Once again, Thank You 1492. Your first post gave me a couple of bits of information that I needed. I looked up GPT, CMS and legacy boot, now I understand from several posts what needs to be done and I will go over to BB this AM and tell them what I need and what that I want the free WIN8.1 upgrade installed.
When I get the laptop back I will go to my DGS and the rest of the family and explain how the new upgrade works and it is a take it or leave it situation. If they decide they want WIN7, I will take the laptop for my own use only and buy a laptop that satisfies their needs.
I can't see spending the time and effort to change everything around if the BIOS is locked for WIN8 and changing it into using GPT for WIN7. I am hoping changing out the BO HDD and the upgrade will make it work better.
I am somewhat disappointed to learn that within the next 45 days, WIN9 will hit the market. I feel like I am like the dog that chases his tail, you never catch up to the changes. I have learned that no matter what we do or say, Microsoft will make the WIN OS totally compatible with the Apple OS which will including all computers using touch screens. I have not worked in the tech field for about 20 years and so much has changed so fast but it is all still the same. We were writing our own programs and bios for traffic signal controllers as I retired and prom's and e-prom's were just coming into wide spread use. It seems they are still in use today, abet a little more sophisticated.
Once again than you.
