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spongessuck
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Jesus. Fucking. Christ.

The task: get Windows 7 on my mom's new Lenovo running win 10.

First idea: dual boot. Go into disk utility and shrink win 10 partition leaving empty partition. Easy!

Unfortunately it all went downhill from there.

Restart, can't get into boot menu. Google says you have to do that from Windows. Ok.

Laptop says BOOTING FROM CD IS NOT SUPPORTED. WTF??

Go into BIOS, enable legacy boot, prioritize legacy. Restart. Ok, it boots from disk.

Go to install 7 on the empty partition and it can't because its an unsupported partition format or some shit. Whatever, wipe everything. Ok, installing windows.

Windows installed, need drivers. Go download them with another computer and go to copy them over with USB disk. Windows doesn't detect it. THIS POS DOESN'T HAVE STANDARD USB DRIVERS?!?!?

Of course, the laptop didn't come with any driver software. I end up burning a fucking CD like its fucking 2001 so that I can get the goddamn wifi driver on it.

Ok, I have wifi. Go to Lenovo site, find driver page. Select all the drivers I want for the model/OS and click download. Lenovo site says "hey, use this driver update software." I'm like, hey asshole, why don't you just give me the drivers i asked for. But fine.

Driver update software downloads, I install it, nothing happens. I run it, it says it's already running. Still nothing. What the goddamn flipping fuck?

I go download the drivers individually. I try to install USB driver. It says my system is not supported. .............Try to install chipset driver, not supported. ............ I can install maybe half of the drivers and I still can't even use a fucking USB mouse. Gonna have to wait for windows update to find it sometime two days from now.

I hope everyone in charge of Lenovos fucking ass backwards pointless piece of useless fucking shit drivers gets raped to death with a serrated knife.

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  • 7
    8y
    Windows 10 drivers should work fine, just avoid using the installer, since it checks the OS. Use the Device Manager.
  • 19
    8y
    Not all w10 computers are compatible with W7 and drivers may not work.

    If you really want to make it work put Linux on it.
  • 4
    8y
    I ended up giving my grandparents Lubuntu. Since all they really do is use the internet. The laptop had 1 GB of ram and a celeron processor.
  • 2
    8y
    Linux probably isn't the right answer here.

    Quite often you are just trying to sort out a windows box for a friend/family member - not create a perfect computing environment!
  • 0
    8y
    Just had the exact same problem with a lenovo laptop two years ago. I will never buying another, and that's sad because with Asus it is the second most reliable brand of laptops nowadays (speaking about pc not meant to run 4k movies and Witcher 3 full HD at the same time of course)
  • 0
    8y
    I must confess that I'm finding Lenovo kit very, very unreliable. And yes, the driver and general support systems are dire. And they had that malware thing a while back, too.
  • 3
    8y
    You're using a CD and you're calling lenevo backwards?!
  • 1
    8y
    She does accounting and billing on it and needs Windows for the software she uses for that. Otherwise I might have suggested Linux.
  • 0
    8y
    @BrianValente I'll give it a shot if windows update still can't find them.
  • 0
    8y
    @invoke-coffee This is a 2014 model. I sure hope it's Win 7 compatible.
  • 0
    8y
    This is the exact reason why I hate UEFI.
  • 0
    8y
    @spongessuck oh man I hope it is too! But you know.. windows vid barely compatible with itself
  • 2
    8y
    Of course the drivers don't work, they might be newer than windows 7.

    7 support is done, why downgrade it just doesn't make sese anymore.
  • 0
    8y
    @tahnik CD's are still handy for OS installs. Backwards would be using a tape.
  • 1
    8y
    @spl0 It's called legacy boot for a reason m(25/5)+(9/3)
  • 0
    8y
    @tahnik I neglected to mention that I plugged the old hard drive in with a sata to USB adapter and it told me that booting from USB wasn't supported either.
  • 0
    8y
    @FlrQue long rantLen = this.length;
  • 0
    8y
    @tahnik eh?
  • 0
    8y
    Use this for drives www.ma-config.com
  • 1
    8y
    @tahnik well that's an elaborate m8
  • 0
    2y
    Worst company ever they should just give up. think I'm joking go ahead just give them a call. you'll find yourself very very upset
  • 0
    2y
    @BrianValente lmao NO just no its not windows it lenovo attempting to be proprietary
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