Downgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 7 ??

[TiernO]

I currently have a laptop running Windows 10, it came with Windows 8 but I was able to upgrade for free. Since I am a college student, I have a legit copy of Windows 7 for free on this Dreamspark website or whatever. My question is simply how can I downgrade to windows 7 if at all possible ?

 

[ThatVietGuy]

Yes, just because you have Windows 10 doesn't prevent you from wiping the drive clean and installing Windows 7.

 

[Rogue Leader]

You can't downgrade, but as mentioned, you can format the drive and Install 7.

Don't know why you would want to 10 is better in every way.

 

[TiernO]

Yes, just because you have Windows 10 doesn't prevent you from wiping the drive clean and installing Windows 7.

How would I do it ?

Ive heard from people that when they went from windows 8 to 7 in gave an error on installation and never worked

 

[USAFRet]

Yes, just because you have Windows 10 doesn't prevent you from wiping the drive clean and installing Windows 7.

How would I do it ?

Ive heard from people that when they went from windows 8 to 7 in gave an error on installation and never worked

All depends on how they screwed it up.

Put the DVD in, boot from it
Wipe the drive (all partitions) and install the OS.

As asked above....why?

 

[ThatVietGuy]

Yes, just because you have Windows 10 doesn't prevent you from wiping the drive clean and installing Windows 7.

How would I do it ?

Ive heard from people that when they went from windows 8 to 7 in gave an error on installation and never worked

You have to boot from some kind of bootable media (USB, DVD) and go from there.

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/a/install-windows-7-usb.htm

 

[littleleo]

You have 30days from the time you upgraded to Windows 10 to be able to roll it back if it is past that time your out of luck.

 

[TiernO]

Yes, just because you have Windows 10 doesn't prevent you from wiping the drive clean and installing Windows 7.

How would I do it ?

Ive heard from people that when they went from windows 8 to 7 in gave an error on installation and never worked

All depends on how they screwed it up.

Put the DVD in, boot from it
Wipe the drive (all partitions) and install the OS.

As asked above....why?

Easy enough, thanks!

 

[USAFRet]

Easy enough, thanks!

"Easy enough" depends on your personal comfort zone doing this.
Have you ever installed an OS before?

 

[TiernO]

Easy enough, thanks!

"Easy enough" depends on your personal comfort zone doing this.
Have you ever installed an OS before?

Yeah I have Windows 7 on my Gaming PC and a few times I've wiped the hard drive and re installed W7 from a bootable USB. I just never did it from a higher version of windows