I am running W7 Ultimate on this machine, and although other posts suggest that it may be OK to install W10 (the W10 update check says that my machine meets requirements), I'm very reluctant to upgrade.
This is because of the conflicting reports on upgradeability and working, combined with some horor stories about reverting to Win7 if the upgrade to W10 fall flat on its face.
I recently swapped my C: drive for a high-capacity SSD, and am using the original HDD, partitioned, for Temp files, Mozilla profiles etc. It still has the W7 boot on it, although obviously no updates have been applied to the system on the HDD, as they've all gone to that on the C: SSD.
My questions are these:-
- I understand that an installation ISO for W10 can be downloaded from Microsoft for purpose of e.g. clean reinstalling W10. Is this so, and if so, where do I get it from?
- Can the install location of W10 be specified i.e. drive letter? Therefore:-
- Is it possible for me to install W10 to my non-booting HDD old C: drive (letter now F:) totally independently of my W7 system, and without touching the W7 installation? If so, can I
- Use the W10 system on my HDD F: drive, and selectively boot into W10 at startup by choosing F: as the "one-off" boot device.
- I would also avoid over-use of my SSD.
If this is possible, and my understanding is correct that W10 is a complete package including drivers, I would then be able to tell immediately whether my system will work with W10 and, if it doesn't, perhaps what it needs to do so.
This would be the best of both worlds, as my W7 default system off C: would be unaffected and would, as usual, be the normal boot. I can then stick with it, or play around with both until I choose which to default to.
I realise that I could perhaps install W10 to a Virtual Machine, but would prefer not to, at least until the above is answered in some form.
Thanks for your help.