Hard Drive, Aloha question.

[AaMania]

Might be a shot in the dark, but are there any companies out there that I could just purchase some hard drives that hare loaded with POSReady2009, and are all ready to go? I have a few towers (paired with touch screens acting as POS Systems)
Trying to find a easy way to get over this WIN XP situation quickly and effortlessly as possible. I figure pop in hard drive with POSReady on it and get drivers, config iber, terminals and etc. installed to it then pull out old WIN XP HDD and make new HDD Primary boot.

They way I have it written on paper and in my head seems like this particular application will work, am I wrong in this logic or should I be looking another avenue.

or Will i be better of with a complete WIN7 Build for BOH (1PC) and FOH (4PC's)

Running Aloha TableService 6.2.15 ( So I know I am maxed at WIN 7 32 Bit.)

Thanks,
Aaron

 

[AlohaRoss]

What kind of terminals do you have?
Some requirements for Posready2009
1 gig ram.
4 gig udoc or atleast 20 gig harddrive
I use the P1220's and they run just great with posready2009
the P1510 will not run as well as they are capped at 512 memory


As for Back office I have clients with win7 running 5.3.3 as they are to cheap to upgrade.

If you just want to get harddrives for radiant P1220's you can replace with everything ready to go, reach me from my website and I can work something out with you. Tell me how many you need and I can get them ready and ship.

AlohaRoss

http://www.needalohahelp.com

 

[AaMania]

Thank Ross,

I am walking into a bit mess here FOH wise,
Currently:
2 Custom Built Desktop towers W/ Celeron's @ 2.0GHZ and 240MB RAM, and 75GB HDD unsure of MoBO (I figure I'll rebuild from scratch instead of trying to find parts etc.... i'd age these at 7+years both with Win XP Embedded)
1 PosiFlex TP6000 (A Dinosaur) Had to EBay this a few years ago to replace a sudden crashed term. Win 98 (Will definitely have to replace this one)
1 Shuttle S167X2 with MS Windows Embedded POSReady2009 which I and happy to say is working well (and will remain untouched)...

BOH is a WIN XP Pro machine with a Pentium Dual core @ 2.20GHZ, w/ 1GB RAM (listed .99GB in system properties..)

I already plan on building a new BOH with WIN 7 32 Bit, since in a earlier post i believe you mentioned that my current Aloha 6.2.15 will run fine on that.. (I'll probably build a mid level system Dual cores, 2+GB RAM etc...)

Since I already have 3 separate working touchscreen and three USB MSR Readers, I would opt for custom building three more boxes.

Can I do a HDD swap on the two custom boxes I have (provided I can up the ram on them)
and I know I have to completely replace the Posi TP6000.

Your thoughts....

Thanks,

Aaron

 

[AlohaRoss]

Here is a bit of a trick for moving harddrives between mother boards.
Go to device manager and change the IDE controllers driver to use standard IDE controller, instead of the correct one. And ten turn off computer. When you move the drive it will say, "found new hardware" and install the correct IDE controller for that mother board.

For a far less headache you could purchase 3 refurbished P1220 off of ebay for around $200-$300. If you upgrade to a gig of memory on them I have refresh times under 1 minute.

AlohaRoss

http://www.needalohahelp.com