Trying to help my friend install a new OS.

dan7933

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So my friend is doing screenshare on skype... and I've helped them create a bootable Windows 7x64 flash drive. They said that one of their other friends installed Windows 8 32 Bit... but it has 6GB of RAM (only 3 GB are usable, but I don't know if upgrading to 64 would make more of it usable?)

My friend says that the laptop came with a 64 bit operating system... so I'm taking their word for it. Either way, we really don't care, they just want Windows 7 again.

As I said, I helped them create a bootable disk, but our main difficulty is in the bios.

The bios I see everyone else use (Version 2.15.1236 American Megatrends) has all this "Disable fastboot" and "Secure boot" but these are the only things on each tab we can see.

There are no other options to boot to the USB.

http://imgur.com/a/taFun
 


Nothing else shows up for the boot option. Also, I used Rufus to make it bootable.