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Re: How do I install windows 7 on my HP 620 that already has Linux SUSE Enterprise 11 running on it (2344 Views)
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How do I install windows 7 on my HP 620 that already has Linux SUSE Enterprise 11 running on it

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‎07-25-2011 02:40 PM - edited ‎07-25-2011 02:41 PM

I am using a HP 620 notebook which has Linux SUSE Enterprise Desktop installed on it from the factory. However, I wish to install Windows 7 on the notebook but I am unable to do because the format of the hard disk on the notebook is not in the NTFS format which is required by windows.

 

I will like to kno how to partition and format the hard disk into the NTFS format in order to install windows 7 on the notebook.

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Re: How do I install windows 7 on my HP 620 that already has Linux SUSE Enterprise 11 running on it

‎07-25-2011 08:29 PM

general steps to getting the job done

 

1 get a portable hard drive and do a FULL DRIVE IMAGE (aka Ghost the disk)

2 download the Gparted cd and then very carefully (make sure you don't remove any kind of bios partitions) reset and reformat your linux partitions to be NTFS.

 

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buy a replacement hard drive and do this the safe way (heck i would bet that for not to much you can buy a Win7 preinstalled disk from HP With a legit win 7 key "for free")

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