萬法唯心 – Impermanence » Final Year Project

Looks like I can’t run away from Windows. Just handed in the Final Report for the Final year project yesterday and now thinking about the presentation on the coming Monday. So I need to do some demostration of the program which I developed and it requires

Matlab
Quartus II – v7.1 Web Edition (Free)
ModelSim – VHDL Simili (Free)

The problem is that Quartus II Web Edition is only free for Windows but not Linux, so after thinking about it for a long time I decided to install Windows again. The process isn’t that straight forward but found some very useful tools. I only had a 40GB hard drives with only 8GB free, so I used that for Windows but after the installation I find out I don’t have enough space to install all the program that I need to install. So I asked Terry to let me his 120GB 7200rpm hard drives, that solved the space problem but I didn’t want to reinstall everything and so I find a software for migrating hard drives called:

Acronis Migrate Easy

It’s a great program I have to say and it comes with 15 days trail! Everything works great and it handles both Linux and Windows partition without any problem. It also allows manually adjusting the size of the new partitions. After the migration, everything works, quite a surprise to me actually as I can still remember last time when I try to clone a hard drive.

It has been quite a while since I have Windows on my laptop (Tecra S1) now, just for fun I tried the Vista Transformation Pack by WindowsX. That also works without any problem, quite a interesting program, but mainly it just brings a nicer interface to XP. But be warn, there are always risks with this kind of program. Anyway, I’m quite happy with the migration especially thanks to Acronis for the excellent tool and Terry for letting me his hard drive. Linux will still be the main OS that I will be using and I don’t think I need a new computer any time soon .