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  1. January 28th, 2009, 12:49 AM #1
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    W7 on W2K as dual boot experience?

    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?

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  2. January 28th, 2009, 04:35 AM #2
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    Microsoft.com > Download the Windows 7 Beta
    http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...-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)
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    As with all MS minimum specs, I'd advise doubling everything unless you really want to spend 3 hours waiting for Notepad to open
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    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 ?
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  7. January 28th, 2009, 10:01 PM #6
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    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.
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  8. January 31st, 2009, 06:26 PM #7
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    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?
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    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.
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    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
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    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?
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    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
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    133 MHz vs 1 GHz

    Quite a difference.
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    Right? And, 32MB vs 1GB. (32 is the square root of 1,024. )
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  17. February 3rd, 2009, 11:00 AM #15
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    It's a "regular old puter" running W2K PRO. And yes it meets the min specs (see my sig)

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