Thread: Install Win 8 Upgrade

Why go through the trouble of fresh installing Win 7. Why not just Custom (Clean) install Win 8?

During the download of Win 8 choose Save Nothing, then choose Custom Install. You will be given and option of Install now, Install by Creating Media or Install later from desktop. Choose Install by creating media. This will allow you to burn the ISO file to DVD to use. (Right click the ISO file and choose Burn Disk Image). This creates a bootable DVD. This will also then give you an installation media for future use.

Now boot to the DVD and install Win 8 from there without having to do anything to Win 7.

If you decide to go ahead and Upgrade Win 7, no you do not have to update it, but why bother going through this extra step.

Originally Posted by Medicted60

Why not just Custom (Clean) install Win 8?
During the download of Win 8 choose Save Nothing, then choose Custom Install. You will be given and option of Install now, Install by Creating Media or Install later from desktop. Choose Install by creating media. This will allow you to burn the ISO file to DVD to use. (Right click the ISO file and choose Burn Disk Image). This creates a bootable DVD. This will also then give you an installation media for future use.

Now boot to the DVD and install Win 8 from there without having to do anything to Win 7.

I will do as you have advised, that is exactly what I want. It is a multi- media laptop with lots of drivers which get installed from the disks I have from the Win 7 installation but I have copied them to another partition and can install them from there.
Thank you.