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Can I ask why you would want to?
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does windows 7 / Vista support having windir/ target path set to winnt during installation? or does it have to be windows now.? I wouldn't have thought so but cannot find any Microsoft Articles to confirm this.
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does windows 7 / Vista support having windir/ target path set to winnt during installation? or does it have to be windows now.? I wouldn't have thought so but cannot find any Microsoft Articles to confirm this.

Can you install Vista / windows 7 to winnt directory

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