Having trouble installing Windows 7 on a new Windows 10 Laptop.?

Question

Having trouble installing Windows 7 on a new Windows 10 Laptop.?

Answer 1

watch videos at youtube..................... or study the installation guide............... proper way

Answer 2

please google search

Answer 3

@Mark/@Aerialnine - I got into BIOS, or rather UEFI as I've learned, and adjusted what I could find. Still won't boot from USB but CD and what pops up in Boot Manager as Windows Installer. Both of these lead to the Windows 7 splash screen saying "Starting Windows" but just hangs there for hours.



@eatwelld - I had considered dual boot but hoping to avoid that if possible.



@mrinoy/keerok - Oh believe I am savvy and tenacious when it comes to to dealing with comp issues like this.



I have found...few...but some sites saying its not possible and, if it is, hard to deal with drivers. Already sourced some drivers. Now needing to finish install to test it and find out.

Answer 4

I think it is but you would need to go dual boot

Answer 5

There should be a way. Just be persistent enough.



http://superuser.com/questions/1020925/install-win7-on-a-new-win-10-laptop

http://www.howtogeek.com/220723/how-to-uninstall-windows-10-and-downgrade-to-windows-7-or-8.1/

Answer 6

watch videos at youtube....... or study the installation guide..... best way

Answer 7

There should be no problem to install Windows 7 on a 10 laptop.

create a bootable USB flash drive

boot the os with the USB

install the os by following the guide

activate the os with an activation key(if need, just spend 30 bucks from WeNeedKey)

Answer 8

Windows 10 uses Secure UEFI boot. Win 7 uses BIOS. Totally different, your PC may never boot.

If it does boot, you might never get drivers working for screen, disk, memory, network, usb, etc!

Answer 9

Why can't you install from dvd? can you not access the bios in the new system to set the boot to boot to dvd 1st?

If you install from the os you will get win7 on drive d:

which causes its own problems

Answer 10

It is possible for some system to be upgraded to 7 or 8.1. People are going to tell you it can't be done or the drivers are not available. That is all a bunch of Bull manure spread by the people who make a profit off spyware and love the government knowing what you do on a daily basis. They are truly in love with Windows 10 and the profits it is going to put in their pockets. They are also posting a lot of false info on how to do this so it wont work for you. There are those who do not want you to do this so BE WARNED.



If your current system came with UEFI the install disc for Windows 7, which is intended for a BIOS system, will only boot so far and just stop. To fix that, you will need to build a UEFI boot thumb drive. To do this you will need a .iso copy of Windows 7, a good product key, a 8GB thumb drive, a program called Rufus, and the DRIVERS for the system you are going to install 7 on. Finding the Windows 7 drivers is not that hard for most systems. You will need to find the chipset, GPU, LAN,WiFi, and audio drivers. If it came with a SD card reader or finger print reader you will need them to. Post make and model and I'll check if they are available.



Once you have the .iso file then you need to download Rufus. You can find it here.



http://rufus.akeo.ie/



When you run it to make the bootable thumb drive, you're going to see this screen.



http://rufus.akeo.ie/pics/rufus_en.png



Follow these instruction for making the thumb drive.



http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/15458-uefi-bootable-usb-flash-drive-create-windows.html



Once you have the thumb drive made then follow these instructions.



http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/186875-uefi-unified-extensible-firmware-interface-install-windows-7-a.html



Before doing any of this you should make an image of your hard drive just in case you run into problems.



If you do not have imaging software use Clonezilla. You will need to download Rufus USB installer. You need to read the instruction carefully and know a little about Linux to use this. There can be dragons present if you do not understand what your doing. I make no guarantees.



https://rufus.akeo.ie/



You need to download the ISO alternative version of Clonezilla. It is written to run on UEFI systems.



http://clonezilla.org/downloads/download.php?branch=alternative



When you run Rufus it will ask you what distro you want to use, select at the bottom iso image. Then browse to where you have Clonezilla on your drive and choose as the image you want to use.



https://rufus.akeo.ie/pics/rufus_en.png



Once you have the thumb drive made you can boot your desktop using a USB port and run Clonezilla. Just follow the instruction in the link below and you will have an image of your drive. If you use a external hard drive to store the image the process goes pretty fast.



This link is for step by step instructions for Clonezilla



http://clonezilla.org/show-live-doc-content.php?topic=clonezilla-live/doc/01_Save_disk_image