Trouble installing Windows 7 on MSI GT70-ONE

Hi all,

I literally received my GT70 today and it has come with windows 8 on it, having spend most of the day using it I have decided it's not for me. I managed to get the BIOS to let me boot from DVD but once the install starts, I get the four coloured dots animation that then gets stuck and will not do anything else (I have left it for 10 minutes). I have done this using my MS DVD and the ISO with SP1 on it. Having done some research I think it may have something to do with the BIOS being a windows 8 one? Does that sound right? Or am I just being a numpty?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Scott.

 

Yep, that sounds about right! Have you checked your secure boot settings, and/or tried booting from a USB thumb drive? If the SLIC can't reference the Windows 8 key during the install process, then it is going to cause problems.

 

Go into the bios look under security settings. You will see secure boot.
If its greyed out set a Supervisor password it will then allow you to then change secure boot from enabled to disabled.

Clean the Supervisor password off by setting password again but leave the passwords blank then save and reboot.

 

Hey, did you ever figure this out? Im same exact boat except on the GT70 dominator pro 890.

Installs fine (but from within windows and then it restarts, and then hangs on starting windows with the windows flag glowing)

 

Before going through with the whole Win7 installation, have you tried using the classic shell software or others that make windows 8 behave more like windows 7?

It made things much easier for me at first, when I was screaming at windows 8 for being so... different and weird hahaha. Now used to windows 8 and it works, even if I prefer 7

Anyways to install windows 7 you better follow a guide. I think there is one around here.

 

Make sure to generate a recovery disc set using MSI BurnRecovery utility first for future use purposes.
You will need to switch UEFI to Legacy mode in the BIOS first.
Then boot to Win7 installation, use SHIFT + F10 to access command prompt.
Run diskpart to clean the HDD to allow a clean install.

 

This is actually good advice. It's been a while since I created a recovery disc but the time comes when I regret that part hahaha

 

diskpart isn't really necessary for a clean installation, but it helps when needing to convert a disk from GPT to MBR - which may be required when enabling Legacy BIOS in lieu of UEFI.

 

It's the best one for all solution since GPT partitions are most likely encountered from Win8/8.1 systems, and users cannot delete recovery partitions with the installer.