You will first need to go to the manufacturers website for your model computer and first find out if there are Windows 7 native drivers available. A lot of computers that come preloaded with Windows 8 do not have native driver support for Windows 7 by the manufacturer. If there are no native drivers, you will have to consider returning the machine and purchasing a machine preloaded with Windows 8 Pro with downgrade rights to Windows 7 Professional. Or look through the manufacturers catalogue for systems already preloaded with Windows 7, usually the business line will have these options.
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Return the laptop if it came preloaded with Windows 8 and purchase one already preloaded with Windows 7, they are still available:
By Dr Philip Yip (Dell Community Rockstar and Microsoft Windows Insider MVP). Download Windows 8.1 Retail and OEM.iso. The Windows 8.1 “Edition” with Update 1.iso accepts both Windows 8 “Edition” and Windows 8.1 “Edition”. The common way to clean install Windows 8.1 with a Windows 8 key shown on websites is to use Microsoft's upgrade site to download the install media by starting the Windows 8 download first, pausing it, then starting the Windows 8.1 download. My Windows 8 OEM key is rejected with the message This product key cannot be used to install a retail.
How to downgrade:
Backup before you reinstall Windows 7:
Consider dual booting (credit JW Stuart MVP):
Additional information:
Since you want to downgrade to Windows 7 to meet the business requirement, you may refer this article and check if it helps.
Consumer versions of Windows 8 Pro that come preinstalled on PCs have downgrade rights to a previous version of Windows (example: Windows 7, Windows Vista).
If your copy came pre-installed on your system, you may downgrade your copy to Windows 7.
If not you need purchase a copy of Windows 7 and install the same on your computer.
• Downgrade rights are only available for licenses obtained through OEM or Volume Licensing (VL) and not apply to Full version (FPP).
• OEM downgrade rights apply to Windows 8 Pro and allows for downgrades up to two prior version
• Software Assurance through VL (Volume licensing) provides the greatest flexibility, allowing for downgrades to all prior versions and editions besides Windows 7 Ultimate and Vista Ultimate editions.Without Software Assurance coverage, VL has downgrade rights to prior versions of Windows with the exception of Enterprise.
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• It is not possible for a Windows 8 copy with multi-language function to downgrade to Windows 7 Pro or Windows XP Pro as multi language function is exclusive to Windows 7 Enterprise edition and not available for Professional edition.
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