1st look @W7

3 hdd's (1ssd) - it went after an extra one, two. made a ntfs w7
"system reserve" - 100meg primary part on an old platter hdd.
Independently under advanced install - no asking about it.

then pointed the bulk install to the ssd. went on fine, a 20G ssd
primary partition

soo...tried to ghost them first thing. the bulk install, oh boy, took
12 minutes (takes me 45 seconds to restore XP). Interesting W7's 12
or 14G (installed datum/material) reduces into Ghost's archival
compression (over three volumes) to 4.5G.

soo2...went after, had to, that 100M-ish "system reserve" with a
ghosted image. RESULT: puked. No more W7 and never got to see how
fast a platterSSD restore on those 4.5 images would go.

so much for my initial W7 "screen." Now I get to reinstall.

Good part - other than going after an extra drive for a system
partition (system reserve), there was no messing with a boot
arbitrator and two other OS on other (SSD) partitions. That part was
really great! (XP, I'd basically have to reinstall the arbitrator
after it was finished messing things up.)


had a MS program mess w/ me suddenly (my OS "no longer supported"
error) - not exactly how i wanted to get into W7, but, hey. . . it
happens, and I've got a date now with one of MS's competitors for
buying online services MS formerly provided. Line up the options and
see how things go if that's how MS wants to play it. Maybe I get
acceptable services elsewhere and MS loses some of my money.

Maybe.