Notebooks & Netbooks

[darren]

Thanks lumineers01,

I will proceed with the link given, hopefull i can make use of this very powerfull laptop with a more "down to earth" Operating system.

[ChemStar]

I'm a little confused.  I had been trying to install windows 7 with no success.  I finally see to change the bios to legacy.  I do that, and things start to go smoothly and seem to be working well.  Until I get to the partition list.

I'm not able to install w7 64-bit on any of these, b/c they are in GPT.  I've looked around and seem to only find that w7 64-bit is MEANT for GPT on a UEFI capable system.  But it wouldn't work when the bios was in UEFI!  So is there a way to change the primary partition (number 4, for me) to something that will work? Like NTFS?  Or is there another way to get this to work?

[Keppana]

I am having exactly the same problem and don't seem to find any way to get this work... Just bought a new Acer computer and thought it doesn't matter even though it is running Windows 8 since I have licence key for Windows 7, it should be easy to install new Windows like before. Yeah right, I couldn't be more wrong.

Windows 8 is just useless UI, so hopefully someone knows the answer so my wife can start to use her new computer. Thanks in advance

[Alan-London]

Did you disable 'Secure Boot'?

You can't install OS unless you do.

[HOMMIV]

I have encountered the same problem while trying to downgrade my V3-571G from Windows 8 to Windows 7. After following all the steps mentioned above, with changing BIOS to Legacy and disabling Secure Boot, Windows 7 installation DVD wouldn't install on partition 4, since it's GPT.

You may find this post useful in converting GPT to MBR via command line:

http://community.acer.com/t5/Software-Solutions-and/Dual-boot-windows-7-with-pre-installed-windows-8...

I have deleted all the partitions, converted to MBR and it worked like a charm.

[LeoScott]

For $5 I  bought Start8 and it makes Windows 8 much more like Windows 7.  I miss the Win 7 card games and Skype is still a Win 8 app which goes full screen, but the start menu is back and it is easy to install and conifgure

[Aly]

The BIOS of my V3-571G-6622 doesn't allow me to disable Secure Boot. I'm sick and tired of W8 and I don't see a reason to keep an OS that doesn't work for me. Please help!

[Alan-London]

In order to disable secure boot (if greyed out) you need to set a supervisor password.

Ensure you clear ALL passwords after secure boot is disabled.

[kronusthebonus]

I know I have a different model, but I can't for the life of me get Win 7 installed on a V7-582PG-6421 I have disabled secure boot in the bios, changed from UEFI to Legacy boot, no security anymore. I have a 1TB HDD and 20GB SSD, I even removed the SSD. I'm trying to install Win 7 x64 Ultimate and I can't get it past the partitiion page. I've got into diskpart and cleaned, and partitioned, changed from GPT to MBR, formatted for NTFS, everything I have tried and Windows install still gives me.. "setup was unable to create a new system partition" error message. I'm pulling my hair out now, my USB drive w/ doesn't even work anymore. Any thoughts?

[Alan-London]

I suspect you have created a single partition claiming the entire free space.

Windows 7 is trying to create a system partition of 100MB and can't!

Delete your partition and try to install again. In short, let Windows do the partitioning on a completely blank HDD.