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I have recently been struggling since the beginning of the week trying to install an OEM copy of Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit onto my new Acer Aspire V3 laptop which came with Windows 8 64 bit pre-installed.
I made a thread over at Seven Forums: Ordered new laptop with Win 8 but plan to install Win 7 - partitions? - Windows 7 Forums However, I've gotten more and more confused and was advised to come over here to ask for assistance.
Here are the tutorials I have been linked to:
Step 1 to 5 of: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/13326-downgrade-windows-8-windows-7-a.html
Follow: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2344-dual-boot-installation-windows-8-windows-7-vista.html
My current hard drive setup looks like this:
The "Win 7 (E" is a new partition I made for Windows 7 to be installed onto. The approximately 21GB recovery partition has been removed in DiskPart.
Disk 1 is the USB flash drive I copied the data from Windows 7 installation disk and rearranged and renamed folders and files according to this tutorial: UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) - Install Windows 7 with - Windows 7 Forums
I have also disabled "Secure Boot" within the BIOS although UEFI is still enabled. I have confirmed that Secure Boot is off by using Windows PowerShell run as administrator and using the line
"confirm-SecureBootUEFI"
Response:
"False"
The hard drive is set up in GPT mode.
I have made:
1. a recovery DVD
2. a recovery drive on a USB
I have not made a system image as I do not possess any storage media large enough to do one.
Every time I've tried to install Windows 7, it either had a 0x0 error (from within Windows 8), could not install with GPT or frozen on the "Windows Starting" logo.
The USB flash drive has been cleaned and formatted with DiskPart. I followed these instructions: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/15458-uefi-bootable-usb-flash-drive-create-windows.html
This post has been referred to me several times: cant install windows 7 in the preinstalled windows 8 laptop - Windows 7 Forums
And as I believe we both share the same Acer BIOS, I fear I'm in the same situation as this guy: GPT Hard drive issues with installing Windows 7 Ultimate.. - Windows 7 Forums
I am really stuck and really tired, frustrated and pretty bored of all this now. I want to keep the pre-installed Windows 8 installation while dual-booting with Windows 7. I don't want to lose Windows 8 as I paid for the Windows 8 licence in the price of the laptop. I'm truly annoyed and I can't budget a new USB HDD in my student loan very easily.
I would very much prefer to use Windows 7 as my primary operating system as I prefer it over Windows 8 and I know that all my programs will run on Windows 7. I don't know how well SolidWorks runs with Windows 8 but even if it's fine with Windows 8 I don't want to use Windows 8! I still want to keep it though - I technically paid for it.
I'm rather desperate for help now!
Edit: more to add:
I made a thread over at Seven Forums: Ordered new laptop with Win 8 but plan to install Win 7 - partitions? - Windows 7 Forums However, I've gotten more and more confused and was advised to come over here to ask for assistance.
Here are the tutorials I have been linked to:
Step 1 to 5 of: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/13326-downgrade-windows-8-windows-7-a.html
Follow: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2344-dual-boot-installation-windows-8-windows-7-vista.html
My current hard drive setup looks like this:
The "Win 7 (E" is a new partition I made for Windows 7 to be installed onto. The approximately 21GB recovery partition has been removed in DiskPart.
Disk 1 is the USB flash drive I copied the data from Windows 7 installation disk and rearranged and renamed folders and files according to this tutorial: UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) - Install Windows 7 with - Windows 7 Forums
I have also disabled "Secure Boot" within the BIOS although UEFI is still enabled. I have confirmed that Secure Boot is off by using Windows PowerShell run as administrator and using the line
"confirm-SecureBootUEFI"
Response:
"False"
The hard drive is set up in GPT mode.
I have made:
1. a recovery DVD
2. a recovery drive on a USB
I have not made a system image as I do not possess any storage media large enough to do one.
Every time I've tried to install Windows 7, it either had a 0x0 error (from within Windows 8), could not install with GPT or frozen on the "Windows Starting" logo.
The USB flash drive has been cleaned and formatted with DiskPart. I followed these instructions: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/15458-uefi-bootable-usb-flash-drive-create-windows.html
This post has been referred to me several times: cant install windows 7 in the preinstalled windows 8 laptop - Windows 7 Forums
And as I believe we both share the same Acer BIOS, I fear I'm in the same situation as this guy: GPT Hard drive issues with installing Windows 7 Ultimate.. - Windows 7 Forums
I am really stuck and really tired, frustrated and pretty bored of all this now. I want to keep the pre-installed Windows 8 installation while dual-booting with Windows 7. I don't want to lose Windows 8 as I paid for the Windows 8 licence in the price of the laptop. I'm truly annoyed and I can't budget a new USB HDD in my student loan very easily.
I would very much prefer to use Windows 7 as my primary operating system as I prefer it over Windows 8 and I know that all my programs will run on Windows 7. I don't know how well SolidWorks runs with Windows 8 but even if it's fine with Windows 8 I don't want to use Windows 8! I still want to keep it though - I technically paid for it.
I'm rather desperate for help now!
Edit: more to add:
You not booting the DVD/USB in uEFI mode.but when I try to pick my partition I made for Windows 7 it's greyed out where it says next
View attachment 249877
Also, I have no boot menu option in UEFI boot
Acer is F12, but check your manual to be sure.
So F12 was disabled in the BIOS I found
I enabled it, then restarted it in UEFI - pressed F12 and selected the USB but it doesn't say UEFI in front of the USB drive.
Select it anyway
"Windows is loading files"
"Starting Windows"
Windows logo freezes and stays frozen
Edit: also tried with just the DVD - DVD drive did not have UEFI in front of it either - froze in the same place. Maybe I did not setup the USB right? I did follow the instructions for UEFI though. Grrr! I'm really hoping that I don't have to result to cleaning the entire HDD and converting to MBR because as I said, I can't keep spending money on this - I don't have an external HDD I can use to image the existing data to.
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My Computer
System One
-
- OS
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Self built custom PC
- CPU
- AMD Phenom II x4 955 Black Edition
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P
- Memory
- 8GB Corsair Red Vengeance DDR3 1600 (@1333MHz)
- Graphics Card(s)
- XFX AMD Radeon HD 6970 2GB
- Sound Card
- Onboard Realtek Azalia
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 1x Samsung SyncMaster P2250 DVI
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080
- Hard Drives
- 1. Corsair Force 3 60GB SSD SATA III (in SATAII) - OS, drivers and programs
2. Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA II 7,200rpm 16MB Cache - games
3. Western Digital Caviar Blue 250GB SATA II 7,200rpm 16MB Cache - documents, media, download files
- PSU
- Corsair TX750W
- Case
- Lancool DragonLord PC-K62
- Cooling
- CoolerMaster V8
- Keyboard
- Logitech G110
- Mouse
- Logitech MX518
- Internet Speed
- BT Infinity 2 48Mbps download, 10Mbps Upload
- Other Info
- Logitech G27 Racing Wheel
Logitech X-140 Speakers