Will I have any issue on my netbook if I made a bootable InstWin8 HDD?

I have a netbook (Samsung N130) running Win 7 Starter. I am thinking of loading Ubuntu 14.04 on it exclusively. Which means Win 7 will be erased when I partition the disk. Tried loading Ubuntu alongside and for some reason it is not happening, even resulting in a crash. I then get the Win7 reloaded...

Hello, Just took a new computer: Acer TravelMate P253-E with Windows 8 inside. First of all I want o install win7. Inserted dvd with win7 setup and tried to enter boot menu or BIOS setup at the start of just turned on computer. Tried all combinations from (esc, f1,f2....f12,del) nothing works also...

Would greatly appreciate some help trying to create a bootable system on my 16GB USB stick. Here's what I did: In Diskpart: clean to wipe the USB stick clean create partition primary offset=32 align=32 to create a fresh partition starting at sector 64 (rather than 63) active to make it...

Ok so i have bought a new hard drive for my netbook, which currently has windows 7 32 bit installed I need to backup all my installed programs/system and re-install on the new hard drive. Whats the easiest way to go about doing this without using 3rd party software. Files/Librarys are of no...

i tried putting all the files on to the usb drive however, the system doesnt boot from the usb drive! how do i make it so its bootable. thanks in advance