I recently got an Acer E5-575G laptop with Windows 10 installed.
I want to install Windows 7 on this laptop but when I tried there was an issue with drive partitions not being in the correct order but the install continued anyway, but then during one of the required reboots during installation I received error 0xc000000f - "The application or operating system couldn't be loaded because a required file is missing or contains errors." I don't see how this possible considering I downloaded my copy of Windows 7 straight from Microsoft's website.
Yes, your laptop is OEM. If there was any proprietary software needed for the OS to recognize the hard drives then you need to acquire that from the OEM so you can install Windows.
I read some reviews of the device and it looks like you would be good to go. I may just be paranoid these days when it comes to OEM laptops but it never hurts to check. You should be good to go with this laptop. Happy hunting.
could be the harddrive is partitioned GPT, i think MS started doing that in windows 8, and it can cause all kinds of wierd problems, if your os doesn't properly support it. I had problems imaging a harddrive of my laptop back in the days, and and it ran immaculately right up until i hit the 4th or 5th partition, then it threw me an error. If you want to install windows 7 on it, You're properly going to have to repartition the harddrive from scratch in MBR.
If the hard drive was formatted with an MBR partition scheme this would make sense, as you can only have 4 partitions with MBR on the same logical drive. GPT can support hundreds.
Windows 7 can be installed on hard drives with either MBR or GPT.
Hundred, not hundreds, GPT supports 128 partitions.
If you got a 64 bit version of 7, 8 ,8.1 or 10, 32 bit versions of said OSes does not support GPT properly on systems without a UEFI at least according to MS own specs.
I'm not dumb and know why it stopped working after the 4th partition, i was just tossing my 2 cents into the pond for a possible solution, albeit i had been at a funeral all day yesterday so didn't really have the energy to do much research about the problem at hand. I looked up the specific problem today and it requires him to do a system repair from the installation media.