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Answer» I completed upgrade from Win 7 to Win 10. So far everything seems to be working great. I have a Macrium image of my C drive with Win 7 on an external HD. Can I create a new partition on my C drive and restore my Win 7 image there? That way I can dual boot to either OS. I have done some research and it appears to be a relatively easy thing to do, even for a computer dummy like myself. Can someone advise me or give me a link to the BEST/easiest way to do this? Thanks.I am a certified computer dummy and I can tell you it is never easy. If your computer's hard disk has adequate free disk space, you can install a newer version of Windows on a separate partition and keep the earlier version of Windows on your computer. This is CALLED a multiboot or dual-boot configuration. Whenever you start your computer, you can then choose which version of Windows to run. For more information... Thanks Geek. Yes, that is what I concluded after some more reading. As I understand it, my W7 license became my W10 license when I did the free upgrade. I am very happy with 10 so I have lost interest in the dual boot. I am keeping a couple 7 Macrium images just in case, at least for a little while.I think there is an option in Windows 10 to revert back to Windows 7 if you are not happy. But some documentation is needed. The link below seems to be right. http://www.howtogeek.com/220723/how-to-uninstall-windows-10-and-downgrade-to-windows-7-or-8.1/ Quote Don’t like Windows 10? As long as you’ve upgraded within the last month, you can uninstall Windows 10 and downgrade your PC back to its original Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 operating system. You can always upgrade to Windows 10 again later.In my case, I keep the documents in a separate place in my backups so that I can restore the documents after a fresh install. Because a clean install with erase the partition. EDIT: The link above seems to be the best on how to downgrade Widows 10 the right way. It has screen shots that are very helpful. No need to discuss downgrading now. He said he is happy with Windows 10. Quote from: soybean on August 11, 2015, 10:58:46 AM No need to discuss downgrading now. He said he is happy with Windows 10.Right, I posted the link to answer the original question for the benefit of others. The downgrade feature is an important move made by Microsoft to help people decide. Just knowing that you can downgrade makes the decision to try easier for some. Quote from: artbuc on August 11, 2015, 02:03:42 AM Thanks Geek. Yes, that is what I concluded after some more reading. As I understand it, my W7 license became my W10 license when I did the free upgrade. I am very happy with 10 so I have lost interest in the dual boot. I am keeping a couple 7 Macrium images just in case, at least for a little while.That's exactly what I have done. Did get a dual boot to work but probably SPENT a week on it. The issue is the EFI file which resides on the System partition; Macrium has a "fix boot" but it didn't work on the dual boot configuration, Win10-Pro & Win7-Home. I could select Win10 & it would boot Win7 & after a mod, vice versa. Visual BCD did the final fix. |
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