downgrade to windows 7? - Acer Community

apm · 2012-12-26T09:33:50+00:00

Hi, I am going to buy a new Acer laptop for my daughter but do not want Windows 8 so I have a few questions. I have searched the forums but can not find any similar previous questions. 1) Is it possible to downgrade to Windows 7 on all new Acer laptops or are some incompatible? 2) If it is possible to downgrade to Windows…

ben_berg

My system: Acer Aspire V3-771G, i7, 16Gb RAM, 128Gb SSD, 750Gb HD, 17,3" FullHd etc.

Because I did not like to work with the preinstalled Windows 8 I had the same problem.

You need to buy a Windows 7 edition of your choice to install it on your Acer Notebook.

Make the recovery partition media (USB HD, Flash drive etc.) with the Acer Recovery Management,

you never know what is going to happen if you try to install Windows 7 on a Windows 8 system.

Don't forget to make the Acer App/Driver Backup DVD before installing Windows 7 :catindifferent:

as well, you need it to complete the Windows 7 driver configuration once it is installed.

If you have Windows 8 preinstalled with UEFI BIOS and GPT formatted disks do as follows:

In the BIOS do the following:

In the "Security" tab you need to "Set Supervisor Password" to enable, then

1. set the "Secure Boot Mode" to "Custom"

2. "Erase all Secure Boot Setting" and

3. in the "Boot" tab set "Secure Boot" to "Disabled".

Then reboot into the BIOS (password) and clear the supervisor password.

The changed security options remain after the supervisor password is cleared.

In the "Boot" tab then change "Boot Mode" to "Legacy BIOS" and reboot

and choose by pressing [F12] the CDROM with the Windows 7 setup dvd as boot device.

The installation starts without problems until the point when

it asks for the installation language and the keyboard layout.

If you continue the installation here it will fail to choose the installation drive (GPT)...

At this point you need to convert the SSD and/or HD to the MBR format:

- press [SHIFT]+[F10] to open the command prompt

- type: diskpart [enter]

- type: list disk [enter] shows you the disk(s) of your system

for every disk (0,1,..x)

- type: select disk x [enter]

- type: clean [enter] erases all data from the disk x

- type: convert mbr [enter] converts the disk x to the MBR format

after you converted all the disks to MBR you can close the command prompt and install Windows 7.

On my system the Windows 7 installation was then completed without problems

and I then installed the drivers from the Acer App/Driver Backup DVD..

Nickacer

Hello ben berg,
I got an acer laptop V3-772G 747a model, which i bought it last week. I am pretty happy with the hardware but the windows 8 that the laptop came with is just useless.
Anyway, i decide to downgrade it to windows 7 as i was happy using this version on my desktop. I try two days now to make just a simple format and it seems i try to hack nasa's computer.
What i have done exactly:
1. backing up driver.
2. Enable F12 menu in bios
3. Disable security mode by setting up password and delete it afterwards.
4. Disable network boot.
5. Setting first device the cd rom and second my usb stick
6. Setting bios to Legacy .
For each step i save and i reboot. When i do the last reboot, comes up the booting menu by pressing F 12 and when i choose to boot from the cd rom or from usb stick it comes the "no booting device massage"
Any suggestions or recommendations on that???
Thank u very much for time in advance !!!

Phil-3

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