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The current setup is a host OS drive with documents and programs and a second bulk drive for documents and game files. I want to migrate the entire contents to a 3TB drive, preserving the links so that programs will not need to be reinstalled, and turning the 3TB drive into the new host OS drive. Then I'm going to paste files from another three or so small hard drives and about thirteen DVDs worth of data. Much of the data is redundant, with four or more copies of the same file.
I'd also like to figure out partitioning, with putting as much of the OS in its own smaller partition as possible, with as many programs and associated program data as possible on the larger partition. I have some legacy games that insist on residing on the primary C drive; other programs try to put some sort of data in a location other than the destination folder, like Application Data.
I've never had good success finding out which services are essential, and which ones can be disabled or excluded in a slipstreamed install without breaking functionality (for example, Homegroup sharing does not work between any of the four Win7 systems in the house). I have at least a hundred programs installed on the host OS I'm using right now, and install updates to old software, or download new software for mods every other week; it seems like slipstream installs might have only a very limited short term impact. The way I understand it so far is that you install the OS with security updates built into it (I'd like to find one of those any way so that I don't have to go through the five hour update--I already have a Win7 x64 Professional license with less than three seat activations used). Once it's installed, get it updated, install the programs that you want, uninstall the features you don't, and create a second slipstreamed ISO. Install that, then create a slipstreamed ISO out of it, and install that final ISO.
I'd also like to get a RAM disk Win7 x64 installation. Not sure where to start with that. It's part of a bigger project of finding ideal IO, and it's a fork of another discussion on SSD performance; this thread is more about the technique of getting it installed, and I might start a new thread for that part of the discussion. http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1769029
I'd also like to figure out partitioning, with putting as much of the OS in its own smaller partition as possible, with as many programs and associated program data as possible on the larger partition. I have some legacy games that insist on residing on the primary C drive; other programs try to put some sort of data in a location other than the destination folder, like Application Data.
I've never had good success finding out which services are essential, and which ones can be disabled or excluded in a slipstreamed install without breaking functionality (for example, Homegroup sharing does not work between any of the four Win7 systems in the house). I have at least a hundred programs installed on the host OS I'm using right now, and install updates to old software, or download new software for mods every other week; it seems like slipstream installs might have only a very limited short term impact. The way I understand it so far is that you install the OS with security updates built into it (I'd like to find one of those any way so that I don't have to go through the five hour update--I already have a Win7 x64 Professional license with less than three seat activations used). Once it's installed, get it updated, install the programs that you want, uninstall the features you don't, and create a second slipstreamed ISO. Install that, then create a slipstreamed ISO out of it, and install that final ISO.
I'd also like to get a RAM disk Win7 x64 installation. Not sure where to start with that. It's part of a bigger project of finding ideal IO, and it's a fork of another discussion on SSD performance; this thread is more about the technique of getting it installed, and I might start a new thread for that part of the discussion. http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1769029