Windows 7 or 8 on a lenovo t42?

[dude11]

Hey! my brother got an very old laptop, and he asked me to install win 7 on it..
but im not sure it can run it.. so my Question is can a laptop so old run win 7?

specs=
15,1 screen size
1 gb ram
100 gb hdd
1,7 ghz single core
and hd 9600 64 mb

uhh.. and can i just use ram from my asus n53j? normal 204 pin?

 

[corkyg]

Apparently it can with certain caveats:

http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T61-and-prior-T-series-ThinkPad/t42-drivers-and-windows-7/td-p/239611

I run 7 on my T60.

 

[whitequark]

Try it and see. From the specs given it ought to run Windows7 without any problems, although it's towards the low end of the requirements, so it might be a bit slow when running lots of programs.

Interestingly you might prefer to try running Windows8 on it; Windows was substantively rewritten in order to work better on low-end devices like tablets for Windows8, so you might find (counter-intutively) that upgrading past Windows7 might be better for your old machine than going just to Win7.

If you've just got a new laptop you should be formatting and reinstalling the whole OS anyway, and if there's some good reason why Windows won't be able to run on that machine, the OS installer will tell you and abort.