Put Windows 7 on Packard Bell Easynote MX52-B-071

[cinusara]

Hello, I have a laptop that was given to me as a gift, it's a PACKARD BELL EASYNOTE_MX52-B-071 from 2008 and it came with Windows Vista Home, which is giving me problems. My question is whether I could upgrade it to Windows 7 Professional and if it wouldn't be too complicated to do so, if it's even possible. If possible, I would like to format it and do a clean installation. Thank you.

[Yorus]

Surely it can be done, the problem will be getting the drivers for Windows 7, which at least do not exist on the Packard Bell website.

What I would do is back up the recovery discs or an image of the current system to have it as a backup, and once that's done, pull up your sleeves and install Windows 7 clean, because until you try it, you won't know what Windows 7 has been able to detect (it's pretty good at this) and what not, and from what I see, you can get almost everything from the AMD website:

Main Features:

AMD ATHLON 64 x2 TK55 1.8 GHz
4GB of RAM
15.4'' SCREEN
SATA HARD DRIVE 160GB+
ATI Radeon Xpress 1200.
up to 1407MB Turbocache
THIRD PARTY WIFI b/g
DVD-D+R9
Microsoft Windows Vista Basic

Detailed Features:

Specifications of the motherboard of the EasyNote MX52 series

AMD M690V (ATI RS690MC) Northbridge:

Supports AMD Mobile Sempron, Mobile Turion 64 (Socket S1).
Support for DDR2.
667 MHz system bus.
Support for PCI Express.

AMD SB600 Southbridge:

PCI Express and PCI bus interface.
Integrated LAN controller.
Integrated IDE controllers.
Support for High Definition Audio.
Advanced power management.
Support for high-speed USB 2.0 peripherals.

Video:

Model: ATI Radeon XPress 1200
Chipset: ATI RS690MC
Interface: PCI-Express

Shared Memory Type:

Up to 320 MB when system memory < 1 GB
Up to 896 MB when system memory >= 2GB

Audio:

RealTek ALC883 codec.
High-definition audio (Azalea).

Network: RealTek RTL8100.

System Memory:

SO-DIMM (Small Outline Dual Inline Memory Module), 2 banks.
Supports 4 GB RAM (max.), using 2x2 GB DDR2 SO-DIMMs.
Supports DDR2 533 and DDR2 667 memory modules.
Supports dual-channel memory operation.

Connectivity:

4 USB 2.0 ports.
4-in-1 card reader (Memory Stick / MS PRO / SD / MMC).

[cinusara]

Hello yorus. Thank you for your response. The question is as follows: if I make an image of the system on an external hard drive via USB, format it and install Windows 7, if it fails or does not work well, how would I recover the image of Vista, that is, leave it as it was. Would this be possible? Thank you.

[ferelxyx]

there are several programs to recover the image, but look at Packard Bell that will have the image of yours

Acronis True Image or something similar

regards

[cinusara]

thanks ferelys but I already looked it up and this laptop is already outdated. you asked me about acronis true image when I install it in the vista installation or in the windows 7 installation.
let me clarify: I install acronis on windows vista and make an image of the system.
then I format and install 7. for the reason that if I don't, I will recover it with acronis, but I wonder if I format the zcronis program, will it also be erased or not?

[ferelxyx]

saludos

[cinusara]

Thanks to all of you, you have been a great help, I will work on it this weekend, I hope everything goes well, I repeat, thank you