Windows 10: Dual boot Win 9 preview and Win 8

A little early but this is what I am looking at.






I plan to just remove Win 7 (C) and install Win 9 Preview in its place as (C)
At present Win 8 is on a Logical drive (W) but have thought about deleting Win 7 and converting Win 8 (W) to a primary partition and then moving it to the front then install Win 9 after it. Any thoughts as to which will be the best way to go.

Jim

:)

 

Dual boot installation?

I currently dual boot Win 7 and Win 8 on my Dell PC. I want to do the clean install of Win 10 on the Win 8 partition. My question is will it affect the Win 7 partition and will I be able to dual boot win 7 and Win 10?

Thanks,

Brian

 

Will my reserved Win 10 upgrade be an iso?

On my desktop with Win 7 professional I had enrolled in the Win 10 preview (now upgraded to full Win 10 thank you) which was a .iso which I installed alongside Win 7. It's a dual boot. Works fine.

On this Win 7 home notebook I reserved a copy of Win 10. Can it be a .iso that I can install alongside Win 7 dual boot as well? There are original manufacturers programs installed on the notebook which of course Microsoft does not guarantee will work with
Win 10.

Thank you.

 

None of the above, never stick some untried OS on the same disk or dual boot with your main one. I have seen to many doing that with Win7 and Win 8 Beta or even RC that at some point didn't have to redo everything. Separate disk, choosing OS thru BIOS fast menu or a Virtual disk are only ways to go.

 

Thanks for your reply.
I ALWAYS do an image with Macrium before any major changes so I am prepared for any problems. Don't have another disk to play with for now and by putting it on a hard disk instead of a Virtual disk I can test my hardware compatibility. There is a method behind my madness.

Jim :win:

 

Good thing about Desktop PC is that it's easy to ad HDDs, If I didn't have a spare HDD I would get a small one for a few bucks and try on it. Heck of easier than going thru image restoring every time something goes wrong (and it will for sure).

 

Avoiding problem is a better approach than expecting one... *Smile

 

I really can't wait so I just popped the new SSD in... *Smile

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Sadly I only have one hybrid drive, but I'll make it work. *Smile

 

I installed multiple hot-swappable hard drive trays on my PC for this purpose. *Smile
I stopped using virtual machines. It's doesn't give you the actual performance of an OS with respect to hardware.

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What machine are you using? Laptop or desktop?

 

Well, at the moment I'm on an iPad. :sorry:

But I will be putting together the computer I have listed in My System either on Thursday or Friday, probably Thursday.

 

If you haven't bought the hard drive yet, consider this one (dual 120GB SSD+ 1TB HDD):

http://www.ncix.com/detail/wd-black-...5-b8-92417.htm

 

Thank you, but I already ordered it and my budget wouldn't have allowed that anyway. *Sad

-Chuck

 

I am sure, the difference in price will be worth it as it is 2 drives in one plus the benefit of SSD speed. *Smile