Installing windows info

DillonH · 27 Jul 2016

This is what it shows when I go to Disk Management:

And this is when I right click on my SSD drive and click the shrink option:

I shrunk 80g of the ssd a second ago like you said

Megahertz07 · 27 Jul 2016

Did you notice you had a 78G unallocated? How many times did you shrink your Win7 partition?
Now, remove your HDD, boot from your Win 10 installation media and install on the blank (raw) partition.

DillonH · 27 Jul 2016

All I've done so far is shrunk that SSD by 80,000mbs. I was going to do the free windows 10 upgrade they are offering everyone and I haven't even downloaded it yet.

Megahertz07 · 27 Jul 2016

Download Win10, create a DVD or USB drive, and do a clean install.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/soft...load/windows10

DillonH · 27 Jul 2016

Sorry if I'm making you mad with all these dumb questions.

So if I do that last thing you said about downloading Windows 10 I'll be able to go back and forth between 7 and 10 whenever?

ThrashZone · 28 Jul 2016

DillonH said:

Sorry if I'm making you mad with all these dumb questions.

So if I do that last thing you said about downloading Windows 10 I'll be able to go back and forth between 7 and 10 whenever?

Hi,
I wouldn't make a habit of going back and forth
No telling when Micro... will enforce reactivating the same key that was used to upgrade with :)

To dual boot 7 and 10 legally you'd need 2 completely separate activation keys so if that is your intention buy win-10 or another win-7 and dual boot away

DillonH · 28 Jul 2016

I just went ahead and upgraded my windows 7 to 10 and used my 7 activation key and then reverted back to 7. I made a partition for Windows 10 and downloaded it to a bootable usb drive and then installed it into that partition I made. So now I can dual boot between the 2. Legal or not that's the way I did it.

DillonH · 28 Jul 2016

Thanks for all the help @Megahertz07

AddRAM · 28 Jul 2016

Pretty good idea. hope it works out ok, keep us posted.

DillonH · 29 Jul 2016

AddRAM said:

Pretty good idea. hope it works out ok, keep us posted.

So far it's been working fine for me. I still never was able to fix my slowed down internet speeds on my windows 7 but when I boot into windows 10 the internet speed is fast again. I have another thread posted about that and I never found a fix for it. It's almost a lost cause for me at this point.