Windows 10 Announced - Released 29-Jul-2015

Do you have UltraISO to create a UFD from the ISO? Windows installs much faster from a UFD.

 

Never heard of it.

 

Get a usb stick and put on it an .iso file.

Works a lot better than the old crappy cd-rom.

 

I have it all ready to install except it's flagging Windows Security Center-which I understand and is not supported. If I disable it, can I proceed?

 

Is this from booting the boot disk?

 

This is now booting from the W7 CD DVD tool. with my USB plugged in http://wudt.codeplex.com/

 

OK. I didn't see that error.

 

(There were no prompts to tell me where to install, as I clicked custom) So now I have a Windows Preview only as far as I can tell.

Edit: Disk management says Windows 7 is there, but I can't choose between it and Windows 10...why?

My partitions have been untouched from earlier.

 

One more thing..It was installed via Drive F (295 GB, my USB) If I disconnected the USB, I wonder what would occur.

 

One million users already -
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/15/one_million_people_already_running_windows_10/

 

No prompts, but you chose the 295 GB partition. Correct?

Do you get a boot menu before Windows loads?

Are both of your partitions on internal drives? You mentioned USB.

Edit... Can you post a screenshot of Disk Management?

 

I had no option to as I recall. The system rebooted and went straight to Windows 10. I thought I was going to get an option to choose.

No two internal drives, no boot menu, Drive F is the USB (created in case it failed or had issues so it would not wreck Windows 7).

Edit: Now I know why. It says Windows 10 is my primary partition, but Windows 7 is still intact. (I'd be a lot more worried if Windows Seven was deleted in favor of Windows Ten). Is there an option to make Windows 7 the primary boot, with Windows Ten secondary? http://i57.tinypic.com/f09pp2.png

 

Another one (for my bad eyes since I am legally blind) so I can see what I have done

 

Looks to me like you have installed Windows 10 to a partition on the same disk that Windows 7 is on, would be better to either use a VM like Vmware or Virtualbox or install it onto another separate disk in the system. Your attached image shows the first partition to be the Windows 7 system reserved one, the next one is your Windows 7 Partition & the last one is the Windows 10 one.

 

Banzi,
That's what the E drive was for, except I did not get an option to select it. Is there a way to put everything on that drive and have a choice between Windows 7 and Windows 10 (E drive) at boot?

Edit: It was originally drive F.

 

sportsfan7700,

I have some bad news for you. You have installed the Win10 OS into the Win7 partition instead of into the Win10 partition. The Win7 OS is gone. Over-written. I hope you have a Win7 backup image so you can recover.

When you do a Custom Windows OS install you are presented with a list of partitions. I'm afraid you chose the wrong partition to install into. Disk Management shows your Win10 partition is empty. 100% Free Space.

 

Rats. I had used my last disk for the Windows 10 image. Well, it's time for a reinstall and a trip to get more disks

 

Are you able to boot into Win7? If not then I would agree with BrianK that you might have installed it on the Win7 partition. I would recommend wiping the disk if Win7 has been lost & maybe buy a small 250-500gb HDD & install that, Install Win7 back on your main HDD & name the disk in Windows as Win7 & set it up & use Macrium reflect free to back it up then install Win10 on the new disk & you should then get the boot menu that will allow you to boot between Win7 & Win10.

 

I just reinstalled W7. I'm very surprised when I created the drive before, it did not see it.

 

I'm unsure how to use reflect.

 

sportsfan7700,

Using an image/restore app is highly recommended, especially if using multiple OS.

Your previous idea of having two OS partitions on the one HD is fine. I have all my OS (15 or so) on the same HD. Just make sure you choose the correct partition for the Win10 install next time.

 

Basically you install the free version & then run it & create either a boot DVD or USB, that will require a download of the winPE but reflect handles that for you. Once it has downloaded you create the boot medium & keep it safe somewhere then just tick the disk & partitions (in your case your fresh Win7 install which should be the system reserved & C drive partitions) you want to back up & click image this disk & specify a external drive as the location to save the backup to then click next then finish & it will backup your fresh Win7 install to the external drive you specified.

I have attached a image to show this, the first tick box that is highlighted will select the whole of that disk including all partitions (I'm on Win 8.1.1 & the SSD is GPT formatted so that is why I have 4 partitions in total) then click Image this disk that is highlighted & that's all there is to it.

 

http://www.ghacks.net/2014/10/16/what-users-want-to-see-integrated-in-windows-10/

 

sportsfan7700,

Out of interest, I just setup a Microsoft dual boot with Win7 and Win10.

When you come to install Win10 choose "Custom: Install Windows only (Advanced)"
You then see a "Where do you want to install Windows" list. Such as this...

Drive 0 Partition 1:System Reserved
Drive 0 Partition 2:Win7
Drive 0 Partition 3:Win10

You will also see Total Size, Free Space and Type. You will see the Win10 partition is almost empty.
If you don't click and select the Win10 partition the install will go to the Win7 partition as it is selected by default.

You get a boot menu to choose your OS.

Each OS is C: drive when it boots.

 

How can I use my usb stick to download and boot? http://i.imgur.com/UvVEsrk.jpg