Does the hard drive come with windows 7 already installed on this drive or do you have to do it yourself ?
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No, it doesn't. Hard drives bought separately from a computer don't generally have anything installed on them.
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I don't remember any. It is all on the drive. All I had to do was plug it in and it was recognized. Win7 64. Probably get it off of Seagate's web site too.
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it came with windows 8 pre-installed, but no physical disc. their is, however, a backup partition on the hard disc that can restore the system to factory defaults. I believe you can also burn a copy of the windows 8 backup DVD from the system recovery settings.
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It's preloaded with Windows 7 and comes with the restore disks for both Win 7 and 8. Hope this helps!
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Yes, I was using Windows 7 on the desktop computer that needed a new hard drive. This one works just fine.
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It comes with Windows 7 Professional 64 preinstalled (downrights) and it has the Windows 8 Pro 64-bit disc
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yes it was new. I believe it has a 1 year warranty. this one showed up on win 7 as two hard drives. 300 gig and then 100 mb. you have to go into disk management and change the partitions. its a good hard drive.
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Yes mine came with the recovery disk. Also fresh install of win 7 was on the pc.
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No it came with Windows 8, I then bought a copy of windows 7 a few weeks later due to problems and hassle of windows 8
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The Window 7 starter operating system is already bundled on the hard-drive. No further purchase is needed, but note that the OS is limited in a number of options but just fine for the averge user.
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Windows 7 Pro came pre-installed with upgrade disks for windows 8. The original 'load' was very basic with not many add-ons(nice).
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Altough I didn't try to install Windows 7 (I am waiting for Windows 8.1 so I can upgrade), I think there is no problem in installing Windows 7. I am not sure about the bay for the second hard drive. I will search on that as soon as possible.
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It's not an option with this version. You have to wipe the hard drive and install Windows 7 from scratch. So try and save your data off another drive or usb device.
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no it just came with windows xp installed and a recovery disc , I have since updated to windows 7
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I have installed Windows on hard drives that were brand new and just had the original factory formatting. Once started in the CDROM drive Windows would check the new drive for formatting, format if necessary, and then proceed to install itself on the new drive.
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The laptop typically comes with Windows 8 pre-installed. So, you would need a Windows 7 installation disk.
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Mine came loaded with Windows 7. May not be an accurate picture. Mine has no sticker on the front.