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I recently got an ASUS K55A series laptop with Windows 8 on it, and have been trying to load Windows 7 on it for days to no avail, and recently I discovered how to get my Windows 7 install DVD to boot from the BIOS, but I deleted all of my Windows 8 system information from both partitions of my HDD and Windows 7 setup says it cannot install on the disc because of a partition format issue. I did not delete the recovery HDD partition for Windows 8, but I can't get the HDD to show up in my boot menu in BIOS, and none of the F keys work to get to recovery mode (only DEL and F2 work to get me into BIOS)

Hennes
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According to the manual, that notebook supports UEFI boot, which replaces the BIOS for booting.

In addition to that, if you do have UEFI enabled and you're trying to use a 32-bit Windows 7 install source it won't work, as UEFI booting is only supported in Win7 64-bit.

For that notebook UEFI booting is optional. So if it's enabled, disable it and try installing Windows again.

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