My colleague has a Dell Inspiron 1501 Laptop running Vista Home. The HD was corrupted and he has not a rescue disc or a recent disc image of his HD. The HD has a small partition with the Manufacturer backup "to factory" configuration. It is not possible to boot from the HD He would like to purchase a new HD and is willing/checking to install Win7. 1. how to check which HD type is installed (IDE or SATA) - for replacement We checked the manual but couldn't find the type 2. The CPU is AMD Turion 64x2 1.60 gHz and and the RAM has 2x512K Which Win7 (i.e. Premium, Home, Ultimate, etc.) is the most compatible Thanks
looks like a sata drive based on (when you take out hd you can confirm) http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3359&review=Dell Inspiron 1501 if he was happy with Vista Home and had no use of other features in higher versions stay with Win7 Home
Thanks Cudny for your prompt answer. We will check for the HD He has not decided yet for Win7 program (if Home or premium) Just for my personal knowledge, are the different versions of Win7 requiring different hardware (i.e. more RAM in this case or faster processor), for example, installing win7 Ultimate in lieu of Home, will this laptop become sluggish
no, the same basic requirements for all versions but then certain feature require extra http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/get/system-requirements.aspx also run if pos http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/get/upgrade-advisor.aspx
