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    HP G60 and Windows 7

    Discussion in 'HP' started by acarnes, Oct 21, 2009.

  1. acarnes

    acarnes Notebook Enthusiast

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    My dad owns an HP G60. He hates Vista so we tried to get xp on it with absolutely no luck. It wouldn't install or work on the machine whatsoever. When my dad heard about windows 7, he got high hopes for his laptop once again. He wants to get windows 7 on it but with our recent failure, I thought I would ask people what they thought first. So NBR experts, will windows 7 install on an HP G60?
     
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    hypdotspec Notebook Evangelist

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    Absolutely.

    I have it running flawlessly on my G60.

    Only driver I needed to install was the Realtek card reader; Windows Update picked up everything else!
     
    hypdotspec, Oct 21, 2009
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    acarnes Notebook Enthusiast

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    where did you get the driver? from the realtek site? thank you by the way =)
     
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    hypdotspec Notebook Evangelist

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    support.hp.com


    HP has Windows 7 32/64b drivers up and ready to go :)
     
    hypdotspec, Oct 22, 2009
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    acarnes Notebook Enthusiast

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    okay thanks!
     
    acarnes, Oct 23, 2009
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    newsposter Notebook Virtuoso

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    XP pre-dates the G60/70 laptops by a few years. Even with XP-SP3 it's NOT surprising that you couldn't get it to load. There is probably a missing mass storage driver. This problem could easily be solved with a F6 floppy disk that has a copy of the correct Intel XP driver for the ICH9/10 chipset.

    Win7 has come out approx 1 year after the G60/70 machines. You can bet that although the on-DVD driver library is probably 90 days out of date (frozen by MSFT that long ago) there are on-board drivers for the Intel chipset and ICH of your dads machine.

    Short version: An OS that is older than a current generation laptop will probably NOT have the correct drivers unless you (easily) prepare a supplemental disk for use at the beginning of the OS install. An OS (such as Win7) that is newer than your laptop will almost certainly have a suitable driver available on-board.

    Once booted and installed, Microsoft Update will probably offer to download and install fully updated drivers for either XP or Win7.
     
    newsposter, Oct 23, 2009
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