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Is it actually possible to install W7 on HP Envy 15???
Hi – I know this has been covered here before – believe me, I’ve spent a long time reading through the threads I could find – but the solutions offered don’t seem to work for me, so I’ve come here to try and establish once and for all if I can actually get W7 to run on my HP Envy 15-J151sa (AMD chipset).
It came with W10, and I thought I could get used to it, but I absolutely hate it… so much I’ve gone back to using my old, slow W7 laptop, which at least works properly. W10 seems inherently unstable, frequently freezing, taking forever to scroll web pages, restarting itself when the computer is “asleep”, losing your work etc. It's a nightmare.
Anyway, I prepared a W7 installation DVD and USB stick, and changed the BIOS settings to allow the laptop to boot from them – no problem, I get to the point where I choose my regional settings, then hit the “Install Now” button… and get the dreaded message about a DVD driver being missing, and can get no further.
The suggestions about moving the USB stick to a different port etc simply don’t work for me – I’ve tried and tried. I don’t really know if this error message means what it says… I’ve tried to find AMD chipset SATA/AHCI drivers, in case that’s the problem… I’ve found a few, and it briefly looked hopeful, but then I got a message saying it couldn’t install them, and that I should look for a different version or something.
AMD/Microsoft have been unhelpful; HP told me I shouldn't be trying to install W7 on a W10 machine, and that no drivers were available.
Am I flogging a dead horse here? If it’s impossible, I’d sooner avoid wasting any more time!
Thanks for reading this far, if you're still awake…