Dual boot / downgrade win8 to win7

Hi, can someone provide instructions for installing usb win7 bootable iso to downgrade t440 (win8.1). Do i need to delete all partitions or only C:/ trying to install win7 on new partition return errors. Note: my TT40 laptop did not come with backup DVD of win 8. thx

You can keep Win 8ate and just dual booth. I tri boot with these two plus Debian. To accomplish, just create and install w7 in a new partition, 30GB is ideal. Download all the latest updates from WUD and slipstream with 7Lite or WinToolKit for freshest and cleanest install possible. Both tools allow you to recompile, boot and install off a usb. If your w7 iso is without SP1 then just download the latest X17 iso here, it's legit; you'll just need your own cd key to activate with 30 days.
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I have a Lenovo Y40 laptop which currently has Windows 8.1 preloaded, which I unfortunately have to keep for a host of reasons. I've been meaning to install linux on my laptop for a while though, and now I finally have the time. However, I've been doing some research, and there are just too many things I don't understand that are keeping me from just jumping in and installing "on the fly".
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mahkoe wrote:This laptop has a hybrid drive in it, specifically the WDC WD10S21X-24R1BT0-SSHD (I copied this out of the device manager), and I hear linux has problems with that?
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title Windows
efi /EFI/hidden/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
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/boot/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
and I changed
/boot/EFI/Microsoft
to
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Windows failed to start.
File: \EFI\Microsoft/Boot/BCD
Info: An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration data.
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Last edited by jl2014 (2015-04-19 00:03:33)

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> 1- I'm trying to install TOSHIBA Smart Client Manager but returns with warning "Before you start setting up TOSHIBA Smart Client Manager Client, copy an action masthead file for TOSHIBA Smart Client Manager Server to the setup folder." and I don't have that file and installation fails. Where can I have this file for a succesful installation?
This file is not known to me and usually something like that should not appear if you would install the software in the right order.
Before you would start to install any of the Toshiba software you have to install Toshiba Value Added package for Windows 7!
Only if this VAP has been installed and notebook rebooted, you could follow with other tools.
> 2- You have hwsetup software preinstalled on Win8 but I couldn't find that sw / driver, even for Win8 at download pages of Toshiba Where can I get this sw as it gives ability to configure BIOS without waiting for boot?
System driver package which is available for Win 8 is NOT available for Win 7.
Instead of system driver you have to installed VAP!
> 3- I see that the battery is used while I left my device on hibernate. I unplug it from power adaptor after %100 charged and hibernate it. But after few hours, when I turn it on, I see it is %91! I susbect it is becuase of "sleep and charge" option is enabled from BIOS but I need to wait for next boot. Any comments?
Any comments? The Sleep & Charge option as well as other options like Wake Up on LAN or keyboard may discharge the battery. So in case you dont want that, disable this in BIOS
> 4- If I purchase the recovery media online from Toshiba, will this help me to install Win8 as in first boot and create the deleted partitions as in "factory state". In other wprds, will this recovery media will set my z930 to factory state with OS and partitions. OK, I assume this media is a DVD and I know that I need to create a bootable USB from this media...No worries .
Yes

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Greetings!
Its been a long while since I had to dual-boot with windows on the same machine.
I 've installed windows 7 and then arch linux and installed GRUB on my sda1 where the /boot partitions is located at.
I've managed to boot into arch successfully and later into windows also successfully.... but when i tried to boot into arch again I wasn't greeted with the typical GRUB boot screen... grub was ignored completely and win7 booting began as if it was the only OS in my hard drive.
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here is the partition scheme on my 500gb sata drive :
/dev/sda1 /boot 250mb (primary)
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/dev/sda5 / 16gb (logical)
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Last edited by kamigr (2010-01-12 14:35:07)

naequs wrote:
bumping this because i have the EXACT same problem !
however i installed grub to sda1 because i didnt want my installs to mess with each other (not that ive had any problems with grub in mbr though...) .
this just looked cleaner to me.
if anyone has figured out how to prevent windows from automagically changing the bootgflag, id like to know !
but maybe this is a question more suitable for a windoze forum
tia
/edit: seriously, ive been searching the net for some time now, including irc chans and there seems to be no solution to this ! all threads similar to this just end dead !
i hate how windows claims to own my computer!
1. don't necrobump
2. as mentioned in the thread, just install grub to mbr and chainload windows. It works just fine and is the easiest way to get it working reliable.

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Docfxit wrote:
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Because virtualization doesn't support some HW devices I need, I would like to dual boot Win7 Pro/64 on an external (removable) HDD connected to the eSATA port of my Precision M4700.
eSata means optimal performances, but will the boot menu be happy with a removable disk, i.e. which will NOT be permanently connected (obviously I won't boot the OS on the removable disk if it is not connected) ?
And on the legal side, is it OK to use the OEM license of the OS that shipped with the system for this ?
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LinuxChick wrote:I successfully removed Grub and got syslinux installed. I "can" get both Arch and Win7 to boot
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