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.
I’ll give that a try first. I do have wi dows 10 on an old HD (I have several that were dying) but never really liked windows 10 so I went and put my 7 HD back on, maybe I can revert the windows 10 back to 7 on the old drive and then upgrade to 11 too, just to have an emergency backup drive incase my windows 7 machine goes down and I want to have a change for a bit. I have a couple fo older drives wit windows 7, so al. Won’t be lost if something ghappens,
Lol I have so. Many older drives I’m losing track of what is what 😆