Is it XP or Vista? If you are using the former, then you will have to make use of third party tools such as Acronis, Partition Magic, or the free, GPL Gparted. Your problem could be a driver issue; however, with that older hardware doing a clean install on a separate partition, there should not be any real issues as far as drivers. However, you do make mention of one thing that I have not necessarily heard of. Which PIII processor are you using?
Again, the published minimum processor is does not make mention of processor family, but I would figure they mean anything in the P4 family one that has a clock speed of at least 1 GHz. On all machines that I have tested and used, all of the processors were in the P4 family or better.
The slowest processor, memory combination I have used was a P4 1. The older laptops that I have Windows 7 installed are single boot systems in which I have the entire hard drive, one machine with a 40GB hard drive and the other with a 60GB hard drive, is allocated for the OS.
I then create and format the last 5GB for drivers and settings storage for when I have to reload at the beta expiration. In each case, Windows 7—both 32bit and 64bit—has installed perfectly. If Vista works, then you should be able to get Windows 7 working just fine. When you do the install, are you upgrading your Vista installation or doing a clean, custom install? Well, you are definitely doing it the right way. Have you tried it on one of your newer machines? How about inside of VM?
At least you can them become familiar with the intricacies of the new interface. Darien and Ventsislav - Appreciate the help - but please read my earlier comments. Yes I have tried on newer machines - I understand how Win 7 works fairly well.
The point is to get in on the older one, which if you look in all sorts of web forums, people are doing reasonably satisfactorilly, on machines less powerful than mine. So saying it can't be done; well it seems many have. It's of interest to me because I've found with some serious tuning, even my old Dell now approaching 10 yrs can do most everything with XP Pro - runs Office , huge documents, spreadsheets and models, edits large movies, very fast internet connection, all sorts of video playback.
It can be a little slow, but it works very well, and has a higher res screen x than most notebooks. I'd love to keep it a bit and run Windows 7. Maybe D's space issue on install is the key - or maybe there is something about the dual boot? As I recall when I did load successfully Vista, I instdalled to the primary and wiped the whole machine.
It should not matter vs. I'm just stumped, and having run 20 odd machines for years, I do know what I'm doing. Something subtle is wrong- unless a lot of people are lying. But it's also odd that I get no error messages - it just hangs. Points a little toward the HD space issue, as you could imagine such behavior as the machine ran out of space.
It's a bit absurd a. Once it's in, and stable, I could repartition and remove excess space. First I can run Vista on same machine, and second there are tons of stories on the web about people running it on even slower weaker machines.
Why given these 2 facts, does Win7 hang???? Is there some internal hardware threshold test Win7 uses to decide whether to proceed? If so, could it be overridden with a command prompt at install? Pump up the memory. I just hit me after rereading your original post.
Does your video adapter share main memory? The same holds true for a Video adapter using 64MB of shared memory. Although Windows 7 has been successfully installed on pokier hardware, those installations may have had the entire MB allocated for OS use as they may have made use of discreet graphics cards that contain dedicated graphics memory.
If your system is one that uses shared memory, which a lot did around the time this system was current, then Mr. ESys said: Darien and Ventsislav - Appreciate the help - but please read my earlier comments. I believe your real issue is that your video memory is subtracting from your actual installed RAM. I cannot actually say what you will see as each BIOS differs, but you will be able to decipher what is going on. Another method for checking your usable RAM is to boot with memtest Although this is a memory tester, it will reveal how much actual RAM you have available after an amount is allocated to other hardware resources such as video adapters.
If you boot with memtest86, you will see a field that reports your actual, usable RAM minus the amount allocated for your video card. If it is less than , then you will be out of luck.
Although MVP Ronnie Vernon has all of the real answers I have made several notes form some of his responses , there is one thing in which I disagree. Here are the stats for all three operating systems, with memory usage measured after all update operations had completed and the system had been idle for at least one hour:.
With identical configurations, Windows 7 was dramatically faster at starting up and shutting down than Vista, and some routine tasks that would grind the Vista machine to a halt completed without incident on the Windows 7 machine.
On the Vista system,. I suspect that when Vista was being designed, this was an afterthought, with the notion that cheap RAM and hard disks would make those machines obsolete. Why does Windows 7 use so much less disk space than Vista?
A very small amount of the savings much less than I expected is in program code. The biggest savings is from the preallocated volume shadow storage space, which holds System Restore points and backs up files via the Previous Versions feature. On my Vista virtual machine, this feature was using more than 4. Under Windows 7, the system reserved less than MB. This attention to performance when resources are less than expected on a modern desktop PC potentially has positive implications for netbooks and other cheap PCs.
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Jul 23, 63 17 0. Jul 29, 7, 2, Just for fun! The result: It's working!!!!! Ok the display resolution is just x because of the 4 MB!! But installed Office and working just as on XP!! The final is just that I'm more than happy with Windows 7! Lenmaer MDL Addicted. Jul 3, 3 Aug 30, 2 0 0. It will run with mb ram but don't expect that it will work smooth. You will experience lag and hang with the system because lack ram..
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