HP Envy 17, Win 8.1 and Win7 dual boot

[SnailsWayne]

Kudos to lasvegaswireman, you are awesome!!! Finally i got it works

[SnailsWayne]

Btw, how can I verified which RAID driver do I need? I am using HP ENVY Touchsmart j137tx now. Preinstalled Windows 8.1 and plan to dual boot Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Do I need to change back the "Secure Boot" to enable and "Legacy Support" to disable after done installing Windows 7 and Windows 8?

[BradD]

Boy, I can not thank you enough. Followed your insturctions step by step and now have Win 7/ sp1 dual booted with Win 8,1.

I tried the same thing with Win Vista, and while the installation started the same, it stopped after the files were installed and it did the first auto restart.

Any ideas about that.

Brad

[Mitch44]

just finished instaling WIN7 32b, yes i know it should have been Win 7 x64 but thats what i got.

HP ENvy 17 Notebook PC

17 - J150 ca

Prod: E8A19UA#ABL

everyting works perfect but these drivers:

1- unknown device

2- Intel NUC HD graphics driver

3- NVidia graphics driver 337.0

any links sure would be nice ......

Mitch

[Mitch44]

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everyting is fixed thanks to my 15 year old son,

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THANKS pRESTON, FOR FINDING ALL TEH DRIVERS I NEEDED.

[AMIT62331]

WHAT IS this   ""Select "Intel RST F6" folder on USB Flash Drive""

[mprados]

It worked !

[FactsConfuseMe]

Hi lasvegaswireman,

Your instructions are excellent and I've followed everything to the letter.  But I'm stuck.  I am using an HP Envy Touchsmart 17t-j100.

In your initial instructions you wrote:

"Additionally, as the hard drive is most likely partitioned as GPT, you will have to boot the computer using the "UEFI - CD/DVD drive" or "UEFI - USB Flash drive" options in the "F9" boot menu. If "UEFI - CD/DVD drive",  "UEFI - USB Flash drive" or something to that effect doesn't exist in the boot menu, please post a screen shot and/or descibe the listed boot options."

Neither "UEFI-CD/DVD Drive" nor "UEFI-USB Flash Drive" are listed as options in the (F9) boot menu.  What is listed is the following:

• OS boot Manager
• Boot From EFI File
• Notebook Hard Drive
• Internal CD/DVD ROM Drive

Using Rufus, I installed W7 on a clean USB drive configured for "GPT partition scheme for UEFI computer".

Also using Rufus, I copied the Intel f6flpy-x64 drivers onto a clean USB drive (FAT32) and loaded the compatible driver at W7 load.

The W7 installer continues to disallow me to install W7 on a GPT formatted partition.

I created a new partition in unallocated space and formatted it.  That did not help.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

FactsConfuseMe

[fauser17]

My machine is

HP Envy X2 PC modèle : 11-g090ef

No bios legacy and SecureBoot or not impossible to boot, even after reformating my usb stick with all the possibilities (Windows7, Rufus, Unetbootin etc...).

This seems to be incredible but i have, i think, tried all of what i know and i am a "semi-professional".

This Hybrid was with Windows 8.1. I have no more retrieving partition or something to come back to the initial installation. Right now i try Win 10 but with a setup.exe file for it is impossible to boot on the Usb stick.

Do you know what to do to be able to boot with an usb stick? i would be glad to have a solution.

[PrfyVdlx]

Some time back in April, I was tinkering with Ubuntu Linux 14.04. I was running it first from the USB, then I kinda liked it. I had to do a partition of my 750GB HDD using Windows, then I did the installation. Of course that went through the steps of setting up Secure Boot, Legacy Boot, etc. Success. 

Then I realized I was too conservative in my HDD division, so I again went to do a re-partitioning, or more precisely, resizing, which went well.

It was on the reinstallation of Ubuntu Linux that I made a fatal mistake: I was going fast, and I didn't notice that my selected choice was not 'Something else' but the first one: 'Erase disk and install...'

And no, I didn't do a back-up of Windows.

And the file recovery process I did was loooooong, loooooong one. And many thanks to TestDisk. It wasn't easy, but I managed to recover my very important files.

Now, having a clean-swept HDD, I did the partitioning to my desired sizes, installed back Windows, then Ubuntu.

I didn't turn off Fast Boot. Just Secure Boot. And followed what others suggested - of course, what worked for my PC.

Unfortunately, the recovery discs that I bought from HP didn't help. I had to figure out on my own how to install back Windows. (I was told that after 3 months, recovery discs are no longer free. So I said, why not then just include the recovery discs? Never mind...)

No, Windows 7 wasn't accepted by my machine, an HP Envy TS-15j127tx unit.

And yes, I am running Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu Linux 14.04. They can co-exist - peacefully.