As much as I would hate installing Win7 at a Linux installfest, we could wipe the drive and do so assuming you have legitimate Win7 Install media.  The real questions would be whether it needs a secure wipe, what is the hardware (to make sure it is adequate), and would you want us to install VirtualBox and Ubuntu (either as host or guest OS).

While it is possible to install a Win7 without legitimate install media, I would not wish to do so.


On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 10:37:37AM -0700, Adam McCullough wrote:
> Almost every error, crash, problem, or compile problem I've come across has
> had at least some discussion of it, often including a solution. If not,
> you're already on the plug mailing list, so you have a wealth of people
> here willing to help you out, provide expertise, advice, and try to search
> for a solution yourself. They're at least as good as what you'll find at
> Red Seven or other places.
>
> Newegg, Frys, and other places are good sources of replacements/upgrades if
> the problem is in the hardware.
>
> That's why, even though I liked the concept of a linux support store, I
> never had reason to be a customer. Any problem they could fix was either
> one I could already fix myself (with plenty of googling and trial and
> error), or one I couldn't afford to fix myself, much less hire someone else
> to do the same thing (hardware errors).

What you're talking about has very little to do with what I'm looking
for. There is no problem, let alone a hardware problem. I simply don't
have the time to the research right now, so I need someone to wipe the
drive and install w7 for her. Later, if I can convince her to abandon M$
completely, I can probably wipe the drive and install debian or more
probably ubuntu with xfce. From what I can see, the bios, or whatever
passes for one, has no provision to boot off a cd or dvd. That means doing
the whole operation off of a flash drive.

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