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i have a ? i got a inspiron b120 for my son for school it was giving us issues so i set it back to factory setting but now its very slow i had to replace the dvd player and i have and extra hard drive i think the harddrive is bad is there anyway to down load the os. it has xp or with the new hard drive can i use vista cuz i have that disk i dont have the xp
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Posted October 19th, 2013 04:00
This unit is >7 years old and was a low end system when it was released. It won't run a modern OS very well.
If it has 2 GB of RAM installed and the Vista license is used, you may install the 32 bit version. Even then it will likely be excruciatingly slow and will heat up quite a bit.
Windows 7 and 8 have a lower footprint but the cost of a license isn't worth it on such poor hardware.
Windows XP reaches its End of Life in April 2014 and shouldn't be used after then. See http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/endofsupport.aspx.
ieee488
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Posted October 19th, 2013 08:00
I would run Dell Diagnostics. F12 at bootup. to see what is causing it to be "very slow".
Perhaps comparing a laptop that old to newer ones makes it feel "very slow".