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[WIndows 7 ultimate x64] installation on a asus nv56vm
Dear all,
I have created this account to ask your help for installation of windows 7 ultimate x64 on a x64 laptop with uefi BIOS.
I have this laptop in less than a week, and needed to get rid of all the bloat-ware that is installed on the laptop. I also needed the extra disk space for other stuff.
So, i downloaded a legal copy of windows 7 ultimate x64, as this is a x64 machine.
It has a I7 with 8 GB ram, and a normal hdd, no SDD, as far i know.
The laptop model is Asus NV56VM.
I have problems in getting the hard-disk recognized in the installer.
So, i had formated the hole disk in to one big disk, including all the partitions.
I had this done with diskpart, and could not get the gpt converting in diskpart.
So, i booted in linux, activated gpt with gparted.
Get back to windows installer, used diskpart to format it to ntfs, and added a label to it. At the moment the disk is listed in diskpart withoud a drive letter.
When i run again the windows 7 installer after a reboot, i could not install windows (again).
I try to install windows from a usb pen, formated manualy to fat32, extracted the iso and copied directly to the usb pen.
After i had changed the *\efi\microsoft\boot to *\efi\boot\, as some guids here and else where mentioned, i could boot, but it provided me a error.
So, i altered some things as follows (i have tried this configuration with a usb pen formated to ntfs and fat32):
In *\efi\microsoft\boot i have a complete boot set, no renames ect. I had this done, as it was asking for the bcd
In *\efi\boot i have the following files:
bcd
bootia64.efi
efisys.bin
efisys_noprompt.bin
I had also the same configuration, with bootmgfw.efi (i got this file from install.wim, extracted with 7 zip located on the iso i downloaded, so it is for the same windows version, i also have tried this with the version installed on my old windows). I have changed bootmgfw.efi to bootia64.efi, as i had read in some other manual, and this helped a bit with the recognizing of the keyboard layout (pt).
I got the same results (i got to the install menu, all ok, only the most important thing, i cannot select the disk to install).
So, i got here a bit stuck with everything.
Ubuntu sees the disk label as "new", and i can access it. Gparted and diskpart sees that the disk is gpt formated, and as NTFS.
UEFI is enabled in the bios. I select uefi when i boot the laptop at the boot menu (i press esc for the bootmenu to appear).
I do all of this also to get uefi and gpt worked with x64.. I think that this speeds up a bit win 7.
There is clearly something that i do wrong or don't see at the moment but what???