I wasted the better part of two days trying to give win 8 (8.1) a fair shake, even bought the "dummies" book. I give up! How can I lose 8 and install 7 pro 64 (or close) on my new nextbook, please, and thanks!
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Hi y'all, my first post here. I'm a novice - can get into trouble without getting out.
The lovely wife had an old Dell machine that came with WinXP. We bought an upgrade pack at retail to upgrade from XP to Windows 7 Home Premium. Lovely wife has a new machine with Windows 8. We want to...
Hey guys, this is my current format setup
The error is:
If I turn on CSM and choose the UEFI flash drive it goes further, loads the windows instillation files then starts playing the win 7 loading animation but freezes half way through.
I read somewhere that I may have to slipstream...
Hi all Just bought a new VAIO laptop, with Win8 Pro (as I knew I was going to downgrade to Win7 Pro). So far I have done the following: Found various guides (not on this site!), which seemed to say it was quite straightforward, and that I need a Win7 product key. Sony haven't provided me with...
I have a Win8 laptop on which I want to install Win7 Pro (for which a have a DVD and key). I know simply trying to boot the Win7 disk does not do it. Is the problem the Win8 drive is a GPT disk? If so can I use Partiton to change it to MBR and just go from there? If not, what else do I have to...
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