In the win8 system notebook, add win7 to transform the dual system

Because the system being developed is not compatible with the ie10 and ie11, in order to facilitate the reporting of the project, but also reluctant to give up the genuine win8.1, I finally couldn't help but install the win7 system on the basis of win8, and turned my HP Ultrabook into a dual-system computer with win8 and win7. I usually use win8, and use win7 when reporting, because it can be used in win7. Ie8 or ie9. Originally using a virtual machine can be more convenient to use win7 or xp and other systems under win8, but for reporting, the effect is not good, how to explain to customers that you need to demonstrate the system through the virtual machine win7 system under win8 system ?

The process of installing win7 system under win8 system is not smooth, the first is to run win7 installer directly under win8 system to install, but in the process of installation, after the first restart, it will directly blue screen, prompt To check the hard drive, I tried several times and was unsuccessful. Later, I called HP's customer service. They said that there is no related tutorial, and it is suggested that adding win7 to dual system under win8 is likely to be unsuccessful.

Although the official said that it may fail, I did not accept the account, I intend to try to use the u disk installation method, although in the process there are also many problems, after five passes, the six will finally Successfully installed win7 on the win8 system into a dual system. Remember it.

First, prepare for work

1.1, download win7 64-bit Ultimate, my download address is:

ed2k://| File| Cn_windows_7_ultimate_with_sp1_x64_dvd_618537.iso| 3419052032| 56E90251E665E643C81168F6DD870BCB| h=Q4YDGN3CCNBXHHMBDZJWC3NAG4X635TZ| /

1.2, download the flash installation disk making tool rufuse

http://www.jb51.net/softs/86993.html

The version when using is 1.4. 6, can be used without downloading after downloading, very convenient, and the software size is only 578K, very lightweight, support Chinese.

1.3, download the driver wizard to the hard disk

http://www.jb51.net/softs/83858.html

This is mainly to install the system driver after successfully installing win7 Programs, including sound card, network card, USB, etc.

1.4, use the hard disk partitioning tool to remove a new disk for win7, the size is about 50G.

Use the partition assistant http://www.jb51.net/softs/56714.html, use the tutorial http://www.jb51.net/softjc/57088.html

1.5. Download the intel fast storage technology driver

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp56501-57000/sp56722.exe.

1.6, a blank u disk, the capacity should be 4G

used to make the win7 system flash installation disk, the production will cover all the contents of the U disk, so it is best to blank U disk.

Second, make win7 system flash installation disk

Use rufuse tool to make it, iso file selection has been downloaded to download win7 64-bit flagship version iso, the specific parameter configuration see the following figure

rufuse making win7 system flash installation disk rufuse production win7 system flash installation disk is completed, the intel fast storage technology driver is decompressed into this u disk.

Three, set the HP ultrabook bios

Do not click F10 to enter the BIOS when booting, then open the system configuration, then select boot optioins, set legacy support to enabled, then Select exit saving changes under exit, select yes to save and exit. There is one more step for you to confirm to modify this option, enter a few numbers as required and press Enter.

4. Use u disk to install win7 system

4.1, insert u disk into the computer, press F9 to select U disk boot when booting, generally have corresponding U disk brand, and The word UEFI is displayed.

4.2. During the installation process, if you encounter a prompt, “ The required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a floppy disk, CD…”, pull the USB disk out, then plug it in (you can switch to other USB ports on your computer), return to the previous step of the installation, and continue until you no longer have this prompt to install successfully. .

4.3, installation proceeds to "when you want to install windows", there will be a prompt "No drive found, click & lsquo; load driver & rsquo; provide for installation Mass storage driver & rdquo;, then click & ldquo; load driver & rdquo;, in the "Load Drivers" dialog box, click "Browse", in the browse folder interface, select the intel in the U disk Fast storage technology driver, which is sp56722\\Drivers\\x64 or x32 folder, click OK, the system automatically loads the matching driver. Click on “Next”, you can see all the hard disks on the computer, then you can choose to use the hard disk partitioning tool to split the system disk used to install win7 system, select it.

Next, you can follow the installation instructions of win7.

5. Install the driver wizard to install the hardware driver of win7 system

After installing the driver wizard, you can install the driver of the wireless network card and network card without networking. After installing the network card driver, You can network and install other drivers.

Six, activate win7 64-bit Ultimate

On the omnipotent Taobao, spend 1.98 yuan to activate the 64-bit win7 flagship version, and is permanent genuine.

After the installation of win7, the startup interface of win7 and win8.1 will appear every time you boot, and you can select the corresponding system to start according to your needs.

The above is the whole content of the win7 system in the Win8 system of HP notebooks. I have experienced countless failures, combined with the article on the mother, summed up a set of installation methods. Let's refer to the friends who need it.