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Hello everyone, Today I bought an asus x750jn laptop and it comes with windows 8 by default. 

I dislike win 8 and prefer a dual boot with win 7  and ubuntu. 

When I tried to install windows 7 It just got stuck on the loading of the install and I left it for a few hours, tried a few restarts and nothing. 

Tried to install ubuntu on exe and a bootable drive. the exe always gace me errors and the bootable drive didn't boot and sent me back to the bios. 

I downloaded a copy of win 7 because I thought maybe the disk is damaged but still nothing. tried to install both from bios and exe.

 

can someone please help?  

 

Thank you! 

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Is UEFI enabled in the BIOS? If it's on native mode and not hybrid or legacy you may run into issues.

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Is UEFI enabled in the BIOS? If it's on native mode and not hybrid or legacy you may run into issues.

I looked in every option in the bios and didn't find anything to disable UEFI 

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I looked in every option in the bios and didn't find anything to disable UEFI 

Secure boot?

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To my understanding, Microsoft is forcing manufacturers to not include legacy boot options in newer bios versions, making Windows 7 and other OS installs very hard if not impossible.

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yes, this or... what image burning software are you using?

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you might have not created a boot image just wrote the ISO into it or something of that nature

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Secure boot?

Disabled 

 

yes, this or... what image burning software are you using?

Windows 7 is an original cd and I used the "universal USB installer" for ubuntu

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try unetbootin is the most successful tool for the Linux ISO and the ram might be corrupted based on the frozen windows screen

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try unetbootin is the most successful tool for the Linux ISO and the ram might be corrupted based on the frozen windows screen

Run a memory test? 

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Run a memory test?

run the full diagnostic on the bios and tell me any errors

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run the full diagnostic on the bios and tell me any errors

How do I do that? I have memtest on my pc if that helps...

And it worked fine with no errors so it shouldn't be a RAM issue

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How do I do that? I have memtest on my pc if that helps...

And it worked fine with no errors so it shouldn't be a RAM issue

well then is the disk scratched at all?
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well then is the disk scratched at all?

Only minor scratches. I used it once and put it back in the box.

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Only minor scratches. I used it once and put it back in the box.

how long was it frozen?
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how long was it frozen?

few months, nothing too bad. should I try it on my desktop pc?

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few months, nothing too bad. should I try it on my desktop pc?

I mean frozen during the installation. sometimes it takes a long time to load up the files

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I mean frozen during the installation. sometimes it takes a long time to load up the files

Too long. over an hour. I've installed windows enough times to know it takes a few minutes and not longer 

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Too long. over an hour. I've installed windows enough times to know it takes a few minutes and not longer

it might be a hard drive issue, unetbootin let's you install a bootable and running system on the USB so you can see if the hard drive is at fault

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I think the UEFI won't let me boot from usb http://prntscr.com/515rk3

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can you disable it in security?

Nothing about UEFI in security. nothing about UEFI in the whole bios dammit! 

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ya Microsoft's a bitch about that but I think that the you may still be able to boot to the unetbootin Linux USB you just have to go into boot options and select usb when your first starting up

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A friend recommended to take the HHD out of the laptop and put it in my pc just for installing the os

Should I?

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A friend recommended to take the HHD out of the laptop and put it in my pc just for installing the os

Should I?

You will be able to install it, but you still won't be able to boot into it. The Windows 7 logo will flash briefly on screen but then it will lock and reboot.

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