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Installing Win7 on a Win10 computer

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I'm going to have to buy a new computer. It already has Win10 installed. I have the purchased Win7 install disk. Can I install Win7 on the new one and use it (Win7) as the primary boot program? And if so, how should I go about it?

Can't get past welcome screen

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The problem started last month. I could not get past the windows welcome screen. But my laptop started fine in safe mode. Since I couldn't find any solution, I reinstalled windows. It was working fine for a month, but again today the same problem started. At first I started check disc for C drive from Safe mode, after which Windows loaded fine. But after I restarted my laptop, it got stuck in the...

Samsung Q460 Laptop, Cant access BIOS but win 7 runs

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Hi My Laptop is Samsung Q460. I am running Windows 7 in it. I previously a few months ago upgraded to windows when which i believe i have lost access to BIOS. I tried turing off the fast boot and other options to no avail. I have since then reverted to Windows 7. I cant access BIOS on this as well. To let you know, this laptop built in keyboard is broken, so im using an external...

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit fresh Installation problem

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My problem is on an old pc I upgraded the hard drive with an ssd 120gb so I had to do a fresh install. Evrything was smooth and fine till Windows had to start updates,first of all i had a problem after update the windows Updater but i fixed that one and had 200+ of windows updates to do.So I tried to update all together and i tried few at a time.The problem that I have is that I can only boot...

where can I find SURT tool to kick w7 updates

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I understand that this SURT is supposed to resolve the eternal "searching for updates" so I would be extremely please if someone could tell me where this marvel can be found Thanks a lot for your time

Remove Windows 10 from dual boot with Windows 7, Win10 installed first

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How do I do this? I tried following a tutorial in the tutorial section, but the option to delete volume in grayed out. Image: http://i.imgur.com/gYSrURc.png

uninstall windows 10 back to my original windows 7 home premium

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stupidly downloaded windows 10 free download and hate it. Would like to get my HP laptop back running original windows 7 home premium ( I think that is it or that is my desktop Dell computer) either way both desktop and my laptop run windows 7. I tried to uninstall windows 10 thru my control panel programs and features didn't work So then I tried restoring to a previous date and time this did...

Solved How do I boot to working Windows 7 partition when rollback is listed?

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Seems when I reboot my computer due to a installation I tried but stopped because of a mistake of windows 7 it now boots to I think it says rollback instead of the 2nd choice which has the working windows 7. Upon Boot there is a black screen with windows rollback listed and windows 7, if I do not select windows 7 it auto boots to the rollback thing which is just a windows background with a...

How to install Windows 7 on Skylake Dell XPS 8910

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Just got a Dell XPS 8910 with the i7-6700k skylake which comes with Windows 10 installed. I would like to install windows 7. Following this video made a windows 7 bootable USB from a dell windows 7 ultimate disc. How to install Windows 7 on Skylake platform using USB device - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_zPIGrFypI) When I am on the 8910 and try booting to the USB though the...

Reinstalling Windows 7 On My PC

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I'm about to reinstall Windows 7 on my PC--any particular critical procedures to undertake beforehand? I do know about backing up critical files first. And a tech friend says that Sysprep is lame and nearly useless. Just his opinion.

Clone old drive, to new drive that already has Windows 7 installed?

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Hi there. I am looking to move my 1TB of data (documents+games+movies+programs) to a 2TB harddrive (brand new harddrive). So what I want to do is to install a fresh Windows 7 onto the 2TB, and then I want to clone and copy over the 1TB harddrive's data to the 2TB harddrive, so that all of my games (with their saves) and programs will work on the 2TB harddrive. And the obvious reason why I...

Replacing HDD on Refurbished Dell Latitude

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Many thanks in advance for the help. I've been an idle reader for a long time, but just registered because I couldn't quite find help specific to my current issue. I've just bought a Dell Latitute 6430 refurbished off Amazon -- this one in particular (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LQUY9AE/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1). The "Benny Bookman" review is from me and repeats...

How to delete the operating system at boot screen.

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Theres a problem of boot screen There comes a screen to select windows I try deleting with bcdedit /delet but its not getting deleted. I also tried to delete with easy bcd windows application but nothing happened please help. PHP: --------- Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved C:\Windows\system32>bcdedit

Reinstall win7 from windows.old

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Maybe this is not the right place to put my question, nevertheless I give it a shot ! ;) When I start the Repair Option from the DVD it asks me if I want to repair the OS which is on drive H ! When I check drive H, there's NO windows (I never put it there anyhow!) When I "DIR" my C: windows is there, windows.old is there... So when I start copying like the tutorial describes, nothing can be...

Moving and deleting OS on triple-boot setup

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I have a dual boot 7 with 32bit and 64bit, and unknowingly installed the 32 first and 64 thereafter (on 2 partitions of SSD). I realise now that I want to delete 32bit and cannot format this partition. I ask because I have a Win 10 partition on my HDD that I eventually want to clone to the SSD and thereafter only have 2 partitions with 64bit 7 & 10, and format the space left on the HDD as a...

cannot do an in-place upgrade on my. Windows seven PC

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Hey friends, I have been trying to do an in-place upgrade on my PC because of continual windows explorer crashes, however, when the installer tries to check for compatibility, I get a message that the install cannot continue due to Lenovo ADP composite device. I think it was installed when I installed the software for my Lenovo tablet to connect an Android device to a PC. I am at my wit's end...

Black Screen during Win7 install.

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I'm installing Windows 7 on this Dell laptop, which has no DVD drive, by a USB key. Problem: 1. BIOS loaded with optimal defaults. 2. Set USB key at first. 3. Starting windows logo appears. 4. BLACK screen with mouse. Mouse moves BTW. Specs: 2GB ram, 250GB HDD set to AHCI mode. I tried all the possible fixes listed on the web but nothing works. Also, there's no windows 7 already...

Downgrading from windows 7 gone wrong (bootmgr is missing)

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Hi all. So I was trying to deinstall windows 10 and install windows 7 of my Asus Vivobook S300C using this guide (http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/how-to-do-a-clean-install-of-windows-7-8). Everything worked fine until the "IMMEDIATELY Click Out On Top X, TERMINATE Installation Process and REBOOT." step. At this point I restarted the computer and continued through the installation process...

Error code = 0x490 due to power cut, now Windows completely missing!

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Hello everyone, I have a problem I attempted to solve by following a tutorial but was unsuccesful. My computer was installing windows updates when the power went out. From that moment, when restarted, it offer me a choice of 1. attempting startup repair 2. loading windows as if nothing happened. When I tried 2. it would be stuck on loading windows logo until I restarted.

How to install win xp to Ba025au laptop

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How to install win xp to Ba025au laptop it goes till screen setup windows or repair windows press r then shuts down i want to install win xp on this new laptop purchased on oct 2016 bios does not have option for ide mode
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