Windows 7 question for the masses
Friend of mine wanted me to upgrade his mothers computer to Windows 7 and 4gb of RAM. Got started tonight and discovered they only have a 32gb IDE HDD.
Windows 7 requires 16gb of space for the x86 version. Has anyone here tried to install Win7 on such a small HDD and if so, how did it work out? |
It will work fine but I hope they plan on using it strictly as an internet browser only machine.
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I know the machine would function better with Win7 than the bloated up XP but didn't want to make it worse by putting it on such a small HDD. Was really surprised that this old of a computer actually had a SATA HDD too.
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you said in the original post that it was an IDE.
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hell, he has to know someone that has a used hard drive thats bigger then that. i have old computers in my garage with 120 gig hard drives.
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As was said before, they better never use it for anything but an internet browser. And load the Windows Security Essentials. Pretty lightweight and functional for a free antivirus.
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Yes, I said CD ROM. |
Are you sure it truly has a 32GB hard drive? That seems really odd. By the time drives that size were coming out, they had mostly shifted to multiples of 10 (10GB, 20GB, 30GB, 40GB, etc.).
And for that matter, what computer with a hard drive that small can support 4GB of RAM? And for that matter, why wouldn't you just leave it on XP? |
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Is it a SSD or something? |
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This. I would check to see if your looking at a 32gb partition or something. |
I believe Windows 7 require at least 1 GB RAM and Windows Xp can work well even with 512 ones.
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Stick with XP, the WINSXS directory alone will grow larger than that hard drive within 6-12 months.
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hell for that matter, put an older version of Ubuntu on there. Probably more games preinstalled than Windows 7.
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As opposed to waking up to see that Windows installed updates, closed your open processes and restarted on its own?
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XP was and is a fine OS. Like was said, it ain't flashy but it's solid. The POS computer I'm on right now is running it just fine.
I'm curious about the Ubuntu. Loaded it on a really old laptop just to play and it was very light and didn't use much for resources at all. I think it's a good option, especially since it's free. Just a little different on the interface, but for a regular user, it should be just fine. |
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