No you don't need to do that. Just run Windows 8 installer on Windows 7 and use upgrade option when asked. Your current programs, settings will be kept as it is and it will not affect other drives and their data.
+1 to this.. Although I hated Win 8 and went back to Win7 .. I cant fault the upgrade process.. was VERY smooth.
(with usual caveat.. take a backup of important data first.. Just in case).
No You Dont Need To Completely wipe your hard disk
all you need to do is just download windows 8 iso
and burn it on a disk or make a bootable pendrive or mound the disk on windows 7 and start the setup
you can install windows 8 over 7 without any data loss
No you don't need to do that. Just run Windows 8 installer on Windows 7 and use upgrade option when asked. Your current programs, settings will be kept as it is and it will not affect other drives and their data.
No you don't need to do that. Just run Windows 8 installer on Windows 7 and use upgrade option when asked. Your current programs, settings will be kept as it is and it will not affect other drives and their data.
+1 to this.. Although I hated Win 8 and went back to Win7 .. I cant fault the upgrade process.. was VERY smooth.
(with usual caveat.. take a backup of important data first.. Just in case).
Thanks for all the help guys! This is really useful. I am building a computer and plan to put windows 7 on it because I prefer it over windows 8, but I wanted to now if I could upgrade in the future. Once again, thanks! (Man I love this forum!)
Microsoft is ending Windows 7 support in Jan-2015. Keep that in mind please as there won't be any updates after Jan-15 for Windows 7.
Jez.. you are the master of half truths..
It Jan 2015 for mainstream support (so for new features ) .. it supported until Jan 2020 for extended support (so for normal patches and security patches).
Microsoft is ending Windows 7 support in Jan-2015. Keep that in mind please as there won't be any updates after Jan-15 for Windows 7.
Jez.. you are the master of half truths..
It Jan 2015 for mainstream support (so for new features ) .. it supported until Jan 2020 for extended support (so for normal patches and security patches).
HTH
Cheers
"Master of half truths" is not welcome . Anyhow, you are right. I was not aware of extended support period. Thanks for pointing that out.