Windows 7 installation error

[orangePx]

Hello, let me start off rq, so im trying to install windows 7, but it seems like theres an error preventing me from installing the os on LEGACY, which is "STOP: 0x000000a5" , like hell i searched on google for hours and nothing really solved the issue for me, the error told me to update the bios, i did that. literally nothing changed, i tried using UEFI but it tells me "Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. Status: 0xc000000d" ?!!??!? Huh? I tried changing the settings on my bios, My bios is F.73 Insydeh20 Utility, Nothing worked, I tried an alternative way, Which is installing the windows 7 setup.exe MEANWHILE in windows 10, My partitions showed up BUT.. its telling me 

"Windows cannot be installed to this disk. Windows needs the driver for device [Standard NVM Express Controller]. Click 'Load Driver' and load the required device driver.

Windows cannot be installed to this hard disk space. The partition was reserved by the computer's Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)." great, now i just need to find my m.2 nvme driver to fix this issue.....NO DRIVERS FOR MY M.2 NVME SSD??? I SEARCHED EVERYWHERE ON GOOGLE.. EVERYONE HAS A SAMSUNG NVME M.2 BUT I HAVE A SPCC M.2 PCle NVMe SSD.. I really need help asap please. 

Sorry if my english is bad.

Thanks.

[banhien]

@orangePx 

The specs of your machine is

           https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c06069445

It has  Intel® Core™ i5-8250U (1.6 GHz base frequency, up to 3.4 GHz with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology, 6 MB cache, 4 cores) processor. Please try the following way (it is a PDF file):

           https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwitjJzgwc39A...

Regards.

[orangePx]

hey can you give me the "Gigabyte Windows USB tool" Download direct link? I could'nt find it..

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi, @orangePx 

Here is the link to the Gigabyte tool.

https://download.gigabyte.com/FileList/Utility/mb_utility_windowsimagetool.zip?v=37a3501f65c9ac3d4d2... 

I don't like to rain on your parade but you are wasting your time trying to install W7 on your notebook.

Even if you get the NVMe driver loaded, there are no W7 drivers for most of the important components your notebook needs to function properly.

[orangePx]

OK, So I found the download link of the  “Gigabyte Windows USB tool” which was in https://www.mediafire.com/file/b4vxpuw136x6qsf/WindowsImageTool.7z/file and it worked fine, i tried to boot again and i find the bsod error again, any fixes?

[orangePx]

Oh hello again, So you are telling me there are no chances to install W7 on the notebook?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

That is correct.

[orangePx]

Ok thank you for not wasting my time on this error, I think I will just use virtual box for it.

again thanks (:

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

The last platform you could fairly easily install W7 were the PC's with the Skylake chipsets and Intel 6th gen core processors.

After that, it is extremely difficult if not impossible to install W7, and as I wrote earlier, there are many important devices that will have no W7 drivers.