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By having secure boot disabled it starts to load the windows 7 installation dvd but gets stuck at starting windows. I have contacted sony but I doubt I will get any help from them. Thanks for all your help!

All of these updates are .exe. how can I apply them to my system? At windows installation I should choose look for drivera or whatever it is called and use the exe from there?

Well after telling it to to boot from the optical drive the computer says that it can't boot because of secure boot. So i guess my oem dvd of windows 7 is not compatible. And i need a dvd or usb that supports uefi boot. I have to spend over 100 euros on windows 8. To see if it works some day...

Windows 7 dvd is probably not uefi compatible, because when I try to boot from it, the laptop says that no operating system detected. However Ubuntu on usb which supports uefi can boot. But being able to boot my windows installation in uefi mode should let me install the system?

I can't start the windows 7 dvd with uefi enabled. Legacy works but it won't install. I created an "upgrade" usb for windows 8 but it had problems with the key I gave since it was for my other laptop. I suppose i have to get an oem or retail windows 8 or 8.1, boot into uefi and hope it lets me...

Thanks for the reply. How do I change AHCI and IDE? I know how to access the BIOS but the sony BIOS is extremely restricted. There is no way of getting into some advanced mode or anything like that. I can toggle boot order, virtualization, legacy/uefi and change the date and time.

Hello! I have a Sony VAIO sve14a3v2es which came with window 8 pre-installed. I had a bad day with windows so I decided to install linux mint. Stupid as I am I erased the entire disk, deleting the recovery partition. I was happy with linux and still am but I have software that requires windows...