Upgrading XP X32 to Win 7 X32

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Smokepole50

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I am doing a fresh install of Win 7 X32 on a Dell D830 XP system. I will be installing a new 500 GB HD and 4 GB of ram. The issue is this was a company computer and the old HD was wiped with boot nuke so I have no drivers. Will I be able to use a program like driver detective with the fresh Win 7 install and load all my correct drivers without any issues? As well the IT guys had Dell disable the blue tooth chip do I will need to flash it to work properly, driver detective did this for me with a D630 running a re-installed Vista program, will it have any issues with Win 7?

I have also read about video driver issues with Win-7 and old XP laptops, is this a concern or do the Nivida drivers work properly when installed?

Thanks for the help.
 
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The D830 runs Windows 7 just fine. You can use the available Vista drivers (same driver model), although you may have to run the installers in compatibility mode.
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Phillip Corcoran

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As the Dell D830 originally had XP on it, first you need to check the Dell Support website to see if they have any Windows 7 drivers for that model. If they don't have any, your plan to put Windows 7 on it is a non-starter. I think they'll have Windows Vista drivers for it so they may be okay but no way of knowing for sure until you try them - - some may work, others may not.
 
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Smokepole50

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Looking at Dell's web site it seems that Win 7 might not be the direction I want to take unless I don't want various aspects like blue-tooth to work. So were can I find a cheap legit version of Vista?
 
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Thanks for the help. Now I need to figure out why the DDR2 667 Mhz memory I just bought won't work. Trying to go from 2 GB to 4 GB and it won't work in either Latitude D630 of D830.
 
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