GordonThree wrote:
Not to be insulting, but a computer that is so old to only have a CD drive will likely not run Windows 7 very well. If the disc drive is out of date, likely so will the processor, the memory, etc.
Yeah, that is an insulting comment..
I HAVE PERSONALLY been successful at loading and running Win7 on a P4 hyperthreaded 3.2 ghz processor with as little as 2Gig of ram.. Found no speed degradation with W7 vs XP (which was originally loaded on that PC)
In fact MS specs are surprisingly light and that may be due to MS pulling out a lot of older legacy drivers which is no longer supported..
The only down side I can see is if the PC they are loading it on happens to have a unsupported sound, video, nic or system board chipset (a lot of them are NOT supported).
I would try loading it on a separate HD just in case they can not find drivers for their hardware.
To load it, they will need a DVD drive which CAN be an external USB type. Might have to set the BIOS to use the USB DVD drive as the FIRST BOOT DEVICE.
