There's a lot of information here, a bit overwhelming if you've been away for a while. I would like to see if what I am planning to do is the good choice: At the moment I'm running Windows 7 professional, DAZ activated. What I plan to do: Create another partition on my SSD for windows 10. Dual boot for the time being with the Windows 7 system. So what I do not want to do is upgrade my present windows 7 to Windows 10, because obviously I can't dual boot anymore . Would this be a good way to go about it? 1. Clone the Windows 7 system partition 2. Use the " Windows 10 free upgrade for customers who use assistive technologies" so I obtain a genuine licence. (I presume this upgrade will be installed on top of the existing Windows 7 system) (Running the win 7 professional version, I presume I will automatically get the " pro " version of Windows 10?) 3.using the obtained genuine licence to do a fresh install of Windows 10 on the newly created partition. 4. clone the Windows 7 image back to it' s original partition, overwriting Windows 10 upgrade. If there is a better way to do this I' d appreciate your suggestions. Thanks
Once you've done what Wazoo linked to you'll want to open up command prompt as an administrator and enter the following. Code: bcdedit /set {current} bootmenupolicy legacy bcdedit /set {default} bootstatuspolicy ignoreshutdownfailures Once you've done that you can reboot back into Windows 7 and reinstall the loader.
Thanks for your help, Indeed, a much better way to go about it. Doing it this way I don't have to touch the existing windows 7 installation at all. I had actually read this text before, I didn't quite get it, reading it again, a bit slower this time, I see how it works. Just a couple of points which are not clear to me: Point 1: ' Install all necessary drivers before the next step otherwise your hardware id may not match the Windows 10 hardware id." I am already running win 7 so which drivers do I have to add? Point 2: So i don't need the " assistive technology upgrade " ? The regular iso from microsoft.com/windows10ISO will still work? @DAZ Thanks Daz, and thank you for providing us with your excellent loader! I activated my Windows 7 system more than three years ago with your loader, only had to reapply it once after a faulty hard disk messed up my install.
Normal upgrade (to establish a free HWID for 10) using the iso still works, yen's gatherosstate shortcut also still works
Windows 10 is installed and activated! I followed the instructions as given in the link from wazoo. I used the regular iso from microsoft.com/windows10ISO. Entered the bcdedit code downloaded the latest Daz loader and ran it, so win 7 is also activated again. Right after installing i got a win 10 bootmenu with the 2 choices, after i entered the bcdedit code it was replaced wit the old dos style bootmenu, which works fine. So it turned out to be less complicated than i expected, thanks to your tips; thanks. Cheers