Hi,
my apologies, posted this yesterday on wrong Forum ("all other software") getting old.
just bought a new hp laptop with Win 8 installed. HP G6-2208AV, Made backup discs.
Laptop will not boot any live discs e.g. Gparted, Ubuntu 12.04 . Drive plays dvd's etc. so appears to be working, just spins up then nothing. Drive and contents of discs that won't boot, show in "Computer"
I have set both uefi and Legacy to boot Optical drive first, and have disabled Secure boot in bios.
I have a number of usb devices that will not work, and cannot be made to
work,no drivers available for Win 8 ( usb tv tuner is one) so intend to buy a stand alone copy of Win 7 32 bit, and install that, and dual boot Ubuntu, which worked fine dual boot on Win 7.
My plan is to get rid of win 8, which has been nothing but a pain, 3rd party sofware working one minute then "Not Responding" the next, and installing Win 7 , where all my usb devices could be made to work.
How can I format the drive and Totally remove all traces of win8. I only have the recovery disks,
don't really care if I don't see Win 8 again. Left 2 messages for help on Microsoft site, they didn't have the good manners to reply to either.
Thanks in advance
hamley
my apologies, posted this yesterday on wrong Forum ("all other software") getting old.
just bought a new hp laptop with Win 8 installed. HP G6-2208AV, Made backup discs.
Laptop will not boot any live discs e.g. Gparted, Ubuntu 12.04 . Drive plays dvd's etc. so appears to be working, just spins up then nothing. Drive and contents of discs that won't boot, show in "Computer"
I have set both uefi and Legacy to boot Optical drive first, and have disabled Secure boot in bios.
I have a number of usb devices that will not work, and cannot be made to
work,no drivers available for Win 8 ( usb tv tuner is one) so intend to buy a stand alone copy of Win 7 32 bit, and install that, and dual boot Ubuntu, which worked fine dual boot on Win 7.
My plan is to get rid of win 8, which has been nothing but a pain, 3rd party sofware working one minute then "Not Responding" the next, and installing Win 7 , where all my usb devices could be made to work.
How can I format the drive and Totally remove all traces of win8. I only have the recovery disks,
don't really care if I don't see Win 8 again. Left 2 messages for help on Microsoft site, they didn't have the good manners to reply to either.
Thanks in advance
hamley