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Schwanke78's Win-7 and V1819 Feedback!
Finally decided to make the jump and make the experience with Windows-7, I settled on two copies of Win-7 Professional OEM that I bought at my local CompUSA store. Next task at hand was to flash my two 64GB Falcon's to FW v1819, I used WINPE before to flash my drives to FW v1571 using a USB Flash Drive. The new Firmware does not allow the WINPE and Flash Drive, you need to do exactly what G.Skill says here http://gskill.us/forum/showthread.php?t=2496 be sure to plug in your drive once Windows is up and running. If you plug it in before the boot-up you may get a BSD and end up pulling out some hair! Anyways down to business the FW update does work and got all my 1st Gen Falcon drives fully 1819 compliant.
Now on to install, Windows-7 has a 100MB Partition that it creates by default, don't panic it is normal and by no means erase it because your system will cease to boot. But in the event you do this the install disk can and will repair the boot partition sector. You may ask why the allotted 100MB space and even why the small partition. Windows Professional and Ultimate can run Virtualization and all that means is dual OS Operating Systems.
Far as the Operating System goes, it’s nice and have yet to get one of those Vista hang-ups. Windows-7 is really nothing more than a cleaned up Vista platform without any 3rd party drivers to bloat it! Far as gaming goes I gained about 3-4fps in Crysis Wars on my Sager Notebook. So is upgraded to Win-7 worth it, cannot really say since I must have the newest stuff when it comes out. For Wiper the command still works, but it’s very slow on its progress and that could be because of Win-7’s own trim command working against it, not 100% sure yet on this phenomena. Maybe G.Skill will send me some goodies one day to play with and then I can really give some good feedback!
So three things I would like to highlight.
1. Flashing the drive is done on another machine or a dual OS system and the drive being flashed does not need to be Disk-0.
2. Don't delete the 100MB System Reserved Partition unless you want boot-up trouble.
3. Windows overall is worth it if your coming from XP land or Vitsa Basic. If you have Vista Premium (64) or up, you may want to hold on to your current OS this is just my opinion.
Now on to install, Windows-7 has a 100MB Partition that it creates by default, don't panic it is normal and by no means erase it because your system will cease to boot. But in the event you do this the install disk can and will repair the boot partition sector. You may ask why the allotted 100MB space and even why the small partition. Windows Professional and Ultimate can run Virtualization and all that means is dual OS Operating Systems.
Far as the Operating System goes, it’s nice and have yet to get one of those Vista hang-ups. Windows-7 is really nothing more than a cleaned up Vista platform without any 3rd party drivers to bloat it! Far as gaming goes I gained about 3-4fps in Crysis Wars on my Sager Notebook. So is upgraded to Win-7 worth it, cannot really say since I must have the newest stuff when it comes out. For Wiper the command still works, but it’s very slow on its progress and that could be because of Win-7’s own trim command working against it, not 100% sure yet on this phenomena. Maybe G.Skill will send me some goodies one day to play with and then I can really give some good feedback!
So three things I would like to highlight.
1. Flashing the drive is done on another machine or a dual OS system and the drive being flashed does not need to be Disk-0.
2. Don't delete the 100MB System Reserved Partition unless you want boot-up trouble.
3. Windows overall is worth it if your coming from XP land or Vitsa Basic. If you have Vista Premium (64) or up, you may want to hold on to your current OS this is just my opinion.
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