How to Install Windows 7 Without the Disc

graham (chickenman) · Senior Member

How to Install Windows 7 Without the Disc

bill12 · Guru

Tried to get rid of win 8, but failed after much trying. 7 was much better.

graham (chickenman) · Senior Member

Bill 12, sad to say you can only upgrade and cant put a previous version on you computer.

Windows xp I feel was the best out of the whole lot, only way as I see it to get win 7 back on is maybe a new hard drive?

Roving-Dutchy · Guru

If your drive has plenty of spare capacity you can partition your drive and put windows 7 in the partition and you can then boot up whichever operating system you require.

If you are on a pension and your local computer service guy has the authorisation from Microsoft he can install win 7 for a very low price, in my case I had Win7 and Office installed on a refurbished computer for $50 and he should be able to partition you drive without charging too much.

Cheers

David

graham (chickenman) · Senior Member

Try this in google it may help you bill 12

https://www.google.com.au/#q=how+to+partition+a+hard+drive+to+put+windows+7+over+windows+8

bill12 · Guru

I.ve got this big hammer..........

graham (chickenman) · Senior Member

Do you have friends with a 12 yr old? if so they do it in a breeze for you lol

exa41 · Guru

In windows 8 , one side is windows 7 and the other Metro , why not use the windows 7 side and not metro. When I got mine , I wanted 8 OFF but a guru mate of mine assured me that 8 was far better and faster and now 12 months later I probably agree , what he said was just persevere for a while ,

Santa · Guru

exa41 wrote:
In windows 8 , one side is windows 7 and the other Metro , why not use the windows 7 side and not metro. When I got mine , I wanted 8 OFF but a guru mate of mine assured me that 8 was far better and faster and now 12 months later I probably agree , what he said was just persevere for a while ,

I agree with your mate Exa, have been running Windows 8 for about 6 months, upgraded from XP, bit of a learning curve, no big deal, nothing the average person couldn't master in a week or so.

It's a good OS, have had no problems. smile

NeilandRaine · Guru

Just clic onto desktop and 8 becomes 7

Murraman · Senior Member

To down grade your operating system from win 8 you just need Gparted it is free and will give you access to your hard drive partition table etc. I just remove the partition, re create and re format it to NTFS or whatever you think or leave it raw. Then just reload the CD of choice say win 7 and it will happily comply to install.

Download Gparted and burn the image to DVD or CD and shut down your computer and then restart it, If it doesn't start Gparted you will have to alter your BIOS to boot off your DVD drive first. It is not that hard just a bit of know how.