sephkane
I want to purchase a computer off of Craigslist, but I need to be sure it is Windows 7 compatible. Here is a bit of info about it:
Biostar mATX Motherboard
Celeron Dual-Core E1200
2GB DDR2 Ram
320GB Hard Drive
Win XP pro
DVD±RW Burner with Dual/Double Layer Support
That's all the info he gives. As you can see, it's not much info. I am going to call him and ask him a few things about the computer. What questions should I ask the seller to be sure if his computer can run Windows 7? From that list, do you think it can already run Windows 7?
Here are more details of the motherboard. http://www.compubees.com/biostar-g31d-m7-core-2-duo-intel-g31-ddr2-800_331_11523.html
Will the built-in graphics card work with Windows 7?
Answer
yes, but the celeron processor might hold you back a little
also ask about the graphics card...windows aero (what makes vista and 7 shiny) is part of what makes them not run on older systems (in my opinion its almost the whole reason you can install it on older systems)
you can turn off all the shiny-ness and spinners and whistles. and make it look like the classic windows set up. that will of course make it run faster....
yes, but the celeron processor might hold you back a little
also ask about the graphics card...windows aero (what makes vista and 7 shiny) is part of what makes them not run on older systems (in my opinion its almost the whole reason you can install it on older systems)
you can turn off all the shiny-ness and spinners and whistles. and make it look like the classic windows set up. that will of course make it run faster....
Computer help with installing Windows 7 OS?!?
Jack Spice
I'm buying a new Western Digital Hard Disk Drive for my 1 year and 5 month old computer and I'm also installing Windows 7 Home Premium on the new Hard Drive. I had recieved this error message when installing Windows 7 on an old Hard Drive:
"Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks."
When I get the new hard drive and install it inside my pc, and if this error message comes up on the new hard drive, how would install Windows 7 on the new drive? What I do to change the MBR to GPT thing so that I can install Windows 7? Where do I go? What I do I do?
Please help!!! I'm not computer smart and have basic knowledge on computers. No experience or expertise in this MBR or GPT stuff.
Here's my computer if you need more info on my computer tech specs:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&docname=c03135882
Answer
MBR is the standard partitioning scheme that's been used on hard disks since the PC first came out. It supports 4 primary partitions per hard drive, and a maximum partition size of 2TB.
GPT disks are new, and are readable only by Windows Server 2003 SP1, Windows Vista, 7, 8 (all versions), and Windows XP x64 Edition. The GPT disk itself can support a volume up to 2^64 blocks in length. (For 512-byte blocks, this is 9.44 ZB - zettabytes. 1 ZB is 1 billion terabytes). It can also support theoretically unlimited partitions.
Windows restricts these limits further to 256 TB for a single partition (NTFS limit), and 128 partitions.
Only Itanium systems running Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, 7or 8 systems with an EFI BIOS can boot from a GPT disk. The other operating systems mentioned earlier can use GPT disks as data disks but not boot disks.
To change MBR into GTP you can take help from this link below:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725671.aspx
MBR is the standard partitioning scheme that's been used on hard disks since the PC first came out. It supports 4 primary partitions per hard drive, and a maximum partition size of 2TB.
GPT disks are new, and are readable only by Windows Server 2003 SP1, Windows Vista, 7, 8 (all versions), and Windows XP x64 Edition. The GPT disk itself can support a volume up to 2^64 blocks in length. (For 512-byte blocks, this is 9.44 ZB - zettabytes. 1 ZB is 1 billion terabytes). It can also support theoretically unlimited partitions.
Windows restricts these limits further to 256 TB for a single partition (NTFS limit), and 128 partitions.
Only Itanium systems running Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, 7or 8 systems with an EFI BIOS can boot from a GPT disk. The other operating systems mentioned earlier can use GPT disks as data disks but not boot disks.
To change MBR into GTP you can take help from this link below:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725671.aspx
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