Original drive went bad. No backups or restore available
Originally an windows 8 machine and went to 10.
Trying to install windows 7 pro 64 bit via DVD so I can get back to 10
1. In UEFI mode it will not get past the windows logo
2. in legacy mode I can get to the disk format and selection...
Hello everyone!
I bought a new custom built gaming PC an I've been trying to install Windows 7 for hours. I've been trying to install Windows 7 via a 4GB USB drive. I didn't buy an optical drive.
Here's what I've tried:
1) Make a bootable USB drive following this:
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hi,
i am having a peculiar problem with my newly purchased Acer TimelineU M5-581T laptop. it has 20GB SSD and 500GB HDD and UEFI MB also supports legacy BIOS. it came with Windows-8 pre-installed and had a single drive C:. i needed to partition it and had created drive D: with windows disk...
So I recently purchased a Lenovo y480, along with a new hard drive to replace the rather slow 5400 rpm stock drive it came with (the new drive is a 7200 rpm Seagate if that is relevant). I wasn't a big fan of the time I spent playing around with windows 8, so I figured when I got the new drive I'd...
I just upgraded my motherboard and cpu to
asrock H77 Pro4-M mobo
intel core i5 3550
the problem is I can't install windows 7 which I'm guessing is because of the UEFI but I can't be sure as this is my first time upgrading except for the storage more HDDs
I went into the UEFI menu and...