Windows 10: Win 7 and Win 10 Dual Boot

Discus and support Win 7 and Win 10 Dual Boot in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; After reading many posts & reply's, I now think/understand that I cannot Dual Boot win 7 and win 10 using free Win 10, if I want to do that I must buy... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by davew, Aug 3, 2015.

  1. davew Win User

    Win 7 and Win 10 Dual Boot


    After reading many posts & reply's, I now think/understand that I cannot Dual Boot win 7 and win 10 using free Win 10, if I want to do that I must buy Win 10. Reason is the MS will not allow free Win 10 if I am still using Win 7.

    1st I must update my win 7 with win 10 which overwrites win 7. Then I can do a clean install of win 10. However my Win 7 is toast. This sounds crazy, but am I correct?

    My computer is very important to my business and I must see for myself if win 10 will work correctly after I download apps like quick books to it and before I overwrite my win 7 which works great. This sounds like a very dangerous plan.

    I do have Win 10 running on a separate SSD from my win 7 on the same computer but it's not dual boot, I must restart from win 7 and boot from the drive which has win 10. Seems kind of dumb.



    :)
     
    davew, Aug 3, 2015
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  2. 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
     
    Sportsdadmi39, Aug 3, 2015
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  3. I have Dual Booting Windows 7 Ultimate & Windows 8.1 Pro, Is upgrading my windows 8.1 Pro to Windows 10 will erase Windows 7 ?

    I had win 7 and win 10 dual boot, running just fine for several months.

    THEN last nite somehow win 7 decided to updgrade to win 10 , even though win 7 was running.

    Result was win 7 upgraded to win 10. Now dual boot has win 10 on one partition and win 10 upgrade on other portion. The upgraded win 7 (win 10) is all fouled and does not function. The original dual boot win 10 works ok.

    The Microsoft upgrade somehow assassinated my smoothly running system, and I am jumping thru hoops trying to get my win 7/10 dual boot restored from a March 2016 disk image (that I thoughtfully had created while everything was working smoothly). This restore
    is currently in progress, and I pray will be successful .. Will find out in a few hours. BUT .. I might jump off a bridge if win 10 again updates somehow to again assassinate my system. It is inexplicable to me that win 10 installs over win 7 when I have
    not agreed/selected/opted to upgrade to win 10 while running the dual booted win 7. I don't know how it happened, and I don't know how to prevent it from recurring. Any suggestions?
     
    DennisTOTH0919, Aug 3, 2015
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  4. wptski Win User

    Win 7 and Win 10 Dual Boot

    You can purchase W8.1, install/active it as your second OS and then upgrade free to W10 just as I did. That's cheaper than just purchasing W10 outright. You can just install W10 on your other partition/HD but it won't be activated and I'm unsure what the consequences are of that. I had that for a short time but never tried to boot into W7 during that time.
     
    wptski, Aug 3, 2015
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