Acer V5-132p Win 7 Driver Issue

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Theo Matthews

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Recently I offered to fix a laptop for a friend who had a very nasty virus on the laptop. He told me he didn't care about the files on there, so I wiped it using DBAN and installed windows 7. Problem with this is this laptop was shipped with windows 8 so I can't seem to find any drivers that will work with this laptop on win 7.

I was wondering if any knew of how I could get drivers to work on this laptop on windows 7, as surely acer should anticipate customers wanting to dual boot and install for example windows 7. Or am I going to have to just install windows 8 again on the laptop?
 
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Phillip Corcoran
If Acer don't have Windows 7 drivers for that model, you'll have to stick with Windows 8.

"surely acer should anticipate customers wanting to dual boot and install for example windows 7"

You're forgetting, when Acer commission a company to re-write or create new drivers, it costs them money.
That kind of work doesn't come cheap.

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If Acer don't have Windows 7 drivers for that model, you'll have to stick with Windows 8.

"surely acer should anticipate customers wanting to dual boot and install for example windows 7"

You're forgetting, when Acer commission a company to re-write or create new drivers, it costs them money.
That kind of work doesn't come cheap.

 
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didn't think of it in that way good point. ah well, windows 8 it is then, also thanks for the reply
 
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