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| Thread ID: 136480 | 2014-03-04 00:45:00 | Getting rid of Win 8 and want to replace with Win 7 .. Possible ? | SP8's (9836) | Press F1 |
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| 1369334 | 2014-03-04 00:45:00 | Hi all Have a friend who's sick of Windows 8 on a relatively new laptop, a Gateway NE56R and wants to replace back to Windows 7 ... on a new HD. Question ... can it be done and what's involved ? Tried searching the forum but can't find anything about it, but have looked HERE (www.pcmag.com) and particulary at the statement: - If you're lucky, the manufacturer support page includes drivers for both Windows 8 and Windows 7, giving you everything you need for your entire PC. With one of our test PCs, this was all we needed to do, because all the device drivers were available. The manufacturers specs HERE (support.gateway.com) say the particular model has Windows 7 installed and no mention of 7 so wondering whether it's been upgraded to 8 by the manufacturer or NZ distributor. The new HD is required because the old one has bad sectors according to the Seatools check disk and it's hard to get the damn thing to load up ... black screens 9 out of 10 times, even in safe mode or bootup disc. Haven't tried it yet, but can I run the old HD as a "USB storage device" and find any hidden partitions that will tell me whether 7 drivers are available, or does it require running the HD as a primary drive back in the lappy ? |
SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1369335 | 2014-03-04 00:49:00 | Update ... it would seem as though I can get all the drivers required off the Gateway site. | SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1369336 | 2014-03-04 01:20:00 | Win 7 and 8 have most of the drivers on the install DVD. Only driver you may or would need are the chipset drivers and maybe updated SATA drivers. Computers / laptops with dual graphics did have probs with black screens in Win8 not so long ago. And this may have been due to incompatible video drivers I suppose you need a Win7 DVD and key to install / activate it with. Then do a clean install |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1369337 | 2014-03-04 03:17:00 | You would need to buy windows 7, wipe the drive completely clean then install it. Theres no way to "roll back" the OS to W7 unless the laptop came with that option. Which in most cases would mean the manufactures supplied DVD's with it. If it did come with W7 originally, then there will be a W7 COA either on the underside or sometimes in the battery compartment. If that were there then you can use that and a W7 DVD to install. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1369338 | 2014-03-04 03:28:00 | Spend some time tweaking windows 8 to look like 7 ? There are replacement start menus available and desktop versions of all the apps included you can associate everything with so you never have to visit the start screen. With a little effort it can be much the same. Still if they really want 7 they'll have to buy it as mentioned. The HDD should be under warranty if it's new enough to have 8 on it so I'd get a warranty claim underway now rather than anything else - install whatever OS they want when the drive is replaced. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1369339 | 2014-03-10 03:58:00 | Try Classic Shell. | PeterE (6851) | ||
| 1369340 | 2014-03-10 07:42:00 | Classic Shell and 7 Taskbar Tweaker should solve most of your problems in getting Windows 8 to work mostly like Windows 7, that said, it will still look different, what with the ribbon in Explorer etc. Scratch that, if you hate the ribbon: winaero.com |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1369341 | 2014-03-10 18:51:00 | Stick with it because they have paid for and will have to pay again for Win 7 Install a third party start menu as others have said to negate them very little involvement in Metro and with the official release next month of "update 1" this will give them more enhancements to make it better to live with Also with Windows 9 Release April 2015,there maybe a financial advantage in the upgrading winsupersite.com Windows 9 beta is also due next month for Release which should be very interesting due to some of the possible idea's being floated |
Lawrence (2987) | ||
| 1369342 | 2014-03-12 05:18:00 | I have seen this in action, looks pretty close to Win 7 format www.stardock.com LL |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 1369343 | 2014-03-12 05:28:00 | Start8 is pretty good. I use it on here. And its pretty cheap to buy | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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