Version of Windows 7 for MBA late 2010

anybody installed the Home Basic version of windows7 on the newly released mac book air late 2010? Is it supported or only versions above Home premium version are supported? Many thanks.

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
Windows 7 Home Basic is not listed in Apples system requirements for installing WIndows 7 on a MBA http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4410
Additionally, Home Basic is only avaiable as a bundled-version with low-end PCs in emerging markets like India, Mexico, and similar places.
Usually such bundled-version of Windows only work with the computer they were originally sold with / came with.
So, Home Premium is the minimum to get / install on a MBA or other Macs.
Regards
Stefan

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Hi,
I've installed win7 on my MBA 13inch Late-2010 with OS X Installed 10.9.5. After shrinkin my OS X partition then windows can't start any more. Following are mya data :
Zens-MacBook-Air:~ noimba256$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Air HD                  212.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data                         29.0 GB    disk0s4
Zens-MacBook-Air:~ noimba256$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Password:
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 30515/255/63 [490234752 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 414062496] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 414472136 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 433594368 -   56639488] HPFS/QNX/AUX
Zens-MacBook-Air:~ noimba256$ sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0
gpt show: disk0: mediasize=251000193024; sectorsize=512; blocks=490234752
gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 490234751
      start       size index contents
          0          1         MBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640 414062496      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
414472136    1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
415741672   17852696
433594368   56639488      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
490233856        863
490234719         32         Sec GPT table
490234751          1         Sec GPT header
Zens-MacBook-Air:~ noimba256$ sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0s4 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C
00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000040 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff |................|
00000050 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000060 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
000000a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 00 |................|
000000b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
000000c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff |................|
000000d0 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 00 |................|
000000e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000120 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff |................|
00000130 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff |................|
00000150 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000160 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
000001a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff |................|
000001b0 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff |................|
000001d0 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 00 |................|
000001e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000200
Anyone can help me out?

Yes, it is indeed good news.
Leave your Testdisk display and start a new Terminal Window.
You need to use the following steps. If you see any error messages during the following steps, please stop and post back here with the error message. The following steps have values from your Testdisk output (and you can verify) in Steps 7 and 8.
Rebuild GPT4 using start/end offsets
Sudo gdisk /dev/rdisk0
P (print the full list of parts)
D (delete)
4 (part 4)
N (new part)
4   (part 4)
421875712 - Start offset in bytes (start point for Bootcamp part)
+68358137 (Size offset as opposed to End offset)
0700     (Windows part type)
P           (print list of all parts just to see what changes will be made)
W         (Write the new GPT)
Y           (Yes! really write the new GPT)
This will delete and re-write the GPT partition info for /dev/disk0s4.
Rebuild MBR to match the new GPT information thus resetting the Hybrid MBR. Use defaults for other questions (like partition codes). The only values that need modifications are the Boot flags and step 6. Accept all other defaults that Gdisk offers.
Sudo gdisk /dev/disk0
P (Print list of parts)
R   (Recover)
H (chooses Hybrid)
Partitions numbers to be hybridized: 2 3 4
Y (Good for GRUB question)
N (part 2 boot flag)
N (part 3 boot flag)
Y (part 4 boot flag make NTFS bootable partition)
W (Write the new MBR)
Y    (Yes! write the new MBR)
Reboot
This is an example for the second set.
Place EFI GPT (0xEE) partition first in MBR (good for GRUB)? (Y/N): Y
Creating entry for GPT partition #2 (MBR partition #2)
Enter an MBR hex code (default AF): Press Enter/Return
Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): N
Creating entry for GPT partition #3 (MBR partition #3)
Enter an MBR hex code (default AB): Press Enter/Return
Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): N
Creating entry for GPT partition #4 (MBR partition #4)
Enter an MBR hex code (default 07): 07
Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): Y
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Test 2 - Can you see files in Bootcamp Volume?
Test 3 - Can you select Bootcamp in System Preferences -> Startup Disk?
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Cheers Richard

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Message was edited by: brooklynmom

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
have a read here http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11649790&#11649790 and here http://autodesk.blogs.com/betweenthelines/2009/11/autocad-2010-on-my-macbook-pro.html
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