L540 Windows 7 mit UEFI

Hallo Leute,
ich möchte auf meinem L540 Linux und Windows parallel betreiben. Dazu will ich zunächst Windows 7 mit UEFI installieren. Habe schon alles versucht, aber ohne Erfolg. Ich will natürlich meine mit dem ThinkPad erworbene Windows 7-Lizenz verwenden (64 bit). Wie geht das?
Vielen Dank!

Hallo Leute, danke für Eure Antworten. War zuletzt sehr beschäftigt und antworte deshalb erst jetzt.
Ich habe meinen L540 im Feb. 15 gekauft. Im Jahr 2015 sollte man erwarten dürfen, dass Rechner mit UEFI ausgeliefert werden. Nicht so bei Lenovo! Die Chinesen verkaufen ihre Rechner immer noch mit BIOS und werden voraussichtlich erst mit der nächsten Chipsatz-Generation auf UEFI umstellen. Wenn man also den Boot-Vorgang anhält, landet man im klassischen BIOS, wie 1990 (unglaublich!).
Da ich Windows 7 und Linux (Ubuntu) parallel laufen lassen wollte, habe ich mir vorgenommen alles auf UEFI-Basis neu aufzusetzen. Doch so einfach macht es einem Lenovo nicht! Mitgeliefert wurden DVDs mit Windows 8. Windows 7-DVDs - Fehlanzeige. Also mit dem Lenovo-Tool "Factory Recovery Disks" zunächst die Windows 7-Recovery DVDs erzeugt. Danach versucht davon zu booten. Aber es war nicht möglich Windows 7 als UEFI zu istallieren. Es gab einfach keine Auswahlmöglichkeit für UEFI.
Laut https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/tkb/articleprintpage/tkb-id/Special_Interest_General@tkb/article-id/22
soll es aber möglich sein Windows mit UEFI zu installieren. ???
Daraufhin habe ich einfach Ubuntu installiert. Und es hat funktioniert!
Ubuntu ersetzt die MSR durch den Code des Linux-Bootloaders GRUB.GRUB kann dann wahlweise Linux starten oder in den Windows-Bootloader verzweigen. Beim Start des PCs bietet dann GRUB eine Auswahl der Betriebssysteme an.
Bei meinen Recherchen bin ich auch auf das Problem mit dem Linux-UEFI-Bug gestoßen. Linovo hat diesen Bug 2014 beseitigt, sodass es bei mir keine Probleme gab. Hier noch einpaar Links dazu.
http://www.heise.de/-1793534.html
http://www.heise.de/-1794889.html
Hoffe ich konnte mit diesem Beitrag anderen helfen.
Gruß

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When I reboot and choose to boot from the USB using F9 boot menu, the computer continues to load my current system from my HDD and not the UEFI from the USB.
(I used the same USB and Windows 7 and succesfully installed windows in UEFI mode on my desktop machine but the laptop doesn`t want to recognize the USB as a bootable.)
I tried to put the USB on different slots but that doesn`t help.
Tried to boot from the UEFI USB drive in Legacy boot mode in BIOS, but no result.
My sistem is as follows:
System Model HP ProBook 4540s
BIOS Version/Date Hewlett-Packard 68IRR Ver. F.40, 29-Jan-13
SMBIOS Version 2.7
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3230M CPU @ 2.60GHz, 2601 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
I searched the HP forum and the internet for a solution but nothing helps.
Cindly ask for support. Do anyone have or resolved the same problem?
Regards.

UEFI will not permit Windows 7 install did you disable that to Legacy Bios boot?
If not sure follow this help?
Boot to UEFI Mode or Legacy BIOS mode
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