I have a new laptop with Windows 8 pre installed and I want to put Windows 7 on it. I have booted to my WIndows 7 disk, selected language and now I'm at this screen with all the partitions and it wont let me select one..do I have to format one before I can continue? Thanks.
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To Downgrade to Windows 7.
Downgrade Windows 8 to Windows 7
Warning you must have the uEFI/BIOS firmware setting in Step Three set.
You would need to check Samsung web site for drivers for the model.
Most of them will be installed automatically. But you have to be able to connect to the network to install all stuff. Are you working wireless or wired? What brand and type computer is it?
Most important are network drivers. Either wireless or wired. All other stuff can be downloaded or will be detected/installed automatically.
Clean Install Windows 7
automatic driver installation TURN it ON So opposite as here Drivers - Turn Off Automatic Driver Installation
Check device manager and post the properties of wireless networkadapter. Under properties ->details you see the hardware-id's. I can lookup what card you have. And give you a link to driver.
Also give me brand and type of computer. You need x64 (64bits) driver?
Thanks for all your help I really appreciate it. I was able to get my wife to send me the model number of the laptop. It is a Samsung and the model # is NP355V5C-A02CA and yes 64 bit. Thanks.
NP355V5C -
Click on "Drivers"
Download all drivers for win7 x64. And put on usb stick or DVD. After win7 has been installed....
Unzip one driver... and run setup.exe or install.exe or something like that.
Then second driver and so on.
start with wireless stuff.
To clean install win7 UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) - Install Windows 7 with
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