Windows 7 install on NE72214u-US laptop.

mcbee
mcbee Member Posts: 1 New User
I just purchased a NE72214u-US laptop. It comes with Windows 8 installed, but I prefer Windows 7. I own a copy of windows 7, and wanted to see if Widows 7 would install on this laptop.

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  • JackE
    JackE ACE Posts: 44,904 Trailblazer

    You may run into problems with device drivers by switching to Win7. If you attempt to do so, I would highly recommend that you not alter the erecovery partition.

     

    Alternatively, you might want to consider a Windows 7 emulator or perhaps installing Win7 as a virtual guest on your Win8 host using VMWare's freeware player. I am currently running Win98SE, WinXP, SuSE Linux and Win7 on this machine using the VMWare Player mainly for backward compatibility with some of my older hardware and software.

     

    Jack E/NJ

    Jack E/NJ

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