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‎03-09-2017 02:11 PM

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Product: Hp Envy 13-d061sa
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

My Hp Envy 13-d061sa came with Windows 10 preinstalled. I use Linux so I have installed Linux Mint alongside. There are times that I need to use windows but I hate 10. I have a copy of Windows 7. Is it possible to install this on this laptop?

I have secure boot currently disabled but want to know before deleting paritions etc...!

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‎03-09-2017 04:15 PM

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Hate is a strong word. This is an operating system. Anyway, your laptop uses a Skylake Intel 6th gen processor. Windows 7 can be made to run on it but not easily. Drivers are hard to find for example, but if you must, it can. You will have to reinstall Linux as well. Always best to install Windows then Linux to let the Linux bootloader pick up the already existing Windows install and give you an option screen for booting Windows or Linux. Very hard to install Windows over Linux and have GRUB work right or be able to boot into Linux at all after installing Windows over it. 

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