Windows 7 32bit on Intel Celeron N2840

[georgegl]

The Lenovo S20 - 30 laptop has an Intel Celeron N2840 cpu. (a 64bit cpu) And 2GB RAM. And probably UEFI bios.
And Windows 8.1 with Bing 64bit preinstalled.

I'd like to install Windows 7 32bit. (Home Premium). A clean install.
Is this possible? In the hardware level, is this possible?

 

[whs]

1. Check in disk management whether the C partition is encrypted. This may be an instant Go device.

2. You probably have only a 32GB disk. I think W8.1 is a lot better on that. It is small and fast.

3. Check your BIOS whether you can shut off Secure Boot and set it to Legacy Made.

I think you will have more trouble than it is worth changing the OS. I have a couple of similar devices like that (Asus T100 and Asus X205). They run perfectly with W8.1.

 

[georgegl]

I had 320Gb HDD. (and, you describe the HP Spread 14)
My problem is that I want to install the Wordperfect 6.2 for DOS. Impossible to install it in 64bit systems. And I do not want to use vDos or other emulators... This is the reason I want Windows 7 32bit. Or even better Windows 98x... But this is impossible I think.
I can replace the hdd with a very small ssd of about 8GB or even smaller. A 2GB sd card through sata converter ecc, but...
I am searchin' for a very light word processor machine and now with the chromebooks are a lot of them out there but probably none of them compatible with what I want.
I had find also some vintage 7 kilos laptops on ebay but Jesus!

 

[whs]

Why don't you run W98 in Virtual. For W7 you don't have enough RAM. Give W98 512MB of RAM. W8 32bit can very well run in the remaining 1.5GBs. I have that exact configuration running Linux in virtual on my X205 that also has 2GB of RAM. Here is a tutorial I made that gives you all the instructions (click on the tile on my OneDrive I linked). My example there is running W10 and W8.1, but it would be the same for W98.

 

[badcrc]

Why don't you run W98 in Virtual.

You beat me to it. Here's a screenshot of Wordperfect 6.2 for DOS running in Windows 98 in VMware.



It's kinda dire. I'd say stick with 8.1 Bing and use Office.

 

[whs]

And if you don't want to buy the MS Office (which I think is worth it's money), use Libre Office. That is a fine office suite too. I use that in Linux.