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Can I Clean Install 7 On An HP Pavilion Laptop That Has 10?
I am planning to purchase a brand new laptop that is an HP Pavilion 17. It has Windows 10 Professional 64 bit pre-installed on it, and I have purchased an OEM to downgrade it to Windows 7 Professional 64 bit via a clean install. Doing this via the optical drive, and not the usb method, will there be any problems involved with doing this?
I have read of people being unable to do this with some laptops via usb, and wondered if that extended to the optical drive. I have read of the various issues with Dell.
I know how to do the clean install of 7, since I did one for my current computer (a desktop about a decade old now, also HP; and I installed a different OEM of 7 on my father’s computer) about 4 years ago to upgrade from XP to Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit. I think I know where to find the drivers on HP's site following any clean installation. It’s just the question on if I’ll have be running into any problems getting 7 to install on HP these days.
Is it just a matter of making certain it’s not a 7th generation processor when I purchase the laptop, or do I need to be on the lookout for more to avoid?