Recent content by melissatree

Alright, I got to the bios screen, enabled legacy boot and am now at the windows 7 install screen. However a new problem arose: "windows cannot be installed to this disk. the select disk is of the gpt partition style" I've tried every drive and I've tried formatting the drives and deleting...

i see a power button which lights up "blue", i press that computer goes into sleep mode. press f12 nothing happens. a google search of "lenovo blue button" doesn't yield much, nor tell me where this button is, user guide doesn't mention blue button either

steps 1-13 is covered by the program I used to create a bootable usb drive step 14 "Once this is done you will need to get a copy of the EFI boot manager firmware file from a computer that has windows 64 bit installed on a UEFI system." I don't think I have a UEFI system, so I can't get this...

Lenovo Ideapad U410 (non touch screen) http://www.lenovo.com/shop/americas/content/user_guides/u310_u410_ug_en.pdf

i don't see that option anywhere, Im not sure I'm even looking at the bios screen in windows 8 UEFI Firmware settings I can select and then I get to a pretty poor "BIOS" screen that doesn't look like much It says: boot menu App menu If i press enter on anything the computer boots up again...

my laptop doesn't have a dvd tray, I have to install using a usb stick. I want to install windows 7 fresh and get rid of everything else my laptop came with, meaning I want to get rid of windows 8. I'll download the drivers online. I can't get my laptop that came with windows 8 to recognize...

I'm installing from the desktop, i just double click the the setup.exe from the usb drive. I don't know how to select where it tries to install windows on, I thought that was done later on in the menu's after i click the setup.exe but it won't let me get that far. I don't think im going to...

I created a bootable usb drive using rufus that has windows 7 on it but when I try and double click setup i get an error code: Windows Setup cannot find a location to store temporary installation files. TO Install windows, make sure that a partition on your boot disc has at least ~700...