hello i am trying to upgrade my legit windows 7 ultimate to windows 8 without loosing personal files and settings, using bootable windows 8 iso from USB, but at the end of process it gives me error and rolling back all the procees. can someone explain to me how to upgrade from win 7 ultimate to win 8 or 8.1 without loosing data from usb. thanks
From bootable USB... Only Drive C Affected, If you Choose Custom installation you must backup personal files, etc before it
Boot into your windows 7. Insert win8.0 dvd or iso. Run setup.exe If you want to upgrade to 8.1, you need to go through 8.0 first or you will not successfully keep your programs and settings. Make sure to allow the setup program to have access to internet and let it download updates. This is important. If you don't allow it to download updates, there's a high probability that you will corrupt your installation.
Thanks for the reminder Murph.. Personally I never upgraded from 7 to 8, always do/did clean installs. Good thing I kept my 8.0 iso's.