Is Win7 installation possible on Satellite A100-551?

Satellite A100-551 with XP. Is it possible to pass in WINDOWS 7 ?
Because Microsoft does not make any more of supports on Windows xp and me advice (council) to put my PC in Windows 7.
Is it possible to make him(it)?

Hi
Long time ago Ive made some experiments with my old Satellite M70 and Win7 installation and I was able to use it, of course with not all Toshiba specific tools and utilities but it worked pretty well
So in my opinion you should be able to install Win7 32bit on your old Satellite P100.
Ive checked Toshiba download page on http://www.toshiba.eu/innovation/download_drivers_bios.jsp and your machine is supported for Vista so after Win7 installation try to install some Vista drivers. I hope most of them can be used with Win7 too.
Just test it. generally speaking there is nothing left to lose.

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