How to remove Windows 8 and install Windows 7 in an Acer Aspire One 756

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Blog post: http://lowendguru.com/2016/03/remove-windows-8-install-windows-7/ Here I show how to remove the Win8 that comes with the Acer Aspire One 756 and replace it with a Win7 from USB drive. The BIOS has to be correctly set up to allow "Legacy BIOS" boot mode. Also, the Win8 GPT protection has to be removed when the installer reaches the point of having to select the partition where Win7 will be installed. You will se a message saying something like "windows cannot be installed on this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style" To do so you have to press Shift + F10 and a console will show up. In the console you can call the "diskpart" command to use the disk partition utility. Use the following commands: - To see a list of available disks: list disk - To select a disk (I'm using 0 as the disk number in my example): select disk 0 - To see available partitions: list partiiton - To remove all partitions from the selected disk and also remove the GPT protection (WARNING: This completely deletes all partitions from the selected disk): clean - You can check that the partitions where deleted by listing the partitions again: list partition To learn how to prepare the USB drive with the Win7 installer check my other video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHk1zF... For more tutorials go to: http://www.lowendguru.com

Comments

  1. the best clip
  2. i pressed shift+f10 and nothing happen
  3. Will this go work from 10 home to 7 pro?
  4. i try, but wont enter f2 or f8 even f12. what to do?pls help
  5. Thanks a lot man. God bless ☺☺☺
  6. thank you realy much i thougt i cant install windows 8.1 on my stupid acer laptop but you saved my laptop ty m8
  7. buenísimo todo me salio perfecto mil gracias
  8. Genio!
  9. me ajudou muito, funcionou perfeitamente. obrigado
  10. Tnx dude it really helps, GODSPEED
  11. thank you so much
  12. that worked!!! thanks
  13. GRACIAS!
  14. acer model no n16q6
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  18. thx bro helped a lot
  19. Great tutorial. All steps to a point. Nice work. Thanks!
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