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HD Tach replacements for Vista, W7, Linux, and Mac OS X?

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Ant

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Nov 29, 2011, 5:33:12 AM11/29/11
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Hello.

Are there other benchmark disk softwares, with graphs, that will work in
the other OSes beside Windows 2000 SP4 and XP (the latest HD Tach
doesn't support them when I tried to run it on an updated 64-bit W7 HPE
machine yesterday)?

Thank you in advance. :)
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Ed Light

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Nov 29, 2011, 8:03:29 PM11/29/11
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I run HD Tach, free version in Win 7 by setting it's compatibility to XP.
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Krypsis

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Nov 30, 2011, 4:56:53 AM11/30/11
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On 30/11/2011 12:03 PM, Ed Light wrote:
> I run HD Tach, free version in Win 7 by setting it's compatibility to XP.

Isn't that option only available in Win 7 Professional or higher?

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Yousuf Khan

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Nov 30, 2011, 8:39:47 AM11/30/11
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You're thinking of XP Mode which is a full XP virtualization session.
Compatibility mode just lies to XP applications that it's still running
in XP, and fixes up some DLL's and API's to suit -- it's surprising how
often this little trick works, don't even need to go with the full
virtualization most times.

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Rod Speed

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Nov 30, 2011, 12:57:30 PM11/30/11
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Krypsis wrote
> Ed Light wrote

>> I run HD Tach, free version in Win 7 by setting it's compatibility to XP.

> Isn't that option only available in Win 7 Professional or higher?

Nope, thats the virtual XP running within Win7.


Arno

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Nov 30, 2011, 8:35:22 PM11/30/11
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And, as the wine-project shows, sometimes you can even do with
a completely different OS below the API-layer.

Arno

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Ed Light

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Dec 1, 2011, 2:27:46 AM12/1/11
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Just right-click on the shortcut or executable and choose
Properties/Compatibility.

Ant

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Dec 2, 2011, 4:28:18 PM12/2/11
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> I run HD Tach, free version in Win 7 by setting it's compatibility to XP.

Excellent. It works. My HDDs look good! :) I wonder what happened to
this developer though. :(

Now, I need to find other OSes and platforms similiar to this program.
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Ed Light

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Dec 2, 2011, 10:03:38 PM12/2/11
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On 12/2/2011 1:28 PM, Ant wrote:
>> I run HD Tach, free version in Win 7 by setting it's compatibility to XP.
>
> Excellent. It works. My HDDs look good! :) I wonder what happened to
> this developer though. :(

Yes, they had a good thing there.
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