8 pre installed - want to swap HD with 7 64 pro & keep intact

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    allowingtoo MDL Novice

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    #1 allowingtoo, Jun 5, 2015
    I have a laptop - Lenovo IdeaPad Windows 8 - UEFI and Legacy bios enabled. My old laptop - Lenovo IdeaPad - I had just installed a new hard drive - Windows 7 64 - and I have a program installed on it that I really need on the new laptop that is not Windows 8 compatible. I want to swap out the hard drives. Everything I read talks about new install of Windows 7 instead.

    Do I use the updown8 and downgrade? Will that allow me to still boot and run UEFI with Windows 7 64? I assume I will have to delete all the partitions first - right? It has the Lenovo 1 key recovery partition on it plus the OS but I'm not worried about keeping that.

    What is the best way to do this? TIA
     
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    allowingtoo MDL Novice

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    #2 allowingtoo, Jun 28, 2015 (OP)
    my icon and how anyone can do it. MDL and DAZ worked great! Micro$oft approved :clap:
     
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    #3 allowingtoo, Jun 28, 2015 (OP)