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something fishy here

Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 5:23 am
by schmibble
I'm assuming that my version of BING (1.81, yeah, I know) is too out-of-date to use with recent hardware, but it's been so faithful for so long that I thought I'd at least check.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...

Re: something fishy here

Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 6:46 am
by TeraByte Support
you should at least use 1.87, but upgrade to BIBM. If you want to have an
idea of what' sup, you can use things like "details" to show free/used space
in partition work/etc. Of course 10M is not the full 17g.

"schmibble" wrote in message news:3074@public.bootitng...

I'm assuming that my version of BING (1.81, yeah, I know) is too out-of-date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...


Re: something fishy here

Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 9:14 pm
by mjnelson99
When I got a new laptop I attempted to resize a Win 7 X64
partition using BING 1.87.

It would not work, possibly because of X64. I forget the
exact message but BING was not detecting the partition the
way is should have done.

I used Win 7 itself to resize it with no problems AFTER I
created an image using IFL (Image for Linux).

BIBM would probably have worked fine for all the operations
I wanted to do. It is a good way to go.

BING will probably work OK on your 32 bit system.

Do update to 1.87 as previously suggested.
Mary

On 8/25/2012 12:23 AM, schmibble wrote:
> 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...
>
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