.  This does not happen often, and there   
   >is not much corruption.  It is an occasional few (usually four) bytes   
   >in a sector.  This behaviour seems to happen only with large files.   
      
   Do you copy from the memory stick to the hard drive and then do the   
   install?  Or install from the memory stick?  Memory sticks don't seem   
   to do well with lots of different reads like an install would do.   
   But that's very subjective on my part.   
      
   Tony   
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