[Bob434]

Question, can we who have windows 7 down load the iso and try it out on say a other hd? Or Wil, they force it to overwrite windows 7 in order to install to try it out? My windows 7 is oem version, sometimes run into problems upgrading because it’s an oem and not a box serial key number. I supposed I cou,d take one of my old hd’s with 7 on it and overwrite if needed, or buy a cheap new HD, install 7 to it, then overwrite, while keeping my original al HD with 7 on it for use.

Wonder if it can be tried out in a virtual machine?

[RBW in PA]

I am staying on Win 7 as long as I could.

[dayglored]

> ...buy a cheap new HD, install 7 to it, then overwrite, while keeping my original al HD with 7 on it for use...

That's a reasonable option.

> Wonder if it can be tried out in a virtual machine?

I'm quite sure that would work. Make a Win7 VM, then upgrade into the VM. Don't touch your main/host system.

[TomGuy]

Question, can we who have windows 7 down load the iso and try it out on say a other hd?

What I did with 7 and 10: I had an extra 1 TB hard drive. I cloned the Win7 and used that HD to upgrade to 10. I still have that original and have not kept it upgraded. I use the 7 HD/Desktop daily.

If this 11 thing does come about, I may do the same -- clone 7 onto the 10 HD and let it update to 11.

I use Macrium Reflect [free for home use] to create images/clones of HD partitions.

[Still Thinking]

Image your hard drive first. Prolly a good idea with any OS upgrade. If it breaks, restore the image.

[minnesota_bound]

#11 Get the free Oracle VM VirtualBox
Install Window 11 to that. I have Win10 installed in a Oracle VM VirtualBox.