# Download Free Legal Copy of Windows 7 beta ( 32 bit or 64 bit ) tomorrow from MS

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**Created:** [January 8, 2009, 6:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938 "2009-01-08T06:57:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![9c1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/9c1/32/7392_2.png) [@9c1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/9c1)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 5:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/41 "2009-01-09T05:11:13Z")

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This beta looks really good. It’s running very well for me. Looking this good, I’d expect this to RTM with Vista SP2 sometime late spring and hit retail channels by late summer in time for the back to school rush. Just my $0.02.

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**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 5:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/42 "2009-01-09T05:28:07Z")

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I wonder if vista SP2 will include any of these new features from 7? I just find it very odd on how fast they pushed vista aside. It had shitty marketing and a rough start, but it’s turned in to a pretty great modern OS imo

certianly no where near the bucket of shit that was windows: ME lol

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**Author:** ![zwarbyt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/zwarbyt/32/7623_2.png) [@zwarbyt](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/zwarbyt)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 5:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/43 "2009-01-09T05:42:04Z")

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anyone have the link for a direct download?

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**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 6:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/44 "2009-01-09T06:04:36Z")

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trying to get a legit copy of x64 but microsofts website is slow as shit

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**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 6:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/45 "2009-01-09T06:18:51Z")

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I am going to pick up some more ram from bestbuy today…then I will install this…

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**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 6:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/46 "2009-01-09T06:43:49Z")

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lol I’m going to try it on my screaming 2ghz athlon xp and 768mb ddr266 :run:

What file system does windows 7 use? NTFS or did they end up going with winFS?

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**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 6:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/47 "2009-01-09T06:49:53Z")

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FAT12

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**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 6:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/48 "2009-01-09T06:52:18Z")

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> [@Fry](#):
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> lol I’m going to try it on my screaming 2ghz athlon xp and 768mb ddr266 :run:
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> What file system does windows 7 use? NTFS or did they end up going with winFS?

I’m pretty sure it uses NTFS… when I installed it last night, it didn’t prompt me for any of that oddly enough. it just did it’s thing

I’d be willing to bet that it will run decent on your system though :tup: it’s a pretty lean OS. I designated 2gb of memory to the VM and windows was only using around 400mb or so

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**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 7:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/49 "2009-01-09T07:01:13Z")

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If I have time I’ll give it a shot. I don’t have the horsepower to use Vista so this will make for a nice comparison to Windows XP.

I seem to remember from the last time I dual booted 2 versions of windows that the 2nd version won’t be able to use letter C for its system directory, no? IIRC that was a pain in the ass. Can I unmount the others partitions and have them both think they’re C:?

lol did that make any sense?^

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**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 7:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/50 "2009-01-09T07:20:27Z")

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the current running OS will always default the installed partition to letter C

so XP’s partition inside of XP will read C, while the windows 7 partition will read D (or whatever letter is free), but inside of windows 7 it will read just the opposite (C for the installed partition, and D for the XP partition)

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**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 7:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/51 "2009-01-09T07:21:13Z")

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OIC

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**Author:** ![itsJim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@itsJim](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/itsJim)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 7:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/52 "2009-01-09T07:22:02Z")

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> [@Fry](#):
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> I seem to remember from the last time I dual booted 2 versions of windows that the 2nd version won’t be able to use letter C for its system directory, no? IIRC that was a pain in the ass. Can I unmount the others partitions and have them both think they’re C:?

I don’t think so but that would be pretty cool.

WinFS lol… What a joke.

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**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 7:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/53 "2009-01-09T07:23:35Z")

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also, you can hide the partitions from each OS afaik. So 7 wont show the XP partition and XP wont show the 7 partition. It would probably help keep things cleaner

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**Author:** ![suzukiriderman](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/suzukiriderman/32/7421_2.png) [@suzukiriderman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/suzukiriderman)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 7:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/54 "2009-01-09T07:44:38Z")

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Why can’t I find the download link anywhere?

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**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 7:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/55 "2009-01-09T07:48:18Z")

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because you can’t read an entire thread?

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**Author:** ![pirite](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/pirite/32/5308_2.png) [@pirite](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/pirite)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 7:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/56 "2009-01-09T07:51:49Z")

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“server is too busy”

fuck microsoft. lol

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**Author:** ![suzukiriderman](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/suzukiriderman/32/7421_2.png) [@suzukiriderman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/suzukiriderman)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 7:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/57 "2009-01-09T07:53:23Z")

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> [@LZ](#):
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> because you can’t read an entire thread?

Really? where does it say where the Windows page download is? Unless you’re talking about the usenet or demonoid references.

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**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 7:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/58 "2009-01-09T07:56:43Z")

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I can’t find the download either

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**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 7:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/59 "2009-01-09T07:57:39Z")

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I was just going to say use demonoid its going to be quicker.

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**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 7:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/60 "2009-01-09T07:59:15Z")

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yeah I just don’t want to be chewing up bandwidth at work downloading a torrent that is likely illegal.

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