Dell Latitude 10 St2 Install Windows 7
09.09.2019
Disclaimer: Boring Video of how to get into the boot select screen when booting up your windows 8 dell latitude 10 essential tablet.You don't have to watch this video. After you press the power button, all you need to do is press the volume up button and hold it until the boot select menu appears.Yes. At least it's not like on a desktop where you have to press some obscure key like f2 or f10 or esc.Anyways. This is useful if you have to factory reset your tablet from a usb flash drive or an external media device. If you need to change boot order, this is one way to do it temporarily.
I am deploying (4) Dell E7470's and downgrading them to Windows 7 to match the company standard. I am having luck with some and failing with others. The difference seems to be a standard SSD vs an NVMe SSD. The laptops with NVMe SSD's are freezing at the 'Starting Windows' screen when I go to install Windows 7.I'm installing Windows 7 in UEFI mode from a bootable USB created with Rufus, that I have injected the USB 3.0 drivers with using Intel's USB 3.0 Creator Utility. I have disabled SecureBoot in the BIOS.This works and the install completes with the E7470's that have a standard SSD, however with NVMe drive (Samsung PM951) it is freezing at 'Starting Windows'.I've read about in injecting the Samsung SSD drivers but I do not even get that far. I've tried disabling SATA operation, changing it to AHCI and then RAID, with no luck.Any ideas?
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Or maybe it's nothing to do with the SSD?EDIT: I should also mention that this came with Windows 10. Windows 10 loads and works fine. I've also ran the Dell hardware testing and everything checks out.Edited Jul 12, 2016 at 14:35 UTC. Hi NetworkNate,There's a handy Dell knowledge base article on this issue where it describes the requirements needed to install Windows 7If you don't want to click the link the requirements are:'RAID On' enabled in BIOS.' UEFI Boot with Legacy Option ROM enabled' in BIOS.Windows PE 10.0.10586Intel Rapid Storage 14.5.xMDT 2013 Update 1 / SCCM 2012 R2 CU3 running on Server 2012 R2.If that doesn't work then as Will3rd said you might get it to install using MS KB 2990941, (i'd also have the MS handy as you might get a BSOD after installing that KB).
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Will3rd wrote:Windows 7 cannot natively install to NVMe drives, you will need to slipstream the following KB to get it to work:Will is pretty close. We had to add 2 hot fixes to our Windows 7 build to get them to boot correctly on the NVME drives after deployment. Make sure you grab both the x64 and x86 versions of the hotfixes if you think you need both arch. We had issues requesting the files a second time because we missed one of the arch when we downloaded.Here is the first article that describes the two hot fixes 2990941, 3087873 (we inject the hot fixes with dism as we deploy the image):Here is the F6 driver if you need it (disclosure we have not used this since we don't load windows from media):Here is general information about the NVME drives and windows.
I am getting an old laptop for my cousin to use for shopping online and excel spreadsheet. Which is pretty much what she will only use it for. It has no OS but was wondering if it is better to install windows 10 or windows 7, from a performance perspective? Nw problem -I have a lot of Dell Latitude 10 ST2 tablets As in my previous post, these were donated to the thrift store from our church school. Guess they upgraded all their tablets for the kids.