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post #1 of 10
10/24/10 at 1:01pm
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Is it possible? I have Windows 7 in my gaming/main rig, but I was trying to avoid buying ANOTHER license for my HTPC.
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post #2 of 10
10/24/10 at 1:24pm
Bitstreaming how, exactly? Are you going to be using TMT3/PDVD10, or are you going to be using MPC-HC + ffdshow? I guess you could just try following dbone's guide and see if it works. I don't believe XP supports it, but I haven't tried it myself.

http://www.mediasmartserver.net/2010...7-htpc-part-i/
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post #3 of 10
10/24/10 at 2:36pm
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MPC-HC for sure. I'll try and see if it works...
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post #4 of 10
10/24/10 at 7:47pm
I've tried different methods and couldn't get any of them to work with XP Pro or XP MCE except when combined with my Asus HDAV 1.3 which is a pretty expensive solution.

If you get it working, please let us know how you did it. I've got an unused XP Pro license I want to use.
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post #5 of 10
10/25/10 at 1:11am
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I am about to start a new OS (Win7) on a SSD drive (64GB). I am wondering if its possible to burn/copy an image of my whole C: drive and all it contains so that when I want to re-install Win7, I can just get that image that's on a flash drive, other HD, blank Blu-ray, etc etc...?

Is this possible? I'd likely keep saving this image (once a week, twice a month, whatever) and then when I comes to wanting to reformat, I can just format my SSD and then copy the entire image over and voila, Win7 and all my programs are still perfectly installed....

Possible?
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post #6 of 10
10/25/10 at 9:43am
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I am about to start a new OS (Win7) on a SSD drive (64GB). I am wondering if its possible to burn/copy an image of my whole C: drive and all it contains so that when I want to re-install Win7, I can just get that image that's on a flash drive, other HD, blank Blu-ray, etc etc...?

Is this possible? I'd likely keep saving this image (once a week, twice a month, whatever) and then when I comes to wanting to reformat, I can just format my SSD and then copy the entire image over and voila, Win7 and all my programs are still perfectly installed....

Possible?

I use the freeware version of Macrium Reflect and it's worked perfectly for me on WinXP, Vista, and 7.

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp
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post #7 of 10
10/25/10 at 2:00pm
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I use the freeware version of Macrium Reflect and it's worked perfectly for me on WinXP, Vista, and 7.

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

Nice, thanks man! I heard through the grapevine, Win7 has a native imaging backup??
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post #8 of 10
10/25/10 at 5:41pm
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Nice, thanks man! I heard through the grapevine, Win7 has a native imaging backup??

I'm not sure. I've gone from Powerquest Drive Image to Acronis True Image to Macrium.
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post #9 of 10
10/25/10 at 8:15pm
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Nice, thanks man! I heard through the grapevine, Win7 has a native imaging backup??

I think it is in the Ultimate version only.
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post #10 of 10
10/25/10 at 8:58pm
Home Premium supports full-system backup and restore. How to copy the image to a new drive.
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