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‎02-02-2017 11:30 AM

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Product: HP Pavilion 17-ab002na
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I have just bought a new HP Pavilion 17-ab002na which runs Windows 10.

I have been using Windows 7 for 5 years and I love it / understand it.

Is it possible to uninstall Windows 10 and install 7 instead ?

Thanks

 

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‎02-02-2017 11:34 AM

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http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/windows/how-downgrade-windows-10-uninstall-win-10-reinstall-window...

 

You should be able to but remember not to delete the recovery partition which i did once. 

 

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‎02-02-2017 11:50 AM - edited ‎02-02-2017 11:50 AM

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Thanks for your reply, I havent upgraded from 7 to 10 though, my laptop is brand new  - got it today and I have installed 10 as part of prompted steps by HP. I dont have any files on it yet to back up.

Can I uninstall 10 completely and then install 7 instead ?

Thanks

 

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‎02-02-2017 11:52 AM

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Yeah of course but dont delete your recovery partition you may need to install windows 7 from disk or use a usb disk to install windows 7 from. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOzfv6qszuo i know you may know how to do it already but i provided you a link already for you. Hope I helped you. 

 

Let me know how you get on. 

 

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‎02-02-2017 12:54 PM

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@PaulieV

 

Just to let you know that there are no offical HP W7 drivers for your model.

 

http://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/HP-Pavilion-17-Notebook-PC-series/10862170/model/122...

 

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‎02-02-2017 01:04 PM

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Yes it is possible to install windows 7 instead of windows 10 just dont delete the recovery partition just incase you want to go back at all. 

 

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‎02-02-2017 03:46 PM

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Hi, @PaulieV :

 

If you decide to install W7 64 bit, you should be able to use all of the W7 x64 drivers and software from the 15t-ab000 on your model, except the BIOS and firmware files.

 

http://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/HP-Pavilion-15-ab000-Notebook-PC-series/7771366/mode...

 

Because your notebook has the skylake chipset, you will need to run this tool to put the USB3 drivers on your Windows installation flash drive.  There is a readme file on the page for how to use the tool.

 

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25476/Windows-7-USB-3-0-Creator-Utility

 

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