Hi-
 
This is more or less a follow on to this post: http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3265401
 
I still haven't received my upgrade, but I did register under both Win 7 and Win 8.1 on my dual boot system. Does anyone have experience with getting the upgrade with a dual boot system? I gather from the link that I can choose one OS or the other, but I haven't found much more info on this online. I'm leaning towards upgrading just 8.1 if I need to choose.
 
Thanks-
 
-Susan
 
 

Interested as well.. Inc Linux.
Be interested to hear what bootloaders people are using as well.

Hi Susan,
 
I run a tri-boot system (Win7 and XP, and UbuntuStudio) and was hoping to use my Win7 upgrade on my XP drive.  I haven't thoroughly researched this yet, but I did a quick search and it looks like the WinX Media installer may do the trick.  I plan on looking into this more this evening.  I'll get back to you when I can give you an answer.

SF_Green
Hi Susan,
 
I run a tri-boot system (Win7 and XP, and UbuntuStudio) and was hoping to use my Win7 upgrade on my XP drive.  I haven't thoroughly researched this yet, but I did a quick search and it looks like the WinX Media installer may do the trick.  I plan on looking into this more this evening.  I'll get back to you when I can give you an answer.

Hi Bud-


I'll be interested to hear what you find out. I still haven't received my upgrade, even though MS says my PC meets the requirements. I'm not in any big rush anyway, though.
 
Thanks!
 
-Susan

Hi Susan, it doesn't matter which Windows version you upgrade as long as you've got at least one eligible product on your machine as once the upgrade happens it's your device (computer in this case) that gets authorized and licensed to use the new version.
 
Once that has happened and your machine is activated you can install whatever operating system you want on it provided you still have the installation media and product keys to hand.  Your existing licenses for 7 and 8.1 will still be valid and you'll be licensed for 10 as well.
 
The edition of windows you are running is more important as the upgrade will go from like to like so if say W7 is the Pro edition and 8.1 is the Home edition then you'd probably want to upgrade your Pro edition as you'll end up with W10 Pro registered to that machine.
 
If however they are both the same edition of Windows then it will make no difference which partition gets upgraded other than choosing which version you personally prefer to keep on your spare boot partition.
 
You can force an upgrade now with the download tool so you don't have to wait but you don't have to do a thing otherwise as the upgrade will turn up in its own good time.

SF_Green
Hi Susan,
 
I run a tri-boot system (Win7 and XP, and UbuntuStudio) and was hoping to use my Win7 upgrade on my XP drive.  I haven't thoroughly researched this yet, but I did a quick search and it looks like the WinX Media installer may do the trick.  I plan on looking into this more this evening.  I'll get back to you when I can give you an answer.

Check out grub.

Back to Windows 10..

The big problem is windows 10 and multiboot, by all accounts it not supposed to be business as usual.

For starters will each elligable multiboot OS update to Windows 10.

Secondly will enforced secure boot screw up Linux.

Thirdly can we boot off C drives and hide partitions from windows when booting. For instance with Acronis OS selector (now discontinued) we can completely hide windows OS partitions from each other so they don't interfere with each other, and every time we start windows it's on a C drive.

Is there any element of disk losing the boot loader when upgrading (usually the answer is yes).

What if we simply just clone OS images using acronis OS or whatever.


Lots of Q's really.

I didn't find this much use but the basics are here:
http://www.techradar.com/...erating-system-1300472

Doktor Avalanche
I didn't find this much use but the basics are here:
http://www.techradar.com/...erating-system-1300472

Hey DA.
 
I tried answering the questions Susan had asked and hopefully I did that in saying that it didn't matter which partition got upgraded (as long as it's the edition (home or pro) ) you want to end up with as it's the machine that gets licensed with the qualifying product not the qualifying product itself, you'll still be able to re-install and use that further down the line if you wish or do a clean install of 10 on the same machine provided you've previously gone through the upgrade process once.
 
As far as managing boot partitions goes, I'm swapping OS disk images out all the time from just two partitions on a single drive XP, Linux, W7,8 or 10 it doesn't matter in which combination either.
 
However if YOU are having particular problems setting up different combinations why not just use this?:
 
EasyBCD makes your BCD operations easy just like it says.
 

I've been using dual boot for a decade or more..

BCD is the microsoft default and a stinking turd and will force all OS's to have a separate drive letter rather than just C: It also won't hide partitions effectively. Perhaps it's got better with win10 but I don't trust it.

Up until today I used Acronis OS selector which is buggy as hell but managed to get by. Finally I've managed to install grub with Linux which is no thrills but perfect. People not used to Linux will probably drown in it's complexity however.


I am still only running Windows 8.1 (3 different versions) and Linux.

Rumours are windows 10 will insist upon secure boot mode. Not only that motherboard manufacturer may later decide to enforce secureboot in the BIOS making dual to to Linux impossible.

There are lots of hard choices out there. I'm still curious to see if anybody has actually done Windows 10 dual boot (have you actually done it yet?), whether it moans about registration and whether they've got Linux working with it or not, and what their approach was.

Otherwise I guess I will dive into the deep end in the next few months. The DAW partition will be done last.

Thanks for the response.