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November 25th, 2016 05:00
IMPOSSIBLE to install Windows 7
Hello
I just bought DELL latitude E5470 with windows 10 installed on it.
I want to Intsall Windows 7 pro 64 bits because for me it's better. But everytime I want to install it using USB drive I got this error message :
"A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, CD, DVD, or USB flash drive, please insert it now.
Note: If the Windows installation media is in the CD/DVD drive, you can safely remove it for this step"
Please help me to solve this problem
P.S: My laptop is compatible with windows 7 because I have the KEY in the back of it.
Best reagrds
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ejn63
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November 25th, 2016 08:00
It is, but you'll need a customized image to install Windows 7 on this system, due to the fact that MIcrosoft removed the ability to install 7 from flash media on Skylake systems -- there is no native support by pre-built Windows 7 media on Skylake USB 3 chipsets.
You can get a customized image for your system below -- note, however, that the recently released Kaby Lake platform does not support anything older than Windows 10 so yours is the very last hardware platform that will support Windows 7. Also note that you will lose some battery runtime if you install WIndows 7, as that OS does not support all the power management features of the Skylake platform.
If it's the Windows 10 interface you don't like, you can easily install a free copy of Classic Shell that will restore a Windows 7 interface to Windows 10 if you so desire.
If you're set on installing 7, see here:
www.dell.com/.../SLN301133
yassirlek
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November 26th, 2016 04:00
Thank you for the answer.
can you please help me here
I want to install windows 10 on my DELL latitude E5470 which has a samsung SSD mzhpu128hcgm-0000 as hard drive. but when i want to select this disk and install windows on it, i got this error message :
'Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu.'
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ejn63
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November 26th, 2016 04:00
If there is also a hard drive in the system along with the NVMe solid state drive you've indicated, you must disable the SATA hard drive before installing to the NVMe drive. Once WIndows is installed, you can then re-enable the hard drive.
www.dell.com/.../SLN301036