How To Install Windows 7 On Hp Pavilion G6

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I don't know whether it happens on purpose or accidentally, but the installed Windows on laptops is often terribly slow (with unnecessary additions, programs). Plus, the disk is not very conveniently partitioned - there is only one partition with Windows OS (not counting another "small" one for a backup).

Actually, not so long ago I had to "understand" and reinstall Windows on an HP 15-ac686ur laptop (a very simple budget laptop without bells and whistles. By the way, it was on it that extremely "glitchy" Windows was installed - because of this I was asked to help I photographed some moments, and this is how this article was born :)) ...

Configuring the BIOS for an HP laptop to boot from a USB flash drive

Remark! Since this HP laptop does not have a CD / DVD drive, the Windows installation was performed from a USB flash drive (since this is the easiest and fastest option).

I do not consider the issue of creating a bootable USB drive in this article. If you do not have such a flash drive, I recommend that you read the following articles:

Creating a bootable USB flash drive Windows XP, 7, 8, 10 - (in the article I am considering installing Windows 10 from a USB flash drive, created based on this article :));
Creating a bootable UEFI flash drive -

Buttons for entering BIOS settings

Remark! I have an article on my blog with a lot of buttons to enter BIOS on various devices -

In this laptop (which I liked), there are several buttons for entering various settings (moreover, some of them duplicate each other). So, here they are (they will also be duplicated in photo 4):

F1 - system information about the laptop (not all laptops have this, but here it was built into such a budget one :));
F2 - laptop diagnostics, viewing information about devices (by the way, the tab supports Russian, see photo 1);
F9 - select the boot device (i.e. our flash drive, but more on that below);
F10 - BIOS settings (the most important button :));
Enter - continue loading;
ESC - see a menu with all these laptop boot options, select any of them (see photo 4).

Important! Those. if you don't remember the button to enter the BIOS (or something else ...), then on a similar model range of laptops - you can safely press the ESC button after turning on the laptop! Moreover, it is better to press several times until the menu appears.

Photo 1. F2 - HP laptop diagnostics.

Note! You can install Windows, for example, in UEFI mode (for this you need to properly burn the USB flash drive and configure the BIOS. More details about this here :). In my example below, I will consider the "universal" method (since it is also suitable for installing Windows 7).

So, to enter BIOS on HP laptop ( approx. HP15-ac686 Notebook PC) you need to press the F10 button several times - after you have turned on the device. Next, in the BIOS settings, you need to open the System Configuration section and go to the Boot Options tab (see photo 2).

Photo 2. F10 button - Bios Boot Options

Make sure USB Boot is enabled (must be in Enabled mode);
Legacy Support enable (must be in Enabled mode);
In the Legacy Boot Order list, move the lines from USB to the first places (using the F5, F6 buttons).

Photo 3. Boot Option - Legacy Enabled

Actually, now you can start installing Windows. To do this, insert the previously prepared bootable USB flash drive into the USB port and reboot (turn on) the laptop.

Photo 4. Boot Device Option (choice of boot option for HP laptop)

A window should appear in which you can select a boot device. Because We install Windows from a USB flash drive - then you need to select the line with "USB Hard Drive ..." (see photo 5). If everything is done correctly, then after a while you should see the Windows OS installation welcome window (as in photo 6).

Photo 5. Selecting a flash drive to start installing Windows (Boot Manager).

On this BIOS setup to install the OS is complete ...

Reinstall Windows 10

In its example below, Windows reinstallation will be carried out on the same disk (albeit on a completely formatted and split somewhat differently).

If you configured the BIOS correctly and burned the USB flash drive, then after selecting the boot device (F9 button (photo 5))- you should see a welcome window and a suggestion to install Windows (as in photo 6).

We agree with the installation - press the "Install" button.

Photo 6. Welcome window for installing Windows 10.

Further, having reached the installation type, you must select " Custom: for Windows installations only (advanced users)". In this case, you can format the disk as needed, and completely delete all old files and OS.

Photo 7. Custom: Windows installation only (for advanced users)

The next window will open a (sort of) disk manager. If the laptop is new (and no one has "commanded" it yet), then most likely you will have several partitions (among which there are backup ones for backups that will be needed to restore the OS).

My personal opinion is that in most cases these partitions are not needed (and even the OS that comes with a laptop is not the best one, I would say "stripped down"). It is not always possible to restore Windows OS with their help, it is impossible to remove some types of viruses, etc. And a backup on the same disk as your documents is not the best option either.

In my case, I just selected and deleted them (every last one. How to delete - see photo 8).

Important! In some cases, removing the software that comes with the device is a reason for refusing warranty service. Although, usually, the software is never covered by the warranty, and yet, if in doubt, clarify this point (before removing everything and everything) ...

Photo 8. Removing old partitions on the disk (which were on it when purchasing the device).

Photo 9. Everything was deleted - there was only one unallocated disk.

Then all that remains is to select this section (97.2GB), click the "Next" button and install Windows into it.

Remark! By the way, there is no need to format the rest of the hard disk space yet. After Windows is installed, go to "disk management" (through the panel Windows management for example) and format the remaining disk space. Usually, they just make one more section (with all the free space) for media files.

Photo 10. Created one ~ 100GB partition for installing Windows into it.

Photo 11. Installation process (you just need to wait :)).

HP notebook PCs usually come with Windows 8 preinstalled, which many users prefer to change to the more familiar Windows 7 and seek help from service centers... We want to help you a little and tell you how to reinstall Windows on your HP laptop yourself.

Theory is indispensable: BIOS and UEFI, MBR and GPT

To reinstall operating system you usually start by going to BIOS. But in the case of an HP laptop, we will not have to deal with the traditional BIOS, but with the UEFI BIOS - a new, more modern interface between the system and the hardware.

Among the many new features of the "Extensible Firmware Interface", this is how the abbreviation "Unified Extensible Firmware Interface" is translated, we want to note only one - the ability to work with disk space in 9,000,000,000 TB. This is achieved through the use of GPT - a partition table that replaced the usual MBR. For comparison: MBR provides access to disk space of no more than 2 TB.

Disable Secure Boot

One of the pitfalls of Windows 8 is the Secure Boot mode, which does not allow you to boot operating systems other than it.

Our goal is to provide the ability to boot the seventh Windows on an HP laptop.

As soon as the laptop starts to boot, press the Esc key and go to the boot menu.
Using the F10 key, go to the Bios Setup section.
Select Boot Options from the System Configuration tab.
Disable Windows Safe Boot Mode:
Secure Boot = Disabled.
We include support for compatibility with other operating systems:
Legacy support = Enabled.
To save the settings, press the F10 key and confirm in the dialog box the impossibility of loading the current operating system
"... the system unable to boot the OS ...".
We re-confirm the change in the boot method by entering the proposed numbers using the main keyboard after a warning
"... Secure Boot mode is pending ...".

Choosing a boot device

When restarting the laptop, press the Esc key and go to the boot menu.
Go to the Boot Device Options section using the F9 key and select the boot device (USB flash drive, laser disk drive).

Now our HP laptop is ready to install a new Windows.

If GPT doesn't work

After you have reinstalled the licensed Windows 7, you will only have to deal with the drivers. But what if you do not have the ability to quickly activate the operating system? The boot partition created by GPT will be locked as soon as the expiration date Windows activation 7, the system will become inoperative and you will have to reinstall it again. You can solve this problem by converting the GPT disk to MBR.

Conversion to MBR with data deletion

Converting a GPT disk to MBR is performed using the DiskPart utility from the Windows 7 distribution and entails complete removal data on disk. This option is suitable for users who decide to reinstall the operating system immediately after purchasing an HP laptop. Everyone else should make sure to make a backup copy of the disk before performing the conversion.

We boot from the Windows 7 installation disk and reach the stage of selecting the OS installation partition.
In the command line mode, run the DiskPart utility using the key combination + F10:
diskpart
We get a list of hard drives installed on the computer and find the required one:
list disk
To select a disk, use the select disk N command, where N is the serial number of the disk. Disks are numbered starting at zero. Our laptop has only one hard drive, so the drive selection command looks like this:
select dick 0
We delete data:
clean
Convert the disk:
convert mbr
We finish working with the command line:
exit
We continue installing Windows.

Conversion to MBR without data loss

Converting a GPT disk to MBR without data loss is performed using the Paragon Manager utility, which can be found on multiboot disks (Live CD). We will be using a Lex Live CD (compiled from Lexa 2011).

We boot from the Live CD.
Launch Paragon Manager and select our hard drive, which the paragon recognized as Basic GPT.
We start the conversion process by choosing an option Convert to basic MBR disk(command Hard disk top menu).

Found instructions on the internet "Installing on a laptop HP Pavilion g6-2364sr Windows 7" :

1. V BIOS on "F10".

2. Easy installation in "UEFI Boot Order" downloads from "CD / DVD ROM Drive" will give nothing (subsection [I] "Legacy
Boot Order " not active). The download is only with OS boot manager ... Let's take a close look at BIOS -e on a new
menu item "Secure Boot" which is included in this case. V BIOS -e HP Pavilion g6-2364sr foreseen
the ability to disable this insidious service. Disable Secure Boot "Disabled"

4. After we turn on Legacy Support

5. V Legacy Support we set the load as we need it and boot from external media.

So after booting from the distribution disk "Windows 7 SP1 64-bit" we have:

Then I used heavy artillery - utility diskpart:

Run the installation disc with "Windows 7" When the screen with the suggestion appears "Install"
below you choose a pukt "Recovery" ...
Do not choose to fix problems automatically as the second option is needed.
A window will open with all sorts of tools, among them you choose command line.

1. In the appeared black command line window, type diskpart and press ENTER .
Attention! After that, the line in front of the blinking cursor will start with DISKPART>

2.select disk # and press ENTER .
# is the number of the disk you want to reformat.
The number can be viewed using the command list disk.
(the same command will show which disk is protected GPT there will be a ***** sign opposite it)
For example, I wrote select disk 2
There was a line
Disc 2 selected

3.clean and press ENTER ... (ATTENTION! If there is the necessary data on the disk, then it will not be possible to get it later!)
There was a line
DiskPart: Disk cleanup completed successfully.

4.create partition primary and press ENTER .
There was a line
DiskPart: The specified partition was created successfully.

Everything from diskpart-and the command line you can exit: exit, ENTER, exit, ENTER.
Now you can reinstall the system.

The following appeared:

How to be bro?

P.S. A little about the laptop itself:

With the advent of UEFI and the imposition of Windows 8 on everyone, by pre-installing it on most new laptops, installing Windows 7 on a laptop has acquired some nuances. Fortunately, for many laptops you can still find drivers for the seven. So today a patient HP Pavilion g6-1200er was delivered to change the operating system from Windows 8 to Windows 7.

So, installing Windows 7 on an HP Pavilion g6 laptop consists of the following steps:

First of all, we go to Bios, for this, when turning on, press the key ESC

Then the menu appears

In this menu, we see that in order to enter BIOS need to press F10.

We press F10 Bios setup

Go to System Configuration

Further USB3.0 Configuration Pre-OS put in Auto, otherwise we will get an error during installation

The required driver for the floppy drive was not found optical discs

During installation, an error appears stating that "The required driver for the optical disc drive was not found. If you have a floppy disk, CD, DVD, or USB flash drive with this driver, please insert that media. Note: If the Windows installation media is inserted in the CD / DVD drive, you can remove it during this step. "

It occurs due to the fact that we have installation media (in this case, the flash drive is inserted into USB 3.0), and Windows 7 does not support USB 3.0 out of the box... And we need to either insert the media into USB 2.0, or, as in this case, switch the operating mode to USB 2.0.

Like this

If you do not have the item " USB3.0 Configuration Pre-OS"Then feel free to move on.

We press Boot options

We include Legacy support v Enabled

Save and exit. To do this, press F10... After that, for some reason, he asked to press 4849 + Enter in order to confirm the save.

When you turn it on, press again ESC and we find ourselves in the already familiar and so beloved menu

We choose F9 Boot Device Options

Select our installation media and click Enter

Drivers for Windows 7 for this notebook model HP Pavilion g6-1200er, fortunately, are on the manufacturer's website, namely.

How to boot from a flash drive or disk HP Pavillion laptop? Hello admin! I suffered all day today with an HP Pavillion laptop, I want to install an operating room on it Windows system 7 instead of the now installed Windows 8. I connect the proven bootable USB flash drive Windows 7 to the USB 2.0 port, then I restart the laptop and often press the ESC key,

I get into the "start menu", now I press F-9 Boot Device Options (change boot settings),

I get into the boot menu, but my Kingston flash drive is not there, although it is already connected to the laptop (the USB flash drive is definitely bootable).

The same thing happens with the boot Windows disk 7.
So I think about the "miracle of hostile technology", then I'll do it differently, change the boot priority directly into the UEFI BIOS, restart the laptop, then press ESC again when booting, get into the "start menu", now I press F-10 BIOS Setup

And I go into BIOS UEFI and select the System Configuration option, and in it the Boot Options tab, I go into it.

As you can see, the secure boot option Secure Boot in BIOS is enabled,

I turn it off, put it in the "Disabled" position, and set the "Legacy support" option to the "Enabled" position, a warning comes out, I select Yes,

Then I press F-10 (save the settings, press Yes and reboot),

after the reboot, this window appears, with the message
A change to the operating system secure boot mode is pending. Please enter the pass code displayed below to complete the change. If you did not initiate this request, press the ESC key to continue without accepting the pending change

pressed both ESC and Enter, and other keys, everything is useless, the laptop reboots and loads the Windows 8 operating system. And if you enter the UEFI BIOS again, everything is unchanged, the Secure Boot option is Enabled support "disabled by Disabled, that is, as if I had not changed anything.

I ask you to explain to me a simple user why I cannot boot HP Pavillion laptop from USB stick why the UEFI BIOS settings do not change, what am I doing wrong. And most importantly, why only Windows 8 can be installed on a laptop with a UEFI BIOS, and no other operating system, you have to "crumple" like this and waste "nervous" cells. Tolyanych from Vitebsk.

How to boot from a flash drive or disk HP Pavillion laptop

Hello friends! Our reader does everything right up to the last screenshot. It was only necessary to correctly translate this message:

"To change Safe Boot Mode, please enter the code below to complete the change. If you did not submit this (change) request, then press ESC to exit without changing." I think you already understood that in this message we are asked to enter this code 8721 on the laptop keyboard (in your case, the code will naturally be different) and press Enter, after that your changes in the UEFI BIOS settings will be saved and the laptop will reboot,

and after rebooting, press ESC, get into the "start menu", press F-9 Boot Device Options (change boot settings),

We get to the boot menu and here our Kingston flash drive is already present, select it and press Enter, our laptop boots from the USB flash drive.