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Kenny Barrix

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Hi there.. I currently am trying to run 2 os on my machine. I have disc 0 running win 8 that it came with. I bought a new HDD and am trying to install win 7 on to it and every time I do it from the dvd it gets hung up during install after first reboot. I put in in another machine I have... and it loaded great but when I installed it back to my new machine it would not start up and system error came up asking to insert the win 7 disk. I tried that to but it also gets hung up while installing.. can you run win 7 on a machine or mobo that was set up with win 8... ANY HELP?
 
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you probably need to fiddle with some settings to get the install to work, I haven't done much Win 7 & 8 dual booting, but with secure boot on 7 won't boot, and with it off 8 won't boot...There's also a setting to switch between UEFI and legacy bios mode...8 needs UEFI and 7 needs legacy. I've only done this on Win 7 era hardware, so there isn't a problem with all this (since it isn't there on pre-8 motherboards). Try changing those settings if you can find them, best of luck
 
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Kenny Barrix

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Thanks for your advice. I have tried that and since windows 8 is the master boot drive it wont recognize windows 7 or the second HDD when I unplug it and reboot..
 
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Kenny Barrix

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Thanx jaxem.. Im trying to find out how to switch between uefi and legacy. What's funny is in bios it starts with legacy first'' Funny.. anyway when I unplug the factory drive and try to install win 7 it stalls right at the beginning when the logo pops up. wonder why bios wont see my second hdd when the first drive I diconnected
 
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Ok.. I tried everything you can possibly imagine and after none of that worked I took the second hd and installed windows 7 on it from another computer. I have I set to legacy with the boot secure disabled. and now I get this error...error 0xc0000225 does anyone have a thought.. Thanks..
 
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Ok.. I tried everything you can possibly imagine and after none of that worked I took the second hd and installed windows 7 on it from another computer. I have I set to legacy with the boot secure disabled. and now I get this error...error 0xc0000225 does anyone have a thought.. Thanks..
 
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