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   From: genew@ocis.net   
      
   On Wed, 09 May 2012 13:59:45 -0600, Tony Toews   
    wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
        Not enough RAM on my XP system.  I needed another computer   
   anyway.  Not using such is simpler.  Maybe I will give it a try if my   
   7 system ever becomes my main system.   
      
   [snip]   
      
   >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.   
      
         I copy to the hard drive of the 7 system and install from the   
   hard drive.  The slowness that I have seen with memory sticks has been   
   with writes.  That may have been a different USB version as it was   
   some years ago.   
      
   Sincerely,   
      
   Gene Wirchenko   
      
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