Help with Windows 7 install please? Thank you :)

[KUPOkinz]

Hello. Some may help me please? I am wanting to install (personal reasons, dont ask lol) Windows 7 on my HP 15-au010wm Energy Star laptop. I am able to install it using USB 3.0 drivers but it will crash under Legacy mode with a blue screen when the initial install is finished and it's rebooting, and in UEFI mode it will crash with Starting Windows screen with a horizontal red bar across the top of the screen, again after finish install and it is rebooting to windows the first time. 

I hav almost giving up when I noticed a topic with the same question as mine and laptop model, a fella name Paul has managed to solve it! https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/Needing-help-with-drivers/td-p...

I am not the best at this and am in hopes someone could help me like he has that person because as you can see, he is able to boot into a successful windows 7 and even install drivers 

 Too add things I have tried, Standard Windows 7 64 image flashed with rufus in both GPT and MBR with installs under (both file types tested) using Legacy and UEFI modes. I also used the Gigabyte image tool in case of USB 3.0 drivers. 

Please help and thank you! 

 I am glad to see it can be done!

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

You have to install W7 in legacy mode with legacy mode enabled and secure boot disabled in the BIOS.

If you are using a USB flash drive to install W7, you can now use this tool to put the USB 3 drivers into your W7 USB installer.

https://download.gigabyte.com/FileList/Utility/mb_utility_windowsimagetool.zip

Here is a video that shows how the above tool works...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=f1hQv9IIAe4&feature=emb_logo

After W7 installs, you can follow the rest of the info I posted on that other link.

[KUPOkinz]

Paul! Yay! Okay so the issue I am running into is the blue screen and the red bar in either Legacy or EUFI mode. Do I install using MBR or GPT? I will watch the video, thank you mate, I will refresh every few minutes for help!

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

You install in legacy with the drive formatted MBR.

I have no idea why you are getting the blue screen and red bar occurrences.

[KUPOkinz]

I am getting them on 2 seperate laptops, my HP 010 and my HP Stream 😞 I will try another iso Paul

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Another thing you can do since your notebook has a DVD drive would be to install W7 using a DVD and you shouldn't encounter any issues.

You would need to have a W7 ISO file that you can burn to a DVD using the tool that I zipped up and attached below that will transfer the ISO file to a DVD so that it is bootable.

With a DVD, there are no issues with USB 3 stuff getting in the way.

If the HP Stream has an eMMC drive you cannot install or run W7 on that machine.

No W7 eMMC storage controller drivers were developed, so W7 will not find the drive.

[KUPOkinz]

I have installed Window 7 on it before tho Paul I just do not remember how because I'm slow lol 😛 I will try using the steps you gave after it flashes using the tool. Thank you very much for the fast response, it seems your job is very busy! Windows 7 installs to the 32gb drive on the HP stream, it has just been crashing when restarting to Staring Windows screen. The same with the 010.

[KUPOkinz]

If this does not work, I will reinstall 10 on the stream so I can try again to install 7 on the 010 (that way I have 1 working pc haha). 

[Paul_Tikkanen]

That is a good idea.

If you let me know the full model number or product number of the HP stream you have, I'll see if it is doable.

[KUPOkinz]

HP Stream 14-ax020wm, thank you very much 🙂