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Dualboot Windows 10 and Windows 8.1?

Levi Leach
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So for obvious reasons Ive been wanting upgrade to Windows 10 on my laptop. However, for other reasons that aren't necessarily relevant I DO want to keep Windows 8 on it... interesting predicament. I was wondering if anyone has experience dual booting operating systems on a laptop or in general. I'm assuming it's fairly simple? (Install 10 ISO on a USB Drive, create a partition in system memory, etc. Etc.)I'm sure I'm not the only one to think of this, but I just wanted to get people's opinions and experiences. Thanks so much.

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you're going to have activation issues with win10 if it's the same key as win8.1

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You cant, unless you buy a new windows 8 key, because once you upgrade to windows 10, the key is tied to windows 10 and your windows 8 license is gone!

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New thought... considering Microsoft is taking little to no steps to counteract "pirates" from upgrading, what if I downloaded a windows 7 ISO if I could figure out how, upgrade to Windows 10 from THAT one, then dual boot?

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Dual boot isn't a big problem, you'll find a way... Anyway you'll need 2 licenses...

 

More interesting- at least for me, is what will happen if you use same Microsoft account in both OS...

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You will need to open disk management and create a new partition, and then when installing 10 you select the partition you created. Pretty simple :D

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....Pretty simple :D

Yes, it's pretty simple... If you want to f*ck up everything it's very simple... Dual boot is not so easy thing...

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Yes, it's pretty simple... If you want to f*ck up everything it's very simple... Dual boot is not so easy thing...

 

Not really, my post above is literally all you need to do.

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