Install Windows 7 beta on Portege M800

Hi - I was wondering if there was potential problems by installing windows 7? I just bought an m800 but I want to get rid of VIsta

Also can I use hardware virtualization on this machine? I need XPmode

Thank you

I can see the virtualization topic of your second post so we can chat about it here.

Back to Win7. Potential problems? Strange question. You know that Win7 is still not released and Toshiba didn't start official support for it. This means that no driver or Toshiba specific tool is available for download. You can try to install stuff of Vista, but above all, it will not work.

For example, you can install it and see what it looks like, but you will never be able to have fully installed OS with all the necessary components such as drivers, tools and utilities.

The choice is yours. ;)

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