How to remove Windows 7 From a Dual Boot with Windows 8?
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winsecrets.com - date:
April 2, 2013
How do you safely remove Windows 7 Pro (32-bit) from a dual boot with Windows 8 Pro (64-bit)? I'm quite happy with Windows 8 Pro (since I've got Start8 to give me the Start button, menus, and booting directly into the desktop).
The scenario:
Both are on the same hard drive (an SSD).
Windows 7 was on the hard drive initially. I added Windows 8 on a new partition and am ready to completely abandon Windows 7.
I have not been able to find information on how to safely remove the Windows 7 partition.
The advice I've come upon online suggests:
(1) Reformat the Windows 7 partition or delete the Windows 7 partition.
(2) Expand the Windows 8 partition to occupy the entire drive.
(3) Remove the Windows 7 choice from by going into System Co
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Windows 7 dual boot to Windows 8, using Win. 8 upgrade
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winsecrets.com - date:
February 21, 2013
Trying to do something, leaves me a bit undecided if it can be done. This is a new Dell Inspiron, Windows 7 with 64 bit OS. Microsoft offered that when I bought this laptop, I could buy Windows 8, for $15, which I did. Unfortunately, even with almost 19 years of computing experience, I missed the term UPGRADE, in Microsoft's offer, and got a downloaded upgrade to Windows 8, which means over writing Windows 7, which I don't want to do. Microsoft changed Windows 8 a great deal from what I've read, so my plan had been to partition my HD, which I already did, but when I got the upgrade, I found an upgraded Win. 8, MUST be installed over the existing Windows 7. No good. I want both, Win 7 to use, and Win 8 to learn on. But I thought of this meth
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How do I dual boot with Windows 8 Release Preview?
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microsoft.com - date:
January 31, 2012
I want to try Windows 8 Release Preview, but I don’t want to install over my current version of Windows.
How can I dual boot so I can go back and forth between the two?
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Install windows 7 on my windows 8/ dual boot my windows 8
location:
8forums.com - date:
April 5, 2013
Someone can help me? have windows 8 RTM installed in my HP Pavilion G4
but after trying it for a month, i get bored with it
and missed my windows 7 interface
so anyone can tell me:
how to dual boot my windows 8 alongside windows 7?
or if it isn't possible can i downgrade my windows 8 to windows 7 without losing any files?
THANK YOU
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how to set up a Dual Boot on Windows 8 OS .. need to add Windows 7
location:
microsoft.com - date:
March 5, 2013
I just bought an Acer Aspire M Touch with Windows 8 OS.
I need to set up a dual boot to add Windows 7.
I need Windows 7 to use company VPN
How do I set up a dual boot with Windows 8
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Windows 8 dual boot installed, Windows 8 won't boot up. Black Screen!
location:
8forums.com - date:
March 5, 2012
Hey guys, I am having an issue when installing the consumer preview. So, I downloaded the Windows 8 iso, off of Microsoft's site. I burned it to a DVD with 4.7 GB free of storage. I even bought a new set of DVDs. Anyways, I downloaded the iso, I downloaded the USB/DVD download tool, there I burned my iso to the DVD. So, I then create a partition on my computer (I gave the new partition 200 GB of storage). I rebooted my computer, pressed F12 and access the burned DVD. So, I click custom installation, and I install the new OS, onto the partition with 200 GB. I named it the partition Windows 8, so I wouldn't get confused. I clicked it, and installed Windows 8 onto it. Anyways, once it extracts the data and installs all the updates, my compute
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How do I dual boot with Windows 8 Release Preview?
location:
microsoft.com - date:
January 31, 2012
I guess I'm not sure why you can't find IE??? When you are in the Metro Startup screen, it's is one of the prominently displayed tiles. If you've switched to the desktop side, then it's prominently displayed in the taskbar.
Since this is a complete departure from the way things have always been done, I did spend an hour or so to read about some of the basics such as how to use the corners and how to search. Search is the easiest thing in the Metro side - you simply start typing
- no clicking on Start or anything. One of the better tutorials out there is Ed Bott's on how to personalize your Metro startup screen. That one alone taught me a lot about how to find things such as settings, apps, etc. It's
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Want to dual boot with Windows 8 Release Preview
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microsoft.com - date:
July 8, 2012
i have windows 8 release preview successfully.now i want a dual boot with my old windows. i have 'windows.old' folder in my windows 8 drive.how would i do it???
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How to remove windows 7 from dual boot keeping windows 8?
location:
microsoft.com - date:
January 27, 2013
I have recently dual booted my pc. Now i want to keep Windows 8 only and remove windows 7.
Please tell me the way without any harm to my pc or win8
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Remove Windows 7 from Dual Boot with Windows 8
location:
8forums.com - date:
August 30, 2012
Hello EF guys
I just want to ask the gurus here;
I wanted to remove Windows 7 from dual boot with Windows 8 and reclaim the Windows 7 partition for backup purposes, and Use Windows 8 as a Main and only OS on my notebook...
Additional info;
I first installed Windows 7 on this notebook and install Windows 8 on new Partition, but now wanted to Use Windows 8 and remove Windows 7...
Any help guys. Thank you.
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