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Installing Win7 on a Win8 Machine
It has been many years since I have had a brand name Desk Top. I think it might have been a Tandy 1000. See what I mean about many years? I have put together many of my own or had a local shop put one or two together. I will be faced with getting an additional Desktop machine sometime next year for a family member and expect it will have Win 8 installed.
I will want to install Win 7 on the Win 8 partition but will want to retain the factory installed Win 8 recovery partition for reasons I find it hard to explain right now. Will the clean install of Win 7 mess up the boot manager or whatever such that I will be unable to recover the original factory installed Win 8?
The above is moot if I can find a new machine with Win 7 on it rather than Win 8.
Thanks for any help.
Last edited by jsquareg; 19 Aug 2012 at 16:08. Reason: Clarification