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03-08-2013, 07:50 PM | Topic Starter |
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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? |
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03-08-2013, 07:57 PM | #2 |
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It will work fine but I hope they plan on using it strictly as an internet browser only machine.
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03-08-2013, 07:59 PM | #3 |
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Yeah, she only uses it for the internet and playing her solitaire games that come with the OS.
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03-08-2013, 08:00 PM | #4 |
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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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Is it a SSD or something? |
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03-08-2013, 08:05 PM | #6 |
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you said in the original post that it was an IDE.
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03-08-2013, 08:37 PM | #7 |
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Heh, yes I did. Accident. It was a Sata. I had a few 80gb IDEs in my basement but they don't have a spare IDE connection I can work with. The interior design doesn't allow me to use the IDE cable for the CD Rom drive.
Yes, I said CD ROM.
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03-08-2013, 08:32 PM | #8 |
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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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03-08-2013, 08:37 PM | #9 |
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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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03-08-2013, 09:53 PM | #10 |
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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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This. I would check to see if your looking at a 32gb partition or something. |
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Doesn't make a difference, but 32GB is a specific size that didn't jive with everything else you were saying. Or at least it made us think you might have misunderstood something.
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03-09-2013, 01:42 PM | #14 |
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Sorry. I got a little touchy there.
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03-08-2013, 10:45 PM | #15 |
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I believe Windows 7 require at least 1 GB RAM and Windows Xp can work well even with 512 ones.
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