Can I use vista drivers or are there drivers Win 7 available, you want to upgrad DV6-129TX for Win 7,.

I have a Pavilion DV6129TX running Windows XP Pro. I intend to upgrade the disk to a 5400 RPM 100GB to a 7200 RPM 500 GB and also upgrade the operating system. I prefer Windows 7 32 bit but HP customer care advice was that there are no drivers to support hardware on this laptop to run win7. I have a copy of Vista spare laying around so I'm more than happy to use it as I know that Vista was an option on this laptop, but as I said, the 7 is my favorite option. Someone can tell me if I can switch to Win7 and use Vista drivers or are their drivers available to run Win7? I ran the Win7 Upgrade Advisor and the only program which, appears, will have problems is HP QuickPlay.

Look in the templates section of level 3 in theWin 7 Upgrade Guide , you should be fine with Win 7 better than Vista.

I've seen a few problems reported with hard disk of 500 GB on these older laptops. No problem with 320 GB.

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