Installing Windows was: speakup is nice

[Tyler Littlefield]

> Windows doesn't have SATA drivers? How quaint?
It does, but you can't boot with a normal cd, least not the ones I have, if 
you buy a laptop from gw, and toshiba for sure. You need to make an image of 
the cd with the extracted driver, which I haven't had the pacients to do.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Dotson" <nickdotson at bellsouth.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: Installing Windows was: speakup is nice


> Wrong!  I'm using them under XP Home Pro and Vista.
>
> Nick
>
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 10:12 AM
> Subject: Re: Installing Windows was: speakup is nice
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>> Windows doesn't have SATA drivers? How quaint?
>>
>> I've also heard their 64-bit support is behind. Is that so?
>>
>> Janina
>>
>> Tyler Littlefield writes:
>>> I've got xp. right now, the only thing stopping me from going totally
>>> with that rather than with this crap they load is the fact that I can't
>>> get sata drivers, and any other xp install doesn't recognize it.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Tyler Littlefield
>>> http://tysdomain.com
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>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak"
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>>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
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>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 1:23 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Installing Windows was: speakup is nice
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>>>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:53:25AM -0600, John G. Heim wrote:
>>>>> Oh, shoot! One more major drawback. It doesn't work with Vista. Only
>>>>> Windows XP. I'd presume though that you could install XP, install 
>>>>> speech,
>>>>> and then upgrade to Vista. That used to work when upgrading from 95 or 
>>>>> ME
>>>>> to XP.
>>>>
>>>> The other drawback I see here too is that this requires you to have
>>>> both legal copies of xp, and an upgrade copy of vista. This could be
>>>> quite expensive, assuming you want to go legal of course. Also, this
>>>> is fine, as long as it's still possible to buy a copy of xp. However,
>>>> once those stop being sold, and you don't have one before that
>>>> happens, you're probably out of luck.
>>>>
>>>> Greg
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