What does windows 10 do to boot?

[ZedeN]

I have an old Clevo 860CU laptop that I upgraded to windows 10. This laptop was old and kept crashing as I think it was overheating (the fans were in bad condition and one would occasionally sound like a fighter jet turbine as it came out of allignment).

Anyway after I upgrade to Win10 from Win7 after couple of reboots the PC stopped booting into windows. It would get to the first Win10 logo and after few seconds power off. I tried reinstalling windows 10, Linux mint, Linux debian and windows 7 but every time the message came up to press any key to boot from USB/CD, instead of booting from the aforementioned devices, the same Windows 10 logo would pop up!

So I thought maybe my bios is destroyed, restored default settings, removed hard-drive from boot options but then PC would still not boot from any external media source. I took out my laptop hard drive, formatted it externally from my desktop and tried booting windows 7 install USB. Somehow, upon clicking boot from USB from boot options, the same windows 10 logo would come up!

I was very confused, took out the hard drive again and this time installed fully windows 7 on it. Checked on my desktop that this windows 7 boots up, checked that the partions were all formated and there were no hidden ones. Placed the hard drive into the laptop, and somehow, even thought the hard drive has been fully formatted and a tested, bootable windows 7 installed; the windows 10 logo comes up!?

So my question is how? What does windows 10 do to boot?

 

[manv]

You will have to install the windows 7 onto the HDD from your laptop itself not from your desktop and then trying to boot into it using your laptop. Some new versions of windows 7 installers do have a windows 10/8.1/8 logo popping up during the installation process but this is not to be mistaken as your windows 10 etc. Also while installing windows on your laptop try to use the legacy mode and not efi mode. Sometimes that helps too.

 

[HEXiT]

its likely you only formatted the c: drive. leaving system reserved partition untouched from the previous win 10 install.

what you need to do is delete all existing partition so the drive is raw.
when you boot of your win 7 install media. delete any existing partitions labelled system reserved and c:
now create a new volume c:

this will create a new system reserved partition of 100mb and a new c: partition

if you want you can now delete c: again. and extend system reserved to 450MB (WARNING!) it will need to be this big if you want to migrate to win 10 later, so set it now. once done, create a new c: partition from the remaining space.

install windows 7 as normal to the c: drive.

window should then boot normally.

 

[ZedeN]

You will have to install the windows 7 onto the HDD from your laptop itself not from your desktop and then trying to boot into it using your laptop. Some new versions of windows 7 installers do have a windows 10/8.1/8 logo popping up during the installation process but this is not to be mistaken as your windows 10 etc. Also while installing windows on your laptop try to use the legacy mode and not efi mode. Sometimes that helps too.

The issue is I can't boot the installers from the laptop since the deleted win10 still somehow manages to hi-jack my boot. The CDs+USBs were tested on my desktop, no Win10 logos, standard, normal win7 logo. Also wouldn't explain the logo when I tried to boot Linux Mint and Debian.

its likely you only formatted the c: drive. leaving system reserved partition untouched from the previous win 10 install.

Nope I deleted and formatted all the portions that were on that drive, I mean I even checked them with gparted and they were definitely gone.