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Kevin Mosley

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Apr 19, 2009
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Montgomery, IL
I had trouble searching through the endless amount of threads and just decided to ask for help.

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(to start with)

I want Windows 7 on my early 2009 iMac. I currently have XP on the partition. It's time to update.

Do I have to restore the HD to remove XP? (and is this how I do it?)

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Now, can I install 7 x64 on my iMac?

The apple support page did not list my iMac for 64-bit compatibility (unless I missed it).

I really want to be able to take advantage of all 8 GB of ram and I don't think I can do that with 7 x86.

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I hope that makes sense. Any help would be appreciated.
 
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