How to install windows 7 over windows 8 HP 2000- 2b16NR

So, I purchased this laptop at a pawn shop a couple of years ago, and it has served me pretty well up until now.  After the latest windows update, something went terribly, terribly, wrong.  For some unknown reason I am now stuck with Windows 8.1 Evaluation with the license expired, which means it shuts itself down EVERY hour.  I'm done with this, I hate the Windows 8 interface anyway, now its time to go back to something I know and love. I've read up on a lot of these posts, and joined the forums only because I did not see another post that was in direct relation to my own model number.  If someone could please guide me through the process of installing Windows 7 from a disk, it would be ever so helpful.  If you could also post a link pointing me in the right direction for all the drivers specific to my computer, that would be awesome as well, since I'm no techie, and really don't know a whole lot about this sort of thing outside of basic knowledge. Thanks in advance for the help!  

I got my hands on a bootable copy of Windows 7.  Everything loads up just fine until I make the settings to US English etc, and click install, when I do that I get this error message: "The product key does not match any of the Windows images availible for installation.  Enter a different product key." Which doesn't make any sense to me, because since I've had this computer everything has updated just fine, and worked great up until this stupid update to 8.1. That being said, when I go into other options and select 'Reset my PC' I get another error message: "Unable to reset your PC.  A required driver partition is missing."  I've seen on some other posts where having the drive partitioned in the right way (format I guess?) is another issue with installing Windows 7 over 8.  If this indeed another source of the problem, how do I go about fixing it?

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