Dual boot Lenovo Miix 3 -1030

Hello, I have tried every method I could think of, and I haven't been able to dual boot factory Windows 8.1 and Android x86/Linux due to missing usb boot entry in BIOS/UEFI settings. How cand I fix that? Thanks in advance.

I don't have the tablet (yet) but I'm interested in this too. Has anyone got Android x86 working? I saw this post: https://code.google.com/p/android-x86/issues/detail?id=1653 so it seems it is possible. Also saw this page: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Windows-based-Tablets-Knowledge/Miix-10-Unable-to-boot-from-USB-stick/ta-p/1460131 It is important that you have a UEFI bootable USB, not just legacy bootable.

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[SOLVED] Advice for Arch install with rEFInd dual boot Lenovo laptop?

I am trying to plan an Arch install on a new laptop for dual boot with Windows 8.1, but I know there is a potential to cause huge problems so I have been trying to read and learn about the hard disk partition structure and how I might install the rEFInd boot files so that I am still able to boot Windows once Arch is installed. (Unfortunately for some tasks such as updating the maps on my satnav box Windows is essential). However I am really quite unsure if I am doing the right thing in the way I am thinking about the Arch install so I would appreciate any help from experts on the forum.
The laptop is a Lenovo IdeaPad Y510p which came with Windows 8 pre-installed, with the option to upgrade to Windows 8.1. The upgrade was completed without issue and I then looked into the question of hard drive partitions and boot. I had read posts on the Ubuntu forums about users who had installed Ubuntu on this same laptop and ended up being unable to boot Windows afterwards so I wanted to tread very carefully before executing anything which might cause really major damage. I had also read on the Lenovo forums replies about people who had replaced the hard drive and installed linux only to find that they could not boot to the recovery partitions, with replies from Lenovo moderators saying that if the partition structure had been changed then the laptop would have to be sent back to Lenovo for a factory repair.
On this laptop to get into the bios or boot options you do not just press the power button and hit an F key, but instead there is a special small "OneKey Recovery" button next to the power jack, which opens up with options for BIOS setup and boot options as well as normal boot or recovery. This OneKey Recovery button is therefore needed to boot a usbkey - the power button only allows it to boot to windows presumably until/unless a different bootloader and NVRAM entry is amended.
I have done all the initial ( safe!)changes necessary to move to the point at which I can execute the Arch install. From within Windows (switched off fastboot, and shrunk the "C:" drive to make space for linux partitions). I have also switched off Secure Boot from the BIOS, and made sure that Windows still boots up fine.
The current arch install iso (February 2014) boots under uefi just fine - and of course once booted I have access to the gdisk programme. That certainly showed the pre-existing partitions on the drive (8 partitions with partition number 2 being the EFI partition, and three recovery partitions!) with a GPT partition table, and it should therefore be possible to make the necessary new linux partitions in the now unallocated space on the disk that was freed up with the internal disk management facility within Windows 8.1. So at that point I created three partitions for a root partition (type 8300), a swap partition (type 8200) and another type 8300 partition which will become /opt in the installed Arch system.
In order to try and not make any changes to the partition structure I let the three new linux partitions be number 9, 10 and 11.
I am told that for a GPT disk it is a definite no-no to try to create more than one EFI partition. So I will need to use the existing EFI partition to place the rEFInd files and the kernel once I install Arch.
In this (Y510p) laptop the EFI partition contains the following structure:
BOOT/ - containing only boot.sdi
BOOTSECT.BAK
EFI/ which contains two directories Boot/ and Microsoft/
so EFI/Boot/ contains only Boot64.efi which is likely a fallback copy of the Windows 8.1 bootloader
and EFI/Microsoft/ contains a Boot/ directory - so
EFI/Microsoft/Boot/ contains loads of language specific directories like en-GB/
plus bootmgfw.efi (which I believe is the Windows main efi loader file)
bootmgr.efi
memtest.efi
The scheme that I am planning to use which I have previously used in pure Arch uefi machines, is that /boot is a directory in the root partition, /. That way /boot is an ext4 directory and will contain the kernel and initramfs plus the rEFInd linux config file.
Then I can mount the EFI (vfat) partition as /boot/efi and so I can then make a /boot partition under /. Then the EFI /BOOT/ directory would be seen in Linux as /boot/efi/BOOT/ and the Windows efi stuff would be in /boot/efi/EFI/Boot/Microsoft/Boot/ in which case I would presume that I have to make a new directory in /boot/efi/EFI/refind/ and put the refind stuff including the filesystem drivers there, and let the kernel go into the (ext4) /boot/ directory which would be preferred! However I am not 100% confident that this is what will work and I need to read more before trying to do the install. The thing that concerns me is how the system will handle the uefi boot process, and whether it would auto-detect the Windows efi file as well as the Arch refind efi file once the system has started up?
... and then there is the issue of the NVRAM entries and I am no longer confident that if I use the usual tools to create an entry (efiboomgr or bcfg), that I will get a successful dual boot system!
There is still a chance that I would irrevocably damage being able to boot to the Windows and Recovery partition boot options by messing up the EFI and/or the NVRAM so I have to tread very very carefully with this.
If anyone has gone through this kind of dual boot install with a Windows 8 or 8.1 machine using rEFInd for the bootloader, and can offer advice or help here I would very much appreciate it. I have another pure Arch system which uses rEFInd that works extremely well, but it seems that dual boot with uefi is a rather more complex animal than a pure linux system!
Last edited by mcloaked (2014-02-22 10:06:03)

vipin wrote:I have recently bought the y510p , im planning to install Arch , this is my 4th laptop , i had installed Arch in all the other 3 with no problems, but im a bit worried with the installation as this is the first laptop which has EFI , im a linux user for the past 6 years , i started with fedora , now i like Arch , mike documentation is excellent, i just had one question when i had grub , it automatically finds the new kernel when i update (grub.conf/menu.lst gets updated), does rEFInd also do that.
When there is an update to the rEFInd package you need to copy the files across to your ESP from the files contained in /usr/share/refind/ usually you need to copy the refind_x64.efi binary as well as the icons, fonts, and drivers directories. Since there is flexibility in how you configure the kernel and initrd files in terms of where they are located whether you need to do anything else when a new kernel update arrives depends on how you set your system up. If you have the /boot directory as your ESP partition which will then have the kernel and initrd files updated by default then there no need to do anything else when there is a kernel update. If the ESP is then at /boot/EFI and within that is your refind/ directory then that is where the replacement files go if refind-efi gets a pacman update. So it is actually fairly straight forward. If you configure rEFInd to look for kernels in some other directory than /boot/ then you may need to copy the files there after a kernel update but there is more information in the arch wiki about this.
During a refind-efi package update there are helpful files in the pacman output (and log) reminding you of what you need to do. eg for the latest refind-efi update you get:
[2014-06-18 18:48] [PACMAN] upgraded radvd (1.12-1 -> 1.13-1)
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] rEFInd UEFI application has been installed at /usr/share/refind/refind_*.efi
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Other UEFI applications have been installed at /usr/share/refind/tools_*/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] UEFI drivers have been installed at /usr/share/refind/drivers_*/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Copy the efi application (according to your UEFI ARCH)
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] and /usr/share/refind/refind.conf-sample to a sub-directory of <EFISYS>/EFI/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] as refind.conf and add an entry to firmware boot menu using efibootmgr
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] or mactel-boot (for Macs)
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] rEFInd Icons have been installed at /usr/share/refind/icons/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] rEFInd Fonts have been installed at /usr/share/refind/fonts/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] HTML Documentation is available at /usr/share/refind/docs/html/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] More info: [url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI_Bootloaders#Using_rEFInd[/url]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [PACMAN] upgraded refind-efi (0.8.1-1 -> 0.8.2-1)
I hope that helps.
By the way you can also boot uefi using grub and in fact you can get rEFInd to chainload grub as a backup bootloader as an added safety factor and have both rEFInd as well as grub installed simultaneously. How that can be done is explained in the thread at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=181906
Last edited by mcloaked (2014-06-25 17:41:12)

Dual boot ing pre-installed Windows 8 and windows 7?

Hi there
I have a lenovo G505s that came with windows 8 and would like to download windows 7 and have them dual boot for gaming purposes so I was wondering I could get any advise on the matter.

Welcome to the forum!
With Windows, generally you have to install the older version first then the newer with dual booting. Since you already have Windows 8 installed that might be a problem. Also resizing the partitions on your hard drive to make room will disable the option to use One Key Recovery at boot up. If the machine is still under warranty, you might wait till the warranty expires before re-arranging things. Also prior to installing Windows 7, make sure there are drivers available for your system's hardware.
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Dual boot

A colleague has just purchased a new Lenovo (might be an L540 - not certain) and says she has it installed with Windows 7 "with the option of changing to 8".
She has seen me running a dual boot of Win 7 and 8 on an older laptop, and wonders whether her machine as delivered from Lenovo can be set up this way. I have no idea of the licensing arrangements of a new machine, or what disks, if any, that it came with, but am I correct to assume that it is not possible?
Her idea was either to leave bpoth OS's installed and have one set up for home use and one set to match her business network or, alternatively, just to try both OS's for a time to see whether she gets on with Win8.

I'm not really sure about the licensing arrangement, but with my Z570 it was fairly easy to set up a dual boot since my system came with the $15 Windows 8 upgrade offer. That offer included a download of Windows 8 along with the Key for registration.
In order to install your friend will have to do some partition resizing to make room for Windows 8. Since all the primary partitions are currently being used, at least on my Z570, she will have to create a larger extended partitions in which to create another logical partition for the Windows 8 install. The only negative result of the resizing is that the option for the One Key Recovery will no longer work on boot up. If that is an important feature to her she might reconsider install Windows 8 on her hard drive.
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Lenovo C340 i3 System - Dual boot windows 7 / 8 cant load windows 7 please help

Hi there
I have a lenovo c340 all in one pc the i3 processor type which came with windows 8
I have purchased a new hard drive and would like to dual boot windows 7 and 8
I have tried to install windows 7 and the system hangs before I even get into any configuration however windows 8 loads fine
I have looked in the bios and the system is showing windows 8 . has lenovo locked the bios to allow windows 8 only ?
Is there a way to load windows 7 onto the system ?
I really want to dual boot and have downloaded all of the drivers for windows 7 but for the life of me I can not get past the initial boot screen of my windows 7 disc
Can anyone help please

hi botards01,
If you're planning to use linux occasionally (Ubuntu for example) and you don't want to risk losing the One Key Recovery functionality, try to install Ubuntu via Wubi as this doesn't repartition your HDD but creates a virtual disk on your current OS.
Check it out - Install Ubuntu in Windows With Wubi
Hope this helps
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Is this how dual boot works in Lenovo laptops?

I have a Z580 and I've succesfully installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS alongside Windows 8. Earlier I lost my paritions during Ubuntu install and so I had to do a clean install of Windows using the MSDN version and by using the product key retrieved using RWEverything tool.
Here are my questions:
When I boot through Ubuntu there is a pause for almost 30 seconds with a blank screen before the Ubuntu startup screen comes up. Is that how it is or is there a way I can fix this?
When I boot Ubuntu boots well, but the Windows boot option doesn't appear in the Grub boot menu. But if I choose Windows boot option in the Boot Menu (by pressing the small button) Windows boots fine. Is this how it works on the Lenovo laptops? It's fine with me and in fact it's more desirable for me so that I can kinda hide Windows which I rarely use. But I'm curious to know if this is how it works and it's not related to the problem described in my first question.

I do not own the same machine, but I can make the following general observations:
Re: the 30 second pause, does that occur before or after the GRUB menu?
A Windows entry can be added to the Boot menu, which is contained in a config text file.
I don't know what you mean by pressing the small button to boot Windows.
My Lenovo laptop dual boots Linux and Windows (but not Ubuntu, and not Windows 8). The total boot time to Linux is around 45-60 seconds on a regular HDD, and 17-30 seconds on SSD, including Grub. Windows is about 45-90 seconds on HDD, 30 or so on SSD, including GRUB selection. That time is from when I press the power button until the desktop is up and the computer is either connected or connecting to Wi-Fi.
Usually, a longer delay with my Lenovo machine is because of having USB drives attached during boot (though I'm not sure why this causes a delay) or because of updates being installed.
There are log files created during boot time that you could research and read if you wanted to know where each chunk of time is going. I think they are under /var/log/boot or something like that.
Hope this helps some, anyway.
-JV474

Problem in dual boot xp & windows 7--Lenovo g450

I installed Windows 7 & xp and i set up dual boot menu also. The problem is Windows 7 works only with ACHI HDD configuration in BIOS and XP works only with IDE HDD configuration in BIOS. So eyery time i boot other os, i have to set HDD configuration in BIOS. Is there any solution to avoid the BIOS settings change?

Put the HDD to IDE. Install XP, Leave it IDE install Win7 and they both will dual boot. Thats what I used to triple boot.
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[SOLVED] Lenovo T530 UEFI Arch/Ubuntu Dual boot - Arch fails to boot.

Hi All,
I have installed Arch to my Lenovo T530 to dual boot with Ubuntu using UEFI and Grub.
After installation, Arch is presented to me as an option when my laptop fires up. However, if I select it, the loader goes to a purple screen and then hangs.
I have attached here the bootloader scripts for my Arch installation (not working), my Ubuntu installation (working) and the output from sudo lsblk -o name,mountpoint,label,size,uuid.
Please let me know if there is more useful information I can provide. (I have output from Bootinfoscript available but it is quite extensive).
I am hoping to find out if there is an easily fixable error in the booting scripts used by Grub. If not, I have seen the section on dual booting with Arch in the wiki. My worry is that if I resort to it, UEFI looks to be temperamental at best and I risk breaking my currently working Ubuntu installation.
Thanks and regards,
Simon
Arch boot script (not working):
setparams 'Arch (on /dev/sda4)'
insmod part-gpt
insmod ext2
set root= 'hd0,gpt4'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt4 -\
-hint-efi=hd0,gpt4 -hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt4 729b5164-22c4-4c21-8212-\
66038d60943e
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 729b5164-22c4-4c21-821\
2-66038d60943e
fi
linux /boot/vmlinuz root=UUID=ad4103fa-d940-47ca-8506-301d\
8071d467 rw quiet
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img
Ubuntu boot script (working)
setparams 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.13.0-24-generic'
recordfail
load_video
gfxmode $linux_gfx_mode
insmod gzio
insmod part-gpt
insmod ext2
set root= 'hd0,gpt2'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd\
0,gpt2 --hint-efi=hd0,gpt2 -hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt2 542bf27c-0fd5-42\
4a-b4d8-107f7cf97b75
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 542bf27c-0fd5-\
424a-b4d8-107f7cf97b75
fi
echo 'Loading Linux 3.13.0-24-generic ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-24-generic root=UUID=5\
42bf27c-0fd5-424a-b4d8-107f7cf97b75 ro quiet spash $vt_handoff
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-24-generic
Output from sudo lsblk -o name,mountpoint,label,size,uuid
NAME MOUNTPOINT LABEL SIZE UUID
sda 119.2G
├─sda1 /boot/efi BOOTLOADER 524M 9360-2939
├─sda2 / Linux_Ubuntu 34.6G 542bf27c-0fd5-424a-b4d8-107f7cf97b75
├─sda3 [SWAP] Swap 9.8G 7768ae01-6e37-450b-bf0c-d873e3fd06a1
├─sda4 Linux_Arch 32.7G 729b5164-22c4-4c21-8212-66038d60943e
├─sda5 /media/Data Data 33.2G 5a971a77-685b-43d5-a8e6-c7b407a4c2ff
└─sda6 Misc_Data 8.5G b165990d-bd25-458f-b2d6-63fae28d0870
sdb 1T
└─sdb1 1024G a1ee2f60-007a-4292-982b-7d5f8375fc7e
sr0 1024M
Last edited by simon_sjw (2015-03-22 10:43:03)

linux /boot/vmlinuz root=UUID=ad4103fa-d940-47ca-8506-301d8071d467 rw quiet
Change the UUID here. Where did that come from?
EDIT: curiously, if you DuckDuckGo search this exact UUID, it comes up a bunch of times and has caused people headaches before. If you fix that you should be okay. If anyone knows why this same exact UUID would incorrectly be created on multiple systems, I'd love to know. Seems like some kind of issue with dual/triple booting and OS-prober.
2nd EDIT: this UUID is in the default in grub.cfg. For some reason, it sometimes won't be replaced by grub-mkconfig... Maybe the user didn't run grub-mkconfig, but edited the file him or herself? simon_sjw?
Last edited by nullified (2015-03-22 03:12:36)

Stylus no funciona bien en Lenovo Miix 3 1030

Hola a todos.
He probado en la pantalla de un Lenovo miix 3 1030 con dos modelos de stylus diferentes (adonit jot pro y wacom bamboo stylus) y con ambos cuando intento escribir obtengo trazos discontínuos en vez de líneas contínuas. Sin embargo cuando escribo con el dedo sí que funciona bien.
¿Tenéis idea de por qué puede ser?
Un saludo y gracias de antemano.
¡Resuelto!
Ir a solución.

Hola Guimadrid,
La pantalla del Mixx no esta diseñada para stylus.
Posiblemente un stylus con punta de goma te funcionaria bien pero de nuevo, Lenovo no confirma compatibilidad para este producto con ningun stylus.
Gracias y Saludos,
Miguel A. González
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How to dual boot from usb thumb drive in lenovo x1 carbon

How can I boot Lenovo x1 carbon 2014 from an USB thumb drive? It has Windows 8.1. And I have tried disabling secure boot in bios setting. And set usb drive to boot order 1. But that still does not work.

I use the
Windows USB/DVD Download Tool too to create the usb thumb drive. And I use the tool to copy the iso file there.
And when I use that drive on an older laptop runs windows 7. it works.

Lenovo G40-70 : Dual boot windows 8.1 and fedora 22

Buenas tardes Estimados, recurrí al foro porque no puedo ingresar a mi partición de W 8,1 que trae instalada de fábrica la laptop, por motivo que instalé Fedora 22 (en otra partición)Quizas mi error fue instalar Fedora en modo legacy,y cambiar la bios al modo UEFI no reconoce el disco duro por ende no dejar cargar windows 8,1 .,si me permiten puedo indicar a detalle el mensaje que presenta (Imagen) , de ser factible me puede ayudar a solucionar el dual boot sin dañar la partición de Windows (y respaldar información), caso contrario me gustaría me ayuden con alguna ISO original que contenga sus aplicaciones Pre Instaladas ya que me acostumbré a ellas.. y yo proceder a realizar nuevamente la instalación.Esperando su comprensión, me suscribo. Saludos.

No estoy seguro pero creo que cuando se instala Windows se coje la informacion de la licencia de la bios automaticamente, no tiene que ser un disco de recuperacion. En webs de descargas podras encontrar imagenes iso de windows aunque no se si son seguras, tengo isos originales de Microsoft descargados de Dreamspark por ser universitario, no se si hay otros medios oficiales. Yo tambien instale una distro GNU/Linux en mi caso Ubuntu, me documente bien e hice un usb de recuperacion de Windows, tengo compañeros que tienen que cambiar entre legacy y uefi para poder cambiar de SO. He encontrado una herramienta de microsoft para crear un dvd o pen de instalacion http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-reset-refresh-media

Lenovo Miix 3 1030 Folio Tastatur funktioniert nicht

Ich habe vor wenigen Tagen mein Lenovo Miix 3 erhalten und von Anfang an hat die Folio Tastatur nicht funktioniert - ausser das umstellen in den Flugmodus, dies funktioniert problemlos und somit ist es eigentlich gegeben, dass die Tastatur mit dem Tablett verbunden ist. Nach dam Update von Windows und Akutalisierung aller Treiber ist das Problem immer noch nicht gelöst. Sehr schade, da es sich hier an und für sich um ein gutes Gerät handelt, aber ohne Tastatur für mich leider nicht zu gebrauchen ist. Gibt es zu diesem Problem eine Lösung?

Hallo KJAMP,
danke für deine Anfrage und willkommen im LENOVO-Forum.
Seit wann besteht das Problem genau?
Wurde etwas installiert oder ein Update durchgeführt?
Schönen Gruß, Marcel
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Dual boot Linux and XP on Lenovo 3000 J205

I have a 3000 j205 (I think. It says 9686-A12 on the tag) and a friend of mine set it up for dual boot with Suse which works well and XP which can't access the internet. I called customer support and was told that since my mother bought the machine (she died a year ago of Cancer) that they could only talk to her. It's a Vista box that never worked right for her (she gave up after 3 months of trying to get it working, tech support coming out and even my brother and kids trying to make it work longer than 20 minutes on the net) I figured out that the drivers for XP to run the network card are missing. It even sees the wireless router in the line and the Comcast cable modem, but it still swears the internet isn't out there. Any ideas? The original Vista had the same problem trying to access the net.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

I tried downloading the Ethernet drivers on the Linux side, but couldn't get it to cross to the XP side (like I said, I'm a newbie) What I did figure out on my own was to get a Netgear wireless transponder, which allowed XP to access the net and download all the XP updates to SP3 (84 plus!) then it autosearched the drivers needed and voila! It's now on the net!

Running Dual boot windows 8 and win 7 pro with xp mode installed!! I love it!!

It took over 2 days to figure out how to adjust the bios to get my win 7 pro DVD to boot and install dual boot on this GREAT MACHINE!!
Step 1: using diskmgmt.msc you have to shring the C partition. I shrunk it so I had 80GB remaining as unallocated space.
Step 2: You have to enter the machine Bios adn set the BIOS to Both and UEFI as first
Step 3: Connect your usb dvd
Step 4: Put your win 7 pro dvd in the usb dvd drive
Step 5: Reboot your machine and when it starts press F12 to get the boot menu and select the usb dvd drive then press enter
The machine restarts
Message on screen says press a key to boot from cd/dvd
Press space and it boots up the win 7 pro DVD
After files copy and load the setup screen asks to accept the agreement and where to install win 7
BE SURE TO SELECT THE 80GB location
Then follow thru the win 7 prompts to load it.
When the machine restarts you will see a dual boot screen with Windows 7 on top as first selection and Windows 8 below it as 2nd selection.
Make sure to hit enter with windows 7 selected
The win 7 installation completes.
You will see many items with drivers not installed dont fret.
You can load most of the drivers by highlighting the device in control panel/device manager and pick update driver then select BROWSE for DRIVER and be sure to put in drive D:\ which is now the windows 8 drive and hit search.
Many of the windows 8 drivers installed with no issue.
The Realtek driver was an exception .. goto to the lenovo site and pick the x100e tablet and download the LAN driver from there about (4MB). Copy it to flash drive and install it in win 7 from the .exe file. The driver for LAN will install sucessfully. The version of the driver is 7.46 something the 7.11 versions do not workl.
I have only 3 drivers that I could not find - 2 list as unknown and are related to ACPI or power management and 1 lists as USB controller but all the USB stuff works without it.
Be sure to either shutdown the system or sign out of win 8 when your done so you get the dual boot menu. If you shutdown while logged into win 8 the next time you start up it will go right to win 8 until you signout and restart.
Just to let you know an easy way to shutdown is go to the desktop and press ALT + FN + F4 and a shutdown menu comes up on the desktop.
Once win 7 pro is installed you can download the XP mode free from Microsoft and install it.
This is of course AFTER you have ACTIVATED WINDOWS 7 ONLINE with YOUR ACTIVATION KEY(you supply).
ENJOY! This is the BEST machine I ever had!

It's been many, many years since I don't do dual boot anymore. Don't find the reason to do it, either. Different kinds of virtualization should be enough. Anyway...
dfw1417 wrote:
It took over 2 days to figure out how to adjust the bios to get my win 7 pro DVD to boot and install dual boot on this GREAT MACHINE!!
ENJOY! This is the BEST machine I ever had!
WHICH machine?
Cheers.
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Dual boot win7 & 8 on t430

Newbie here needing some help. Just got my t430 fresh out of the box and I want to dual boot win 7 and 8. The installed system was 7, but came with windows 8 recovery disks in the box. I thought dual boot would be pretty straightforward, but I haven't been able to get it going. Any advice?

Hey there giovanni8807, welcome to the forums!
I found some perhaps helpful starting information for you to look over that will help guide you into the process. It is important to note, that you check to see what drivers and utilities are available for your machine for Windows 8. This will give you an idea of what is and what might not be available to function completely in that particular OS environment. Of course, take advantage of the Lenovo Solution Center for driver and utility updates for your machine once getting into Windows 8.
Drivers for the T430
How to Dual Boot Via PC world
How To Dual Boot Via CNet (I personally found this one to be a tad bit more clear.)
Good Luck, and keep us posted on your progress.
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