http://www.dslreports.com/forum/WIN8-WIN7-and-Win8-Dual-Boot-27991919 en Sun, 26 May 2013 05:02:11 EDT Sun, 26 May 2013 05:02:11 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-WIN8-WIN7-and-Win8-Dual-Boot-27993241 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-WIN8-WIN7-and-Win8-Dual-Boot-27993241 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:11:26 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-WIN8-WIN7-and-Win8-Dual-Boot-27992341
My plan is, if I enjoy using Win 8, is to switch to it full-time. Mostly a trial. I would have done such in a Virtualbox but there are display limitations which would not give a good experience and the Win8 Key would be registeed to the VM box.

Many thanks for your input.

Regards,

Dennis]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-WIN8-WIN7-and-Win8-Dual-Boot-27992341 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:53:31 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-WIN8-WIN7-and-Win8-Dual-Boot-27992314
Not that that would stop me. Just sayin'.

But other than that your plan sounds OK to me.

Dave
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I would like to try out Win 8 Pro on my existing Win7 Setup. To save some money I bought the Win 8 Pro upgrade which requires an existing install of Win7 to register the new Win8 key. I was thinking of shrinking my current Win 7 partition, creating a new one for a dual-boot environment. I would then perform a clean Win7 install in the new partition and then upgrade it to Win 8. I will create a backup image of the drive with Ghost 15 prior to doing anything.

Does this sound viable?
What pitfalls should I watch out for?

Feedback would be most appreciated.

Dennis]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/WIN8-WIN7-and-Win8-Dual-Boot-27991919 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:04:29 EDT