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Question posted by cnottingham1 on August 6th, 2013

Load Win 7

I have replaced a faild hdd that was windows 8 i am now trying to load the new drive with win 7. it will install onto hard drive but will not reboot to the drive. please help me with this problem

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Answer #1: Posted by TommyKervz on August 6th, 2013 5:14 AM

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Greetings - Well, you need to Disable UEFI and Enable Legacy Boot. Here is more
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2417359,00.asp

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