Hmmm i'm tempted Director 12 but I'm not tech savvy enough to be confident that I can install Widnows 7 without it going pear shaped half way :-)
"Basically you need to switch off uefi in the bios, delete all the partitions from the hard drive (or just use a new hard drive),reformat the hard drive then you should be good to go."
I'm still pretty lost with how to actually do the above - and i'll probably just end up getting a death freeze on the laptop lol