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Hard drives don't know anything about operating systems but operating systems know a lot about COA.
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.
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?You assertion your drive wasn't compatible makes no sense. It however, may have been bad.
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)".... :)