something fishy here
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 5:23 am
I'm assuming that my version of BING (1.81, yeah, I know) is too out-of-date to use with recent hardware, but it's been so faithful for so long that I thought I'd at least check.
I just got a new laptop (well, new to me), a dell vostro 1510, 4G Ram, intel core duo 2Ghz t7250 loaded with 32-bit Windows 7, but otherwise clean--totally fresh install. So the first thing I did when I got home with it was boot up with my trusty ol' BING CD and attempt to paste an image to a removable drive. The operation proceeded normally, no error messages or anything; progress bars for both image creation and validation finished like they should; the only problem is that they did it in about 15 seconds apiece and created a microscopic image of 10 megabytes.
Since the Win7 installation is taking up 17 gigabytes, something is clearly wrong. It's been a long time since I've had to create a new image--I have a library of images for two rock-solid machines which have served me well since 2006, so this is the first time since ca. 2008 that I've actually made an image--but to my recollection BING never achieved that magnitude of compression.
So before I move forward with an attempt to resize the boot partition and create some additional logical drives, I thought I'd better see if I'll fubar the system because old BING won't work with new hardware.
Thanks...
I just got a new laptop (well, new to me), a dell vostro 1510, 4G Ram, intel core duo 2Ghz t7250 loaded with 32-bit Windows 7, but otherwise clean--totally fresh install. So the first thing I did when I got home with it was boot up with my trusty ol' BING CD and attempt to paste an image to a removable drive. The operation proceeded normally, no error messages or anything; progress bars for both image creation and validation finished like they should; the only problem is that they did it in about 15 seconds apiece and created a microscopic image of 10 megabytes.
Since the Win7 installation is taking up 17 gigabytes, something is clearly wrong. It's been a long time since I've had to create a new image--I have a library of images for two rock-solid machines which have served me well since 2006, so this is the first time since ca. 2008 that I've actually made an image--but to my recollection BING never achieved that magnitude of compression.
So before I move forward with an attempt to resize the boot partition and create some additional logical drives, I thought I'd better see if I'll fubar the system because old BING won't work with new hardware.
Thanks...