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Did clean the dvd allready. Also used an external dvd drive. I'm out of options. I guess i'm going to bring the laptop back where I purchased it.
I did some searching and I discovered this. See photo.
When in disk managment I went to OS C: properties. Then properties of disk and then tab volumes. There is nothing there. The SSD disk has info. Its has partitionstyle MBR. The normal HDD I first have to tick the box fill in so the info appears. I was forced a restart. Does this make sense?
CSM is not need as your Pre-installed Windows 7 is installed in Legacy mode already & booting.
It was a dual boot with old win7 on the HDD and a new win7 on the ssd. I used an upgrade version of win8 over the new win7 SSD. The old version of win7 still was there. Does Win8 change the way the disks behave?Try booting the Windows 8 Upgrade DVD.
1) The thread is about downgrading from Windows 8 Pre-installed to Windows 7.
2) Dual Boot Installation - Windows 8 and Windows 7 or Vista
3) Is the Windows 7 Pre-installed, installed in UEFI mode?