Trying to install Windows 7 64 bit Pro and having trouble.....

[AV1611]

My wife's new laptop came with Windows 8, which I despise. I bought her a 240 GB SSD to speed up her laptop. After physically installing the new SSD I booted to the laptop BIOS and set the computer to boot from USB first. I have an image of Win 7 Pro 64 bit. I used Win 7 DVD/USB Download Tool to format a USB stick and copy the .iso to it. When I plug the stick into the the new laptop and reboot I get this error, "Reboot and select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key". I've plugged the usb stick into another computer and clicked on the install icon from within Win 7 and it starts copying Win 7 files. What gives with the wife's laptop???

 

[VirtualLarry]

Are you trying to boot UEFI? You can't use the MS ISO Tool to boot Win7's installer for UEFI, as I understand it.

 

[AV1611]

Bingo!!!!!! Won't work in UEFI mode. Change to CSM and no problem.

 

[AV1611]

Thanks, VirtualLarry, you rock! This is much, much faster than installing off of optical disk.

 

[postmortemIA]

Bingo!!!!!! Won't work in UEFI mode. Change to CSM and no problem.

Yep, and UEFI is off now, partitions are made with MBR instead of GPT type.. but shouldn't be a big deal... there's supposedly way to add boot device with UEFI on.

 

[vailr]

My wife's new laptop came with Windows 8, which I despise.

Sorry, but: Windows 8.1 + Classic Shell (a free start menu replacement) = pretty much indistinguishable (from the user's point of view) from Windows 7.