downgrade windows 8 hp envy to windows 7

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scotteeboi

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Hi

Can anyone help, i have an HP envy laptop running Windows 8... i dont like Windows 8 so wanted to downgrade to Windows 7 home premium which i have on disk... i cleared the drive for a new install and enabled legacy BIOS, Windows 7 gets to the end of a new installation then shows a dialog box saying: Windows cannot be installed on your hardware

Can anyone help? or tell me how I can succesfully install Windows 7?

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scotteeboi

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no, sorry, I was asking you if you were saying my laptop would not function properly even if I managed to install windows 7?

I just don't like w8 and wanted to run w7 instead... but it wont install on my HP envy laptop and was looking for a solution
 
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Those drivers MAY currently exist, HP has released a Windows 7 version of the Envy 15.
 
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jacobian

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Pretty much any piece of modern hardware has Windows 7 drivers. The only issue is that it can be a bit of a pain to get the 7 running on a new PC. The Windows 7 install CD does not have most modern drivers, so after installing it, you can easily end with a machine with a basic graphics driver and one or some of these non-functional: any networking, usb, optical drive, ssd, etc. Make sure to use 7 SP1 CD. Sometimes it can be quite a pain to figure out how to get the driver's installer files onto a fresh Windows 7 machine, but once you resolve this issue, you should be able to find all the drivers, eventually.
 
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