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HAYELP! HAYELP! Issues with UEFI Win7 install
I got a new PC for Christmas, Dell XPS8900 i7-6700 processor with 16GB of RAM 1TB HDD with Win10 installed.
I had it setup and ready to go, turned it on and kept getting BSOD's every 5 or 10 minutes... this is straight from the factory. I called Dell, they sent a tech, he switched out my HDD with a fresh copy of Win10. 2 days in, only 1 BSOD so far...
Obviously I am not comfortable having this as my primary OS, so I went out and bought a 2TB HDD with the intentions of dualbooting Win7 on my new machine. Installed the new HDD, booted into Win10 and initialized the new HDD GPT. I then booted into UEFI and disabled SecureBoot, created a bootable USB stick with OEM Win7 Home Premium disk image, stuck it in one of my USB 2.0 slots, rebooted, hit F12 for bootmenu, selected UEFI: SanDisk Cruzer Glide 1.26 (USB with bootable ISO on it) and get this...
If I try booting from the OEM Win7 Home Premium disk I get the "Press the any key button to boot from CD..." message and then automatically starts running diagnostics. Can someone please help me figure out how to dualboot an UEFI copy of Win7 to my brand new HDD on my brand new computer, this is driving me mad. Thanks