Can not clean reinstall from Windows 10 to 7

[NEONER]

Hello, so my friend brought me his laptop with Windows 10 and wanted me to do a clean reinstall to Windows 7. I first googled a bit and it seemed it was the same process as with Windows 7 reinstallation, however when I try to boot from the DVD it goes to System recovery options not to Windows 7 installation. I formatted all 2 disks with CMD but it still does that. Hope I was clear with my explanation and will be very glad if someone helps me.
Thank you

[keskparane]

If I understand this correctly you are saying that it is still booting into recovery environment. I would presume this would happen because of existing partitions on the disks. Did you run the clean command on the disks or just format some partitions?

[NelizMastr]

You need to manually tell the laptop to boot from DVD, have you tried that? If so, then the DVD isn't bootable or the drive is busted.

[Zmax]

Insert Windows 7 CD in tray then restart you computer. Then try going to the Bios, ( delete on most computer ) you do it, when you see your the logo . Press several time.

 

Then choose the CD drive as primary boot, simply highlight the drive then , do enter.

 

There are video on YouTube on how to do a clean install.

[NEONER]

51 minutes ago, Zmax said:

Insert Windows 7 CD in tray then restart you computer. Then try going to the Bios, ( delete on most computer ) you do it, when you see your the logo . Press several time.

 

Then choose the CD drive as primary boot, simply highlight the drive then , do enter.

 

There are video on YouTube on how to do a clean install.

It is booting frome the DVD, but then it just goes to the System recovery options. After it says Windows is loading files it goes to this

[NEONER]

54 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

You need to manually tell the laptop to boot from DVD, have you tried that? If so, then the DVD isn't bootable or the drive is busted.

I have 2 DVDs, its the same on both, boots from the DVD then goes to System recovery options even though both ssds are formatted

[Zmax]

Are the DVD from the Laptop company. If yes. The DVD are there to do that. They are OEM DVD.

 

They contain the O/S from Laptop manufacturer. They will always do that.

 

You can try to download Windows 7 from Microsoft Web site

 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows7

 

If you do not like link, just go to Microsoft web site and search Windows 7

 

 

[NEONER]

1 hour ago, keskparane said:

If I understand this correctly you are saying that it is still booting into recovery environment. I would presume this would happen because of existing partitions on the disks. Did you run the clean command on the disks or just format some partitions?

Yes, and I was looking a bit and found an X: drive named BOOT, it is not listed in diskpart, i think that is what is causing problems. I formatted both drives 3 times, still doesnt work. Its 34 mb

[NEONER]

17 minutes ago, Zmax said:

Are the DVD from the Laptop company. If yes. The DVD are there to do that. They are OEM DVD.

 

They contain the O/S from Laptop manufacturer. They will always do that.

 

You can try to download Windows 7 from Microsoft Web site

 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows7

 

If you do not like link, just go to Microsoft web site and search Windows 7

 

 

I think his brother built it for him so I wouldnt know anything about that. I found an X: BOOT partition, I think that is what is causing problems but it is not listed in diskpart. Its 34 mb 

[Zmax]

If you download Window 10 , You can format all drive during installation. You should be able to access any partition.

 

Try that

[NelizMastr]

13 hours ago, Zmax said:

If you download Window 10 , You can format all drive during installation. You should be able to access any partition.

 

Try that

OP doesn't want Windows 10.

[ZacoAttaco]

To me it looks like it could be the incorrect Windows 7 installer, might as well double-check you have the correct ISO or installer. Windows 10 could have added a cheeky feature to stop people downgrading although this would be unlikely and hard to implement. It's like the installer seems to see some remnants of the old Windows 10 operating system...

 

I don't know what laptop you friend has, but if you physically remove the hard drive and put into another system, maybe then you can do a complete format. Just an idea.

[Zmax]

7 hours ago, NelizMastr said:

OP doesn't want Windows 10.

You don't need to install it. Just to have access to all the drive and being able to remove any unwanted stuff.

 

Then you can try to install a fresh copy of Win 7

[NelizMastr]

8 hours ago, ZacoAttaco said:

To me it looks like it could be the incorrect Windows 7 installer, might as well double-check you have the correct ISO or installer.

Or possibly, OP is trying to boot with UEFI boot enabled, which Windows 7 doesn't fully support, hence why it's booting from the first entry on the EFI partition.