To: dayglored
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?
11 posted on
06/18/2021 10:15:04 AM PDT by
Bob434
To: Bob434
I am staying on Win 7 as long as I could.
To: Bob434
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...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.
15 posted on
06/18/2021 10:17:09 AM PDT by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: Bob434
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.
32 posted on
06/18/2021 10:34:09 AM PDT by
TomGuy
To: Bob434
Image your hard drive first. Prolly a good idea with any OS upgrade. If it breaks, restore the image.
68 posted on
06/18/2021 12:45:37 PM PDT by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: Bob434
#11 Get the free Oracle VM VirtualBox
Install Window 11 to that. I have Win10 installed in a Oracle VM VirtualBox.
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