W7 on W2K as dual boot experience?

[K G G]

I never bothered with Vista and rather leave my XP machine alone (the wife messes it up enough :) ).

Has anyone tried to install W7 on a W2K machine? Anything I need to consider?

Cheers
KGG

[SpywareDr]

Microsoft.com > Download the Windows 7 Beta
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx[quote]Minimum recommended specs call for: 1 GHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor


1 GB of system memory


16 GB of available disk space


Support for DirectX 9 graphics with 128 MB memory (to enable the Aero theme)


DVD-R/W Drive


Internet access (to download the Beta and get updates)

[SuperSparks]

As with all MS minimum specs, I'd advise doubling everything unless you really want to spend 3 hours waiting for Notepad to open :D

[Broni]

Ditto.

[K G G]

WEllll... thanks for the min req's guys - I read those as well...

My post was more relating to experience installing W7 on a W2K machine.
Anyone in this regards ?

[Train]

Msi- KT4V mobo
2500 Barton - 1.8 GHz
768 MB of ram
GF2 32 MB AGP video card.

Takes a long while to boot, but does fine after that.

[K G G]

I looked into installing W7 via a virtual machine and found several links (VMWare, M$ versions etc). However, all seem to require an OS of XP or newer.
Does anyone know of a VM app that runs already under W2K?

[SuperSparks]

In a word no. Virtualisation has really only become seriously viable with the advent of more powerful hardware, and because Win2000 generally runs on older machines, I don't think they ever bothered writing the necessary drivers for it.

[SuperSparks]

I tell a lie, VMWare Workstation, which is what I use mostly, apparently will run happily enough on Win200 SP4. It is $ware, though worth every penny IMO - it makes all the others look like toys.

Here's the manual, so you can see for youself:

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/ws65_manual.pdf

[Steve R Jones]

When you say Win2k machine...what exactly do you mean?
Isn't it a regular ol computer that happens to have Windows 2000 installed on it?

Does it meet or exceed the min requirements fro Win 7?

[SpywareDr]

Windows 2000 Professional minimum system requirements: 133 MHz or more Pentium microprocessor (or equivalent).
32 megabytes (MB) of RAM is the minimum supported. 64 MB is the recommended minimum
2 gigabyte (GB) hard disk that has 650 MB of free space
VGA or higher-resolution monitor
Keyboard
Mouse or compatible pointing device (optional)
CD or DVD drive
High-density 3.5-inch disk drive, unless your CD drive supports starting the Setup program from a CD

System requirements for Microsoft Windows 2000 operating systems
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304297

[Broni]

No kidding? :D

[Train]

133 MHz vs 1 GHz

Quite a difference.

[SpywareDr]

Right? And, 32MB vs 1GB. (32 is the square root of 1,024. :))

[K G G]

It's a "regular old puter" running W2K PRO. And yes it meets the min specs (see my sig)
:)
KGG

[Train]

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800 (65W) Windsor
Corsair XMS2 4x512GB dual channel DDR2 (PC2 6400)

Plenty of oomph.

[K G G]

Thought so.. HW wise... has anyone run a dual boot with W2K PRO and W7 yet?

[SuperSparks]

I honestly doubt that there will be all that many, because the vast majority of W2K installations are going to be on hardware that isn't suitable for W7. But in your case there really shouldn't be any issues with doing it.