How to change Lenovo notebook win8 to win7 tutorial

Note:

1, because the notebook pre-installed Windows 8 system needs to use the UEFI function in the BIOS and the GPT partition table, so the system is modified to Win7 system, you need to delete all partitions of the random Windows 8 system (including Windows 8 boot partition, Windows 8 system repair partition, GPT partition table reserved partition, one-click recovery function partition, Windows 8 system system partition, user Data partitioning and one-click recovery of data partitions), because these partitions are created under the GPT partition table, and Windows 7 uses the MBR partition table, which is incompatible with each other.

2, to convert the notebook pre-installed Win8 system to Win7 system before the operation of all the important data in your notebook hard drive back to the mobile storage media (such as: U disk, mobile hard disk, etc.); Br>

Operation method:

First, the following is the specific replacement steps for Lenovo Y400 and G480

1. The pre-installed Win8 of the YZGN model is changed to Win7 (Y400, G480, etc.)

1) First restart the computer and press the “ld2;F2” key on the notebook keyboard or “Fn key+”F2“ key to enter the notebook BIOS setup interface (if your notebook For Y400, Y500, please turn off the computer first, press the “One button recovery button”, and then enter the BIOS setup interface by selecting “BIOS Setup” in the boot menu;

2) After entering the BIOS setup interface, press the “→” key on the keyboard to move the menu to the “EXIT” project, press the ““↓” button on the keyboard to select the “OS Optimized Defaults” option, then &rdquo ; Enter “ open the election Set the menu, then press the “↓” button on the keyboard to change the default "<;Win8 64bit"; to "Others", press the "Enter" button to confirm, then press the keyboard. On the ”↑“ button to select the "Load Default Setting" option, press the Enter key to start the Restore BIOS default function window, in the window directly press the <quo; Enter & " Enter BIOS recovery on the notebook keyboard Default function;

3) After pressing the “F10” key on the notebook keyboard or “Fn key” and “F10” key to start the BIOS save setting window, press the notebook keyboard directly in the window. The "Enter" button activates the BIOS save settings and restarts the computer.

4) When booting the computer to the “Lenovo” logo, press the “F2” key on the keyboard or “Fn key” to enter the BIOS setup interface of the notebook (if your The notebook is Y400, Y500, then press the notebook's power switch to turn off the computer when the computer restarts to the “Lenovo” LOGO screen, press ““ one button to resume pressing the button”, by selecting “Start” in the boot menu. BIOS Setup<quo;The project enters the BIOS setup interface again.

5) Press the ““→” key menu on the keyboard to move to the “Boot” project and find the “Boot Mode” option under the project. Press the “Enter” button to open the setting menu of the option. Press the ““↓” button on the keyboard to change the default “UEFI” of the option to “Legacy Support” and press ““ Enter [Enter];

6) Press the ↓ button on the keyboard to select “Boot Priority“option, press the ”↓“ button to default the option to &rd Quo;UEFI First<quo;edited to ”Legacy First"; then press “Enter” to confirm. Then press the “F10” key or “Fn key+”F10” key to start the BIOS save settings window, in the window directly press the "Enter" key on the notebook keyboard to start the BIOS save settings and restart Just start the computer function.

7) When the computer restarts to the “Lenovo” LOGO screen, press the “F12” key on the notebook keyboard or the “Fn key+“F12” key to enter the notebook's boot settings interface ( If your notebook is Y400 or Y500, please press the power switch of the notebook to turn off the computer when the computer restarts to the “Lenovo” logo. Press the “One button recovery button” and press the keyboard. ↓” Press the “Boot Menu” option in the boot menu and press the “Enter” button to enter the boot settings interface.

8) At this time, eject the notebook's CD-ROM tray, push the CD-ROM tray back after putting it into the Windows 7 operating system CD, and select the “SATA ODD” or “USB ODD” program in the interface. Click the "Enter" button to activate the CD-ROM drive.

Second, the above is the bios adjustment method, the following is the system installation method.

1. After entering the windows7 system installation interface, install the following steps to enter the win7 system partition screen;

2. After entering the win7 system partition screen, delete all the partitions;

3, after deleting all the partitions, click the "New" button, and then re-create a new partition, (subject to the limitations of the MBR hard drive, so the system installation interface can only be divided into 4 main Partition, if you need more partitions, please partition the system in the system after the installation is complete, see the method can refer to: How to partition the win7 hard disk)

4, after the partition is created, first The partitions are all formatted. After the formatting is complete, select the partition where you want to install the system, and then click the “Next” button to install the system.