Things like Windows Hello face login, clipboard history, touch-screen support, multiple virtual desktops, Quick Access in File Explorer, Cortana voice assistant, and even the Edge browser improve my daily computing. And in my experience (and that of many I know), it's been pretty delightful to use. The Windows 7 faithful have nothing to fear, though Windows 10 isn't much of a paradigm shift from the now-decade-old OS. 14, you won't have any choice but to upgrade to Windows 10-unless you want to lose security updates and support.
But I'd be curious to know if anyone else who dual-boots in this way has successfully run the Win7 to Win10 upgrade. The simple answer may be I won't know till I try, and the upgrade process will, or should, alert me - before it runs - if EasyBCD (like AV programs) won't play nicely. Will an in-place upgrade of Win 7 keep, and transfer, my EasyBCD program and settings - and the changes it has made to the Windows bootloader to enable dual boot with Linux - to Win 10? The main exception seems to be third-party AV programs, which need to be removed from Win7 and then reinstalled in Win10 after the upgrade. This is supposed to preserve all existing files, apps and settings in Win7 and move them onward to the Win 10 install. In theory, it seems that I can do an in-place upgrade (I've read the tutorial.). I would now like to upgrade the Win7 to Win10. It modifies the Windows bootloader so that it can "see" the Linux OS on a separate partition and offer the option to boot into it. A clever program called EasyBCD can be installed in Windows. The hazard with this is that any Windows upgrade which affects the Windows boot manager will fail, and perhaps also affect the GRUB - potentially rendering both systems unbootable.īut there is another way. The normal approach is to have the Linux bootloader "GRUB" take over from, and replace, the Windows boot manager in the MBR, and boot either OS. I am using what seems to be a less-typical option for dual-booting.
I also have a laptop which has Win 7 Pro installed, along with Linux Mint in a dual boot setup. I have recently done successful clean installs and activations of Win 10 with the help of Shawn Brink's tutorials and advice from other forum members. But given the depth of expertise, someone might have advice to offer! This is probably an unfair question to ask in this forum.
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