RE: What's the Best Way To Move To A New HDD
October 5, 2018 at 6:37 pm
(This post was last modified: October 5, 2018 at 6:52 pm by bennyboy.)
(October 5, 2018 at 4:37 am)ignoramus Wrote: Just IOT win10 engine ... no desktop display.
It's an option to dl for my raspberry Pi 3B+
Can't be that much of a hog if it runs on a Pi...
Oh.
I don't know much about that stuff. But I do have some possibly related experience-- I now write my Android apps using Xamarin in Visual Studio (which is the Microsoft development platform), which basically uses the Windows SDK. So when I want for example to ftp a sound file that someone's just recorded on their phone to my server, I use the same C# libraries and code that I use in Windows programming, instead of having to find and use some old android FTP java library like I did last time. I've completely abandoned the Android development environment, and for what I'm doing, it's cut the stress and time of development to about 10%
(October 5, 2018 at 8:02 am)popeyespappy Wrote: I don't have any complaints with Windows 10. I'm running it on my personal laptop and a micro PC I use as a media server. I have found it to be fast and stable. Mike's problem with it is like most of us he has more stuff to do than time to do it. He hasn't had the time to concentrate on learning the in and outs of 10. That's happening slowly over time because most of the new PC's we have been buying at work are Windows 10 machines, but he just isn't as comfortable with 10 as he is with 7 at this point in time. We will both be using this new workstation, me for the images, him to digitize several hundred old audio tapes. He said he would rather use 7 so 7 it is.
Oh OK. My only worries would have been that Windows 7 couldn't handle >2TB drives, and that Microsoft has stopped updating the system for security flaws. It definitely does handle the drives.
As for security, Windows 7 will be supported until 2020. And anyway, installing a new OS these days takes a matter of minutes. I'd recommend moving your desktop and documents folders to a drive other than your OS drive, so you can be as merciless with your OS installation as I am-- if ANYTHING bugs me at all, I will almost immediately wipe the drive and re-install windows.
