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Need help to install w7 on w10 laptop
so i got a used Giga-Byte Technology Aero 15X v8-BK4 laptop and tried to insert a mutly boot w7 cd in my external cd/dvd drive and had no luck. so i did some digging around and you can get it to load buy going to the bios and changing it to legacy mode. so tried that and i get all the way to were you select your drive but non show up. and cant seem to find the drivers. from what i read you cant get it to work doing this way with a dvd/cd. (or latest with out some command prom stuff)
so i did more digging around the net and found a few tools that take an iso and add nvme drivers to the iso but has to be put on a flash drive. i first tried my sd to mico sd 32gb and well kinda worked. there are 2 setting from what i gathered when using the tool one for Legacy BIOS other for UEFI
so what i gathered for UEFI bios Partition scheme, select GPT. File system, select FAT32
and Legacy BIOS Partition scheme, select MBR. File system, select NTFS.
so using rufus i could pick one (in my case i got 2 of the same flashdrive so i just did both)
i crated a partition on the mane m.2 that came with the laptop one in fat32 and the other ntfs.
after i got the flash drive with drivers i click on it and hit setup and get to were its copyes files and when it gets to extracting files it gets to about 20% then restarts the laptop and it gets stuck on the starting windows screen. some times there's a wight bar's were it loads 2 times before the windows loading screen and some times i get it to have the 4 color windows logo load in. and that's as far as i got.
so i thought it was my m.2 drive and w/e partitions and w10 is installed on it messing with it so i got an Samsung 860evo m.2 ssd. and on the way i got a SAMSUNG 970 EVO M.2 nvme on the way.
i download windows ios download tool and got the only w7 iso it let me download. i got a few other iso off the net and i tried ripping the iso from my cd to an flash drive.
other tools i got and tried. msi smart tool. gigabit windows installation usb tool. ms windows 7 usb /down loader tool. ruffus. widows iso down loader.
any ideas? thx