Hi,
i may have a little bit a special question, but maybe for the support professionals it's also just a piece of cake. I searched the web but could not find an answer to my "challenge":
I have three pc's that were sold to me with Win 7 installed and a license-card that allows for upgrading to Win 10.
On all of these PC's, a number of "special" programs, some as services are running and it's not 100% clear if all will run under Win 10. So, I would like to have kind of a grant period to test everything intensively and be able to choose the OS on boot.
My idea is the following (for each PC):
AND NOW ... HOW TO DO THAT:
- install a boot manager - post installation (or, if necessary also do it BEFORE the above said upgrade) - that allows me to select which of the installations to run upon boot time.
Also, by having two physical separated disks, I hope to cirumvent the known "Chkdsk" problems of a "classical" dual-boot Win 10 installation.
Can that be achieved using EasyBCD? And if so, is there an "step-by-step" tutorial to be found?
Thanks a lot in advance for your help.
i may have a little bit a special question, but maybe for the support professionals it's also just a piece of cake. I searched the web but could not find an answer to my "challenge":
I have three pc's that were sold to me with Win 7 installed and a license-card that allows for upgrading to Win 10.
On all of these PC's, a number of "special" programs, some as services are running and it's not 100% clear if all will run under Win 10. So, I would like to have kind of a grant period to test everything intensively and be able to choose the OS on boot.
My idea is the following (for each PC):
- have a second HDD/SSD
- clone the existing W7 installation to the new disk
- uninstall one of them
- install Win 10 update on the residing disk
- install the old disk again
AND NOW ... HOW TO DO THAT:
- install a boot manager - post installation (or, if necessary also do it BEFORE the above said upgrade) - that allows me to select which of the installations to run upon boot time.
Also, by having two physical separated disks, I hope to cirumvent the known "Chkdsk" problems of a "classical" dual-boot Win 10 installation.
Can that be achieved using EasyBCD? And if so, is there an "step-by-step" tutorial to be found?
Thanks a lot in advance for your help.
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