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Windows 8 problems

Amalphia
Level 7

‎11-30-2012 07:01 PM - last edited on ‎03-06-2024 06:42 PM by Community Admin

Have a new G75VW with a preinstall of windows 8 on it. For the last week this has given me nothing but trouble. It crashes when just using Internet Explorer, it crashes installing a program, it's driving me nuts. So I went and bought a copy of Windows 7 Pro to put on the machine. I cannot figure out how to get it to install. Windows 8 seems to have locked down every part of the drive. I cannot run a format disc, I cannot run a memory test, and I cannot run the Windows 7 install disc.

Does anyone know of a way to delete windows 8 from the system so I can install an O/S that works?
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Area_66
Level 11

‎11-30-2012 07:05 PM

You have to disable Secure Boot in the BIOS

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/13326-downgrade-windows-8-windows-7-a.html
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Area_66
Level 11

‎11-30-2012 07:06 PM

You have to disable " Secure Boot " try a BIOS reset
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Amalphia
Level 7
In response to Area_66

‎11-30-2012 07:11 PM

I already did. Sorry I've been working on this all day. I have disabled secure boot up. I have changed the boot order (and it STILL doesn't boot a linux disc). I have run 2 different copies of the Windows 7 pro disc to make sure one wasn't bad. I have tried running the Win7Pro setup from both inside windows 8 and from the bios command. Win7Po gets to the shiny 4color Starting Windows screen and freezes there.
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Amalphia
Level 7
In response to Chino

‎11-30-2012 09:49 PM

Yes I have. I have also tried forcing a boot from disc and forcing boot through the BIOS. I would love a way to format the HD into one partition to just install Win7Pro. I am not interested in keeping Win8Home, I can always buy Win8Pro later if I want to.
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Chino
Level 15
In response to Amalphia

‎11-30-2012 10:24 PM

Amalphia wrote:
Yes I have. I have also tried forcing a boot from disc and forcing boot through the BIOS. I would love a way to format the HD into one partition to just install Win7Pro. I am not interested in keeping Win8Home, I can always buy Win8Pro later if I want to.


Can you post a screenshot or list the startup device boot options here?
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1m04t41
Level 7
In response to Chino

‎11-30-2012 10:09 PM

I think he's trying to get rid of EUFI ? I've been trying to do the same for days now. Windows 8 is garbage, if I had even half a brain I would have looked into it before buying a system with this trash on it. Sorry but Microsoft's monopoly on windows games is bull**** and if it wasn't for that, I wouldn't go near it. Thanks for giving us money, now what you paid for Isnt really yours and its going to tell you what you can and cant do with it. No thanks.
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rewben
Level 13

‎11-30-2012 10:26 PM

@Amalphia, you have to disable secureboot and enable launch CSM.
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Amalphia
Level 7

‎11-30-2012 10:51 PM

I am trying to just blow away everything on the drive and have just one partition to install 7 on. I'm sick of fighting with 8. I am done with it. I don't want to buy a new hd either. The one it came with is good.
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