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installing windows 7 over windows 98

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  • 17-01-2010 12:12pm
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    kingofbeers
    Registered Users Posts: 178 ✭✭


    hi gang,
    my mate has a packard bell pc with windows 98 and is wondering if he can do a full install of windows 7 over it. any help much appreciated.


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    GrumPy
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    98?! Packard Bell?! I'd say Win 7 minimum recommended spec would be far too high for that machine by the sounds of it. Sounds like it's a tad old.


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    PogMoThoin
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    Anything running Windows 98 is a dinosaur by todays standards


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    DarrenMSP
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    GrumPy wrote: »
    98?! Packard Bell?! I'd say Win 7 minimum recommended spec would be far too high for that machine by the sounds of it.

    Case and point -

    Minimum hardware requirements for Windows 7

    32-bit
    Processor - 1 GHz 32-bit processor
    Memory (RAM) - 1 GB of RAM
    Graphics Card - DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM driver model 1.0 (For Aero)
    HDD free space - 16 GB of available disk space

    64-bit
    Processor - 1 GHz 64-bit processor
    Memory (RAM) - 2 GB of RAM
    Graphics Card - DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM driver model 1.0 (For Aero)
    HDD free space - 20 GB of available disk space

    If you got an 98 PC that meets those specs, I'll be impressed


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    A windows 7 License is far more valuable than a windows 98 PC

    Unless you downgraded from XP to 98 the PC is probably too old to let 7 run , yes you could put windows 95 on a 386 with 4 MB ram, but it took 16 minutes to boot (and that was with no antivirus or other stuff running in the background)


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    biko
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    Ask him to download and run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor to see if the PC is ready for Windows 7. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1B544E90-7659-4BD9-9E51-2497C146AF15&displaylang=en


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    Zapho
    Registered Users Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭Zapho


    Yup, that would certainly be a waste of a win7 license. It would be more worth your
    while buying a 2nd hand PC for €200 and putting win7 on that.


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