Hello,
I have a HP Stream laptop and I really want to use Windows 7 (in any shape/form/variant).
MY FIRST APPROACH (INSTALLING FROM A USB/DVD). FAILED
The motherboard is x64 compatible and the internal hdd is 32GB eMMc (a kind of SD flash drive).
Now this seems to be at the root of the problem; Win7 won't detect the internal emmc hdd or any other disk drive for that matter ("No fixed disks to show"), even when I insert another usb drive.
I have tried installing Win7 from a live usb, dvd, and tried all available settings on BIOS, all editions of ISOs, USB 2.0 ports and the standard troubleshooting steps that I could find on google.
I even ripped the hdd drivers from my current Win8.1 and integrated them into the Win7 image. It froze on the 4-dots screen.
MY SECOND APPROACH (INSTALLING ONTO A USB DRIVE). STILL IN PROGRESS
Lately I realized I could try to skip the internal hdd and just install Win7 on an external usb drive and marry it together with the laptop.
I've tried to use the tool called WinToUsb but with no success so far (BSOD or infinite reboot), however I haven't exhausted all possible partition schemes and settings yet. I will update this post when I have.
If that tool fails then I can still try to do it manually.
If anyone has any suggestions or recommendations of some kind of custom Windows 7 I could use, I will be forever in your debt.
