Despite all the efforts of the developers software V Microsoft They have not yet been able to come up with something better than the simple and functional Windows 7. Yes, we can say with a clear conscience that those who have at least once managed to work on a laptop with this operating system are unlikely to want to go back to their old Windows XP or even the brand new Windows 8. But what to do if you are rewarded with your laptop ASUS failed to get such an OS? What? Yes, install it on your PC and forget about the problem; installing OS Windows 7 on an ASUS laptop is not difficult!
Step No. 1: Prepare the PC for OS installation
Where does any reinstallation begin? operating system on a laptop? Right! With appropriate preparation for it. Note that in order to reinstall Windows, you should initially take care of performing two extremely important actions:
- prepare drivers for ASUS laptop;
- copy valuable data from hard drive.
In principle, each task is clear as daylight. In particular, in order to prepare drivers for an ASUS laptop, just download them from the official website (www.asus.com/ru/) of the manufacturer and write them to a disk or flash drive:
At the same time, no matter how wonderful Windows 7 is, it's worth sacrificing your thesis/ annual report / family archive and other valuable documents stored on the C drive of the laptop would be stupid. In this case, when planning to reinstall the operating system, you should first copy the data from the hard drive to a flash drive or DVD. To do this it is enough to use Windows Explorer and the notorious combination of the Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V buttons on the keyboard.
However, if you part with, for example, a licensed operating Windows system 8 you don’t really want, you can even install it on an SSD. You can read about this “difficult” process in detail.
Step No. 2: Burn a bootable USB flash drive
Note that you can install, as in principle reinstall, Windows 7 on an Asus laptop not only from a flash drive, but also from a disk. There will be virtually no difference in installation (reinstallation) from this. However, based on the fact that many modern ASUS laptop models do not have drives, even if you have a licensed disk with Windows 7, it will not be easy to use it directly. At the same time, a USB connector is available on absolutely all PCs. So, as you can see, the option with a flash drive will be universal.
What are we doing? First, download the original one Windows image 7 from the Internet or copy it from installation disk on computer. Then install the UltraISO program and run it in testing mode (“ Trial period"). In it, through the menu “File” - “Open ...” we add a virtual one for recording Windows image 7:
Now we insert the USB flash drive into the computer on which the Windows 7 image will be installed, open the “Boot” section in the UltraISO program and click the “Burn image...” item. Next, select USB-HDD as the recording method in the new window and click “Format”:
The next step is to give permission to the program to format the flash drive, and then select “Burn” in the new window:
Did you encounter any difficulties with this? Do you want more? Then let's move on to next step installing our beloved Windows 7 on an Asus laptop.
Step No. 3: Perform BIOS settings
In order to install Windows 7 on an ASUS laptop without any problems, you will need to make a number of settings in the BIOS. First, of course, you need to enter it. How to do it? When the computer boots, press Del / F2 / Tab+F2 / Shift+F2 on the keyboard.
In the same tab, find the Launch CSM item and select the Enabled option instead of Disabled for this option. Next, go to the Security section adjacent to Boot and deactivate the option Secure Boot Control using the Disabled parameter. Press F10, save the settings (YES) and exit the BIOS. Now all that remains is to directly install (reinstall) the OS on the ASUS laptop.
Step No. 4: Install the operating system
So, after all the preparatory steps have been completed, all that remains is to install the prepared image of Windows 7 on the laptop. In principle, this process will begin the very minute the computer exits the BIOS. A window will appear on the screen, which will notify you that you need to press any key to load the flash drive. What are we doing? Click, of course, and immediately go to setting up Windows. First of all, select the language, click “Next”, and then “Install”:
After this, we read and agree to the license terms, and then select “Full installation” as an option for installing (reinstalling) Windows 7 on a laptop in a new window:
Now we decide on the disk on which we want to reinstall Windows 7, click on it with the mouse, click “Disk Setup”, and then “Format”:
Note that at this stage Windows 7 may ask you to install drivers. No problem? Of course not, we worried about them at the very beginning. Now we just download them ourselves, using the prompts on the screen:
Step #5: Select custom settings and complete the installation
In principle, in order to reinstall Windows 7 on an Asus laptop, there is only a little work left to do. What will you need? Just select the parameters we need to work on the laptop. You will have to act in this order:
In principle, with the last step the process of installing (reinstalling) Windows 7 on a laptop from ASUS will be completed. Just? What did you think? In principle, there is nothing complicated about reinstalling Windows on a computer! Enjoy your work with Windows 7!
Our patient today is the Asus x541n laptop, which initially does not accept the installation of Windows 7, only Windows 10. But for some reason we need to install an older version. So in my case, a person asked to install an old Windows 7 on his brand new laptop. The methods described below will be useful not only for the Asus x541n, but also for any other new laptops on which you need to install Windows 7 or older versions.
First you need to correctly write Windows 7 to a USB flash drive. In our case, it is better to do this using the “Asus EZ Installer” program; you can download it. In other cases, you can use the “Rufus” program (easy to Google, the first link is to the official website). Below I briefly describe how to properly configure Rufus:
- We select a flash drive on which we will record Windows 7. It must be at least 4 GB in volume.
- Be sure to select the item "MBR for computers with BIOS or UEFI".
- We select the file system NTFS. This is not such a mandatory item, but in this version everything is recorded and then installed as needed.
- Click on the icon under item “4” on the screen, select the Windows 7 image. Place the same marks as in the screenshot.
- Let’s check again that everything has been set up and selected correctly. Click "Start".
Now that Windows is recorded, we need to perform a number of manipulations in the BIOS ( after the settings below, current Windows will stop starting):
- When turning on the laptop, press F2 (or DEL), you will be taken to the BIOS.
- In the BIOS, switch to the tab BOOT(by the way, it can be called Boot Option s) and look for a section with a similar name to "UEFI/BIOS Boot Mode» (or "Boot List Option", or simply "Boot Mode"), in which select "Legacy".
- Then there in the BOOT tab (or in the Security, or System) find an item with a similar name "Secure Boot Control" and select "Disabled".
Above were the basic points that are in any BIOS, now we need to check other settings options. I’ll say right away that they may not exist and it’s not scary.
- In the BOOT tab, look for the item "CSM Support" and select "Enabled".
- We are still looking for the item "Fast Boot", in which you need to select "Disabled".
- Sometimes you come across items with a similar name "Type OS" or "Support OS", in which you can choose directly Windows support 7 and other versions.
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that in some BIOS tabs with the above options may be called "Boot Feature" or "Advanced". But if you can’t find some option in the tab I indicated, then don’t be afraid to just switch to others and look there. Often laptops from different manufacturers have different BIOS structures.
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Today I’ll tell you the epic story of how I installed Windows 7 on a laptop Asus X55A, which already had Windows 8 installed. The task looks trivial. What could be simpler, demolish 8 and put up 7. But it turned out to be more interesting and more difficult, this work took much more time than I expected.
The first problem arose when I tried to boot from dvd drive. There was simply no choice as to what to boot from. In principle, no problem, go to the BIOS and... There is also no choice of devices. This puzzled me a little. The hard drive is registered and you are prompted to add a device. Well, then what is the Internet for, not for sitting on social networks.
After carefully studying this issue, I am sharing the solution to this problem. In the BIOS settings, in the “boot/boot” tab, you need to enable “ Launch CSM". In the “security” tab, disable “ Secure Boot Control". Save changes and exit. Press "F2" to enter BIOS settings again. And here it is, a menu familiar to the eye, with a choice of devices to boot. Boot from the installation disk and install Windows 7.
Here the next ambush awaited me. At the first reboot, the laptop simply froze. The choice of 64/32 did not help either. Everything stopped at loading the drivers for the hard drive. I had to spend quite a lot of time again to understand what the problem was.
It turned out that it was tough the disk is formatted as GPT and accordingly, Windows 7 refused to install. You can find many tips on how to convert a disk to save necessary information. In my case, there was nothing valuable in the laptop, so I simply formatted the entire disk. This turned out to be not enough; we also had to clean the boot sectors from using Acronis Disk Director, from the remains of Windows 8.
That's the whole story. For the most part, many of the problems we face are not unique. But they require time and effort to find a solution that suits a particular case. I hope my article will help someone)
Hi all! Yesterday it fell into my hands new laptop ASUS X501A. It was necessary to install Windows and everything necessary, turnkey in short :). I turned it around and discovered that it does not have a CD/DVD drive. And this means that you need to create bootable USB flash drive and install Windows 7 from it. Drivers for it are also included on the disk; you also need to copy them to a flash drive. It’s actually strange that the laptop doesn’t have a drive, but the drivers are on the disk. You need to put the included drivers on the flash drive, or an external drive :).
Anyway. I created a bootable USB flash drive. First created using special program Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool(I wrote about this), but I’ll say ahead of time that for some reason the installation of Windows 7 from this flash drive did not work. The white cursor simply blinked and the installation did not continue. I recorded it and everything worked. Why this is so, I didn’t bother to figure it out :).
That's it, the flash drive is ready. Now you need to set the BIOS to boot from this flash drive. Now I’ll tell you how to do this.
We set boot from a flash drive on an Asus laptop
We go into the BIOS. For me, and most likely for you, this is the key F2 (if not, then try DEL). Press it immediately after starting the laptop.
The flash drive should already be connected to the laptop!
As you can see (in the screenshot below), under me Boot Option #1 there is a hard drive. And under Boot Option #2 flash drive. You need to install a flash drive under #1.
To do this, click on Boot Option # 1 and select the flash drive. And the hard drive will automatically take second place.
You can return to the previous menu by clicking on Esc and you will see that under Boot Option #1 is installed USB device.
Don't forget to click F10 And Yes to save settings.
That's it, after rebooting the laptop it should boot from the flash drive (if it is created correctly).
There is one caveat. Perhaps I made a mistake when setting the parameters in the BIOS; there I probably just needed to create another boot rule (Add New Boot Option). But it's okay.
If you did everything like I did, then most likely during the Windows installation process, after a reboot, booting from the flash drive will begin. Is it necessary with drive C to continue installation. I'm just at the point of rebooting pulled out the flash drive. And when the download started from drive C, I inserted it back (although it seems that it is no longer needed for installation, the files have already been copied, but I could be wrong).
Possible problems when installing Windows 7 from a USB 3.0 flash drive
You may have noticed that my USB drive with the new USB 3.0 interface. But Windows 7 does not support USB 3.0, special drivers are required.
If the drive itself is USB 3.0, then it's okay. Just plug it into the laptop connector USB 2.0 and everything will work.
This is what a USB 2.0 connector on a laptop looks like:
And this is what a USB 3.0 connector looks like:
The third one is blue and there are two letters SS next to the icon.
Well, if you have everything USB 3.0, then you will have to integrate the drivers into Windows 7. This is a topic for another article. Perhaps I’ll write how to do this. In the meantime, you can find this information on the Internet.
You can also find and download an assembly with Windows 7, which already has integrated drivers for USB 3.0. There are such people.
This site probably contains all the information that may be useful for installing the operating system and for solving problems that may arise during the installation process. You can use the site search. And if you can’t find something, then ask in the comments, I’ll tell you :). Good luck!
How to set to BIOS loading from a flash drive? Some tips for installing Windows 7 with USB flash drives 3.0 updated: February 7, 2018 by: admin
It all started when the above-mentioned laptop was purchased, and the task arose of installing Windows 7 on it.
Purchased without an OS, namely Windows 7, because... So far this is the “corporate standard” and some old programs in the eight or ten do not work very correctly.
I’ll say right away that the beech is designed for Windows 10. The included driver disk contains exclusively drivers for Windows 10. The official website also contains drivers exclusively for this OS, 64 bits at that.
Uncle Yasha brought it to the forum, where it was quoted that, supposedly, this line and the adjacent one are “hardware compatible with Windows 7.” “This is unfortunate,” I thought. No, in principle, I read that it does not support even before purchasing, but the price-quality ratio of the device turned out to be very attractive, and a certain sporting interest appeared. I think I really can’t overcome it?
In general, the word “instructions” in the title is not accidental - this time I won. And now everything is in order.
Preparing the laptop for installing Windows 7.
On various technical forums they write that under no circumstances should Windows installation 7 The BIOS cannot be updated for this unit. It's entirely possible they're right, I'm just not a fan of doing it without good reason. If you have already updated, you need to “age” it, i.e. Upgrade to an earlier firmware. People tried, they say, they don’t get it.
To install Windows 7 on this unit, you need to go into the BIOS and select strictly “non-UEFI” devices as bootable ones. Otherwise the installation will not work. After this, the installation will go like clockwork.
Installing drivers
After the OS is installed, you need to install the drivers. And this is where the fun begins. USB ports, including those that USB 2.0 do not work, so we immediately forget about flash drives, external hard disks and so on. CD/DVD only. If you have the DRP burned onto a DVD (it can fit on a dual layer film), then you don't have a problem.
If you haven’t bothered with purchasing and recording a blank with DRP, then here’s a simple and elegant solution: take an existing CD and install from it... a driver for Wi-Fi. I think there is no point in explaining further - download DRP and install all the missing drivers.
Now criticism may fall on me, like, why invent something when you can just remove it? HDD and write to itDRP. I answer. Anyone who wants can do so, I don’t limit it. I try not to poke my head inside the new device, which is under warranty, unless absolutely necessary.
The only driver that doesn’t exist (well, there wasn’t one back then - DRP17) is a driver for a video card and some other crap.
So that you don’t have to look for it, you can get a driver for video, there is also a driver for USB 3.0, but for this garbage... in principle, you don’t need to install anything. This device only works in Windows 8 and higher, provides some security and is not required. If you are annoyed by this uninstalled device, there is a KB fix on the small-soft website... search for it, in general, but I’m happy with everything anyway:
This is the “Unknown Device” that you can fight with, or you can just spit on it if you are not a perfectionist or a crazy person who is annoyed by any exclamation marks in Device Manager.
That's what it's called. You can score ACPI\MSFT0101 in Yandex and read information on the official Microsoft website.
It is quite possible that the described method will also work on related models of Asus laptops, because Their hardware is quite standard, no revolution has occurred, and the problem only comes from the head. Or rather, from the UEFI BIOS, 99% of the settings of which the manufacturer “carefully” hid from us, so that we wouldn’t cheat, but install Windows 10 and not bother with freedom of choice.
I'll tell you a secret, Windows 8 is installed on these systems with a bang, so if there are fans of this OS, this is good news for you.
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