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Dual boot W7 & W10?
If I add a second W7 drive on my PC, and then upgrade that drive to
W10, should my first W7 drive be affected? Both drives would have the same W7 Product Key to start with. I wud not want to lose my first drive. My intent wud be to dual boot the two drives. TX Peter --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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Dual boot W7 & W10?
wrote in message ... If I add a second W7 drive on my PC, and then upgrade that drive to W10, should my first W7 drive be affected? Both drives would have the same W7 Product Key to start with. I wud not want to lose my first drive. My intent wud be to dual boot the two drives. TX Peter http://www.askvg.com/tip-dual-boot-b...ndows-78-1-os/ |
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Live wrote on 8/23/2015 8:52 AM:
wrote in message ... If I add a second W7 drive on my PC, and then upgrade that drive to W10, should my first W7 drive be affected? Both drives would have the same W7 Product Key to start with. I wud not want to lose my first drive. My intent wud be to dual boot the two drives. TX Peter http://www.askvg.com/tip-dual-boot-b...ndows-78-1-os/ I've heard horror stories about the downgrade process. ... with that in mind... I'd make an image of win 7 with a reputable image program then upgrade to win10 and active. Then blow it away and put your old win 7 back. Then just clean install win 10 on the new drive. The good part I think about this is that windows 10 will then make a proper dual boot, as when it loads it will rewrite the boot and see windows 7 there and just make a dual boot. |
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On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 09:07:06 -0400, Big Al wrote:
Live wrote on 8/23/2015 8:52 AM: wrote in message ... If I add a second W7 drive on my PC, and then upgrade that drive to W10, should my first W7 drive be affected? Both drives would have the same W7 Product Key to start with. I wud not want to lose my first drive. My intent wud be to dual boot the two drives. TX Peter http://www.askvg.com/tip-dual-boot-b...ndows-78-1-os/ I've heard horror stories about the downgrade process. .. with that in mind... I'd make an image of win 7 with a reputable image program then upgrade to win10 and active. Then blow it away and put your old win 7 back. Then just clean install win 10 on the new drive. The good part I think about this is that windows 10 will then make a proper dual boot, as when it loads it will rewrite the boot and see windows 7 there and just make a dual boot. I am confused. If I make a backup image, then upgrade my W7 to W10 and activate it (which of course I can do), and then restore original W7 from the backup image back again, this destroying the installed/activated W10 - what did that accomplish? And what does all that do to help/work with an independent W10 install on a 2nd new drive? I guess I must be dense, Sorry. Thanks Peter --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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Dual boot W7 & W10?
Big Al wrote:
Live wrote on 8/23/2015 8:52 AM: wrote in message ... If I add a second W7 drive on my PC, and then upgrade that drive to W10, should my first W7 drive be affected? Both drives would have the same W7 Product Key to start with. I wud not want to lose my first drive. My intent wud be to dual boot the two drives. TX Peter http://www.askvg.com/tip-dual-boot-b...ndows-78-1-os/ I've heard horror stories about the downgrade process. .. with that in mind... I'd make an image of win 7 with a reputable image program then upgrade to win10 and active. Then blow it away and put your old win 7 back. Then just clean install win 10 on the new drive. The good part I think about this is that windows 10 will then make a proper dual boot, as when it loads it will rewrite the boot and see windows 7 there and just make a dual boot. I was thinking of doing just what you say here. The downgrade process in the askvg.com three steps seems fraught with dangers. Do you know anyone who's actually done this? I know it sounds ok; it handles the activating of Win10 with MS adequately, and I can't think of any inherent problem. But I'd feel better about it if I'd heard from a good friend that it had worked. Ed |
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On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 09:34:25 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote: On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 05:11:23 -0400, wrote: If I add a second W7 drive on my PC, and then upgrade that drive to W10, should my first W7 drive be affected? Both drives would have the same W7 Product Key to start with. I wud not want to lose my first drive. My intent wud be to dual boot the two drives. "Both drives would have the same W7 Product Key to start with." Nope, you can't do that. Yep, in my impatience, I found that out. I made a backup (thank God), then installed a dupe, but small copy of same W7 system on a second drive, then upgraded that drive to W10. Guess what, my original W7 drive was said to be 'not activated'. Of course, my backup saved me. So you are very correct. Thanks Peter --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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