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    Disabled Secure Boot but still cannot see my cd boot

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Atk-Pasi, Jul 21, 2013.

  1. Atk-Pasi

    Atk-Pasi Notebook Guru

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    I still cannot see my intallation cd in boot menu, what I need ti do more?

    Enabled CSM or something like that and now it is intalling win 7
     
    Atk-Pasi, Jul 21, 2013
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  2. ibbi1337

    ibbi1337 Notebook Consultant

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    yes you have to disable secure boot and enable CMS as it is the interface that Win 7 and earlier use to run

    Just removed this POS Windows 8 as well and installed 7 pro

    my benchmarks are 15% higher in Win 7 in all aspects, ranging from 3DMark to AS SSD Benchmark
     
    ibbi1337, Jul 21, 2013
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  3. TANWare

    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    So my guess here is you now are a win7 convert as well...........................
     
    TANWare, Jul 21, 2013
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  4. ibbi1337

    ibbi1337 Notebook Consultant

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    yes bro, here is my story

    I bought this laptop (in sig) it had Win 8 on it. I immediately formatted and installed windows 7 then ran all the benchmarks like AS SSD, Crystal DiskMark, 3DMark, etc.

    then I thought no let me try to get used to Win 8 the boot time / restart time is much better so i formatted again, wasting a full day reinstalling all apps...but my benchmarks dropped significatnly by 15% in all benchmarks. so back on the trusty windows 7 and never going back to 8 again
     
    ibbi1337, Jul 22, 2013
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  5. S.SubZero

    S.SubZero Notebook Deity

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    I have seen some situations, like on certain Dells, where if the UEFI is set to UEFI boot, and the disc you're trying to boot can't boot in UEFI, the device itself won't show in the boot menu. Verify your Windows 7 disc is a proper original disc. You could also just not UEFI boot.
     
    S.SubZero, Jul 22, 2013
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  6. ibbi1337

    ibbi1337 Notebook Consultant

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    you can create a GPT/UEFI USB disk using Rufus

    just extract your Windows DVD to an ISO and let Rufus help you do the creation easily
     
    ibbi1337, Jul 22, 2013
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