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Once Win7 dies on my laptop (or I want to upgrade to a new HDD/SSD), I want to install LL.  How would I get the touchpad to work?

Hi,

On a previous Laptop, Pavillion(HP) and Current HP-TS15 and my daughters Sony Vaio, the touch-pads just worked out-of-the-box.
Try a live boot and see how it works, nothing to loose.

GL

All I own are laptops, HP, Toshiba, and Lenovo and the touchpads have worked "out of the box"...

(08-31-2015, 11:47 AM)Wirezfree link Wrote: [ -> ]On a previous Laptop, Pavillion(HP) and Current HP-TS15 and my daughters Sony Vaio, the touch-pads just worked out-of-the-box.
Try a live boot and see how it works, nothing to loose.

I'm always worried that a live boot will somehow install LL and delete Win7.  I would have tried that long ago but I have some programs that just work better with Windows so I want to keep that for a while yet.

(08-31-2015, 03:01 PM)OldGuy link Wrote: [ -> ]All I own are laptops, HP, Toshiba, and Lenovo and the touchpads have worked "out of the box"...

Good to know that the touchpads seem to work out of the box.  My laptop is an HP.

Hi,

I have never encountered any issues with Live Boot doing anything to installed OS.

When I finally made a move to LL.
I made a clone/image of my WinXP that runs in Virtualbox, so I have it, just in case.
Here's what I did:  https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/on-to...0/#msg5660

Depending on how your Windows 7 disk(s) are set-up, this should work for non-efi/gpt set-ups.