Question Windows 7 Successfully Installed on UEFI PC Won't Boot

[waghela]

LENOVO IDEACENTRE 14ARE05

Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 4600G with Radeon Graphics 3.70 GHz

Installed RAM: 32,0 GB (31,3 GB usable)

Storage: 2TB SSD M.2 2242 PCIe NVMe + 2TB HDD 7200rpm 3.5"



OS Dual Boot in SSD M.2 2242 PCIe NVMe: Windows 11 (1500 GB) and Windows 7 (500GB)

I made a 500 GB partition on an SSD disk where it runs Windows 11 and installed Windows 7.

After installing Windows 7 the computer restarts and Windows 7 boots up, but it doesn't progress to the desktop restarting and repeating the restart until I stop.

Windows 11 continues to run smoothly.

You can see the steps through the screenshot of the attached TIF file.

 

[rgd1101]

personally, I would never download a pdf from someone on the internet

 

[waghela]

personally, I would never download a pdf from someone on the internet

Replaces pdf attachment with tif images.

 

[Math Geek]

your success here depends on how you updated your win 7 install disk and with what. it is not technically supposed to run on that hardware. it can be made to install and run fine, but the methods can be rather hit or miss in how or if they work.

so info on what you did to prepare your win 7 install media to work with your new hardware would be helpful. also would be helpful to know where you got your win 7 install media as well. not many people still have a win 7 disk sitting around.

 

[crypto_stan]

Try an MBR install instead. Your disks are 2 TB which is the max allowed under MBR.