Windows 7 via USB stick does not work as expected?

I bought a new laptop and because I still had a Windows 7 key left, I thought: Save your money and make yourself (so laptop without operating system bought)

Joa, does not work that way…

Have with a program a USB stick with a Win7 iso file made bootable and then plugged into the laptop.

Boot failed.

In the "Bios" I can then see the connected USB stick via Boot from File (it is something of "NTFS") but I can't do much because if I connect the stick to the computer I can start a setup with Win7 here?

Have searched on the Internet for similar problems and the talk of boot order change or something with uefi change or something with legacy support. Nothing of it in my bios. I have no haze what I can do except to ask for advice (habs with software and hardware not on it…)

Would be glad about help.

First of all, the file system on the stick may not be NTFS, but only FAT32 or exFAT, otherwise the BIOS can't read it.

Then it must be turned off in the bios UEFI (how to do that should be in the instructions of the laptop, otherwise there are plenty of tutorials on the Internet)

Once done, you can use the boot menu to select the stick and then Windows 7 should also be installed.

With a little bit of bad luck, new notebooks no longer support the Windows 7 installation (legacy is missing)

For what?
Nobody developed for a settled operating system.

Probably the hardware is no longer (officially) compatible with Win7.

Your key should also go for Windows 10. Just create a stick with the MediaCreation Tool.

https://www.microsoft.com/.../windows10

This is how it works:

Install this tool on the computer: https://www.balena.io/...io/etcher/ This allows you to flash ISO files on USB sticks and makes the stick bootable.
Download the Windows 7 ISO on the Microsoft side.
Insert a blank formatted USB stick and start the installed tool.
Then click on Select Image and then select the Windows 7 ISO.
If the stick does not appear in the tool yet, click Select Drive and select the stick.
Finally click on Flash. A bar indicates the progress.
When finished, the stick can be booted.

P.S. From 2020, the support of Windows 7 will be completely discontinued. Then I can recommend to install a Linux distribution. For example, Linux Mint. Here the download: https://linuxmint.com/...xmint.com/ If the computer is not so powerful, I recommend the Xfce edition. Otherwise one can take the MATE or with a processor at least the i-Reihe the Cinnamon edition. This is also available as ISO and can be flashed with the above tool on a stick and then you have a Linux Mint Bootstick with which you can install.

Seems like that. It was easy with Windows 10. Is there an "unofficial" way to get Windows 7 on it? ^^

With normal desktop PCs, there are tools from the manufacturers, whether it is with notebooks too, unfortunately, I do not know.