Sunday 15 December 2019

Trying to install windows 7 on a windows 8 computer


I sent my computer off to the geek squad to be repaired, but it was a 'junk out', and thus I received a new one, although, unlike my last one, this computer has Windows 8 installed on it, which I did not want.


I have a windows 7 install disk, but it is not working when I try to install it. When I try to install it, it says that:



Windows Setup cannot find a location to store temporary installation files. To install Windows, make sure that a partition on your boot disk has at least 686 megabytes(MB) of free space. Error code: 0x80070490



Not sure how to proceed.



Answer



You probably need to first disable Secure Boot. Go into UEFI settings, find the Secure Boot setting and disable it. You should then be able to change your boot priority to CD.


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