Lenovo C260 O/S

[bapak]

Have a Lenovo C260 that has FreeDOS pre installed.

Want to install WIN7 but cannot get past FreeDOS.

[thedemon]

You need to be a bit more specific about the problem.

What are you trying to do that isn't working? Boot from installation media?

[RichCor]

Hopefully you are using Genuine Windows 7 installation media.

The Lenovo C260 touch screen computer must be able to BOOT the installation media in order the the installer to over-write your internal memory device.

1. When the computer starts to boot, press the F12 key. On Lenovo laptops you may need to click on the ThinkVantage button instead.
2. At the Boot Menu, navigate using the arrow keys to the first option of the list: ATAPI CD (it can be ATAPI CD0). At this step you need to select the optical drive where you inserted the first disc. If your installation media is on a USB memory device then see if there is a USB boot option.
3. Hit Enter

[Chicog]

But if you boot from a Win 7 disk (or USB), do you not have access to repartition the drives and do a full install?

Edited October 14, 2014 by Chicog

[thedemon]

Something else to be aware of is that If it is a recent model notebook it quite likely has UEFI boot enabled by default and if you are using older installation media or a USB drive made bootable with Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool, it won't be recognised and so will proceed to the HDD without any error message.

To solve that you either need to create installation media (formatted FAT32) in a slightly complicated process or else use a tool like this: http://rufus.akeo.ie/

Or if you don't care about UEFI/Secure Boot, do the following.

In the BIOS boot settings, change from UEFI to CSM (or UEFI/CSM) and turn off Secure Boot.

Then follow the steps outlined above by RichCor.