How about a show on how to downgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 7? It 's not as easy as you think

[G+_Dan Phillips]

How about a show on how to downgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 7? It's not as easy as you think. 

 

A friend of mine just bought a new Samsung laptop that came with Windows 8 pre-installed and he had no use for it. While preparing to wipe the drive and install a copy of Windows 7, we noticed that the hard drive had 6 partitions. I assumed this was due to all of the system restore options that 8 offers. 

So that left us with no choice but to blow them all away which would void the warranty on the new laptop. 

 

Has anyone else run into issues?

[G+_Mathew Hoffman]

Saw something similar on new Compaq laptop purchased for my son. So I setup Win8 and then took the newly configured drive out and replaced it with a new unused hard drive. Loaded Win 7 ultimate and everyone's happy!

[G+_John Mink]

Dan Phillips you should be able to get a CD image from tech support, or you could copy the partition onto a backup drive.  Or ideally an image of the restoration partitions.  Just bug tech support!