Windows 7 won't install

Britton30 said:

The question of the legal COA was never answered. I don't think a drive really "cares" what OS in has on it, they are dumb that way.

I doubt we'll ever hear from the OP again.

The hard drive wasn't old, in fact, I don't know how old it was anyway. All I know is that "system requirements" only went up to Windows Vista and didn't have support for Windows 7.

So, um, what was the hard drive?

You assertion your drive wasn't compatible makes no sense. It however, may have been bad.

The bad hard drive thing may be true. I don't know if it is though... but how does that not make sense? Well... I think it does... I mean- if that doesn't make sense, then what does?

shadowboy1795 said:

... but how does that not make sense? Well... I think it does... I mean- if that doesn't make sense, then what does?

Take those "System Requirements" you see associated with products with a grain of salt. A rather big grain when it comes to computer hardware.

The "System Requirements" listed for hard drives might be better stated as something like: "Requires installation into a device equipped with SATA data and SATA power connectors". Might need a bit more info as I imagine there are some devices out there that use hard drives yet have no facility to initialize, partition, etc. w7 can deal with hard drives, whether they are bare or not.

Now if it said something like "Requires 2 AA alkaline batteries (not included)".... :)