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I've been trying to install Windows 7 on a Lenovo ThinkPad E480 that I bought 3 weeks ago. So far it's still a brick, so I decided to reinstall ATIH 2014 after version 2011 wouldn't work and wouldn't accept the product key, so I deleted it. I figured I'd try cloning a Dell Inspiron running windows 7 and see if the ThinkPad will accept it and boot into windows but I'm still running into the MBR is not on the same partition as the OS problem and the ThinkPad is still telling me that it's missing the correct drivers, which is driving me crazy.... I have cloned a HDD & a SSD with my Dells but for some reason I can't even install windows 7 on this Lenovo. It's like Microsoft doesn't want you to continue using windows 7. Do I need a newer version of Acronis to work with cloning the hard drives? I believe I read somewhere that Acronis TIH 2018 or later will allow for a perfect disc clone. Now as of yesterday this Lenovo ThinkPad is stuck in a loop that isn't even allowing me to boot into the BIOS. So it might need to be shipped back to Lenovo. I just don't want anything to do with windows 10/10 Pro. I like windows 7 Pro.... Any help would be great.

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Daniel, welcome to these public User Forums.

Did your Lenovo ThinkPad E480 come preinstalled with Windows 10 and was this working when you received it?

Did you make a backup of the laptop before attempting to install Windows 7 on it?

If this is a more recent laptop then it simply may not support using Windows 7, especially if it comes with a PCIe NVMe M.2 type drive installed which requires Windows 10.

The simplest approach would be to have Windows 10 installed but use Open Shell to make it look like Windows 7, which is what I have done with all my own Windows 10 computers.