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   relic to cheapdave@home.com   
   Re: Problem installiing Windows 7   
   17 Feb 10 10:13:50   
   
   From: relic211@cjb.net   
      
    wrote in message   
   news:lJqdnRjXw4er5ObWnZ2dnUVZ_tGdnZ2d@giganews.com...   
   > Have a two year old desktop computer  AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor   
   > 4600+ AM2  with 4 Gig's ram.  Recently had a problem with hard drive....so   
   > decided to take to someone  to fix...He replaced hard drive, I also asked   
   > him to install Windows 7 to try out (had been running XP) but he is having   
   > a   
   > problem.   This is email from him explaining situation...........   
   >   
   >   
   > "there seems like theres a lot of people complaining about windows seven   
   > not   
   > installing, particularly on AMD dual cores that use hypertransport.  it   
   > seems kind of weird, but win 7 just wont install, i have another copy of   
   > win7 to try to install it but im not thinking that's going to work either.   
   > what is a definite though is this computer will run Xp perfectly.  if you   
   > just want to go with win xp home, i need your license key, which is   
   > usually   
   > attached to the case, but isn't on this pc.   
   >   
   > im going to try to install 7 on this pc once again on thursday, but i   
   > probably wont have it ready to go until friday.   
   >   
   > to sum it all up, i cant get 7 to work, XP does work, and if you want to   
   > just use xp i need your key."   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > Does anyone know if Windows 7 can be installed on this computer?   
      
   Since you don't even provide what kind of error you've encountered, I can   
   only assume that you're a troll. Go away.   
      
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