I don't know if Win8 supports a side-by-side upgrade installation - that's something I haven't tried. All the literature I've seen only talks of in-place upgrades.
The custom install option might do what you're looking for, but I'm not sure. Jamie On 2013-11-18 1:45 PM, Winterlight wrote: > OK I installed from within windows 7, but Win 8 never gave me the > opportunity to install in another partition so it overwrote the > Windows 7 install. I must of done something wrong but what? When it > asked if I wanted to keep data and libraries I send no thinking it > would ask me where I wanted to put Win 8... maybe that was my mistake. > Right now I am just going to restore my windows 7 install from my > image file backup and then try again. > > > At 12:15 PM 11/18/2013, you wrote: >> >Can I boot off the Win 8 DVD and install that way or do I need to start >> the install from within windows 7? >> You need to start the upgrade from within Windows - booting straight >> from the disc won't upgrade and your key may not work either (as it's an >> upgrade key, not a full install key). >> >> >I guess there is no way I can just install Windows 8.1 direct.. can I? >> No, you must install 8 and then do the 8.1 upgrade through the store. >> Even if you could, I don't think you'd actually want to, as 8.1 doesn't >> upgrade 7, it does a migration. That means that you would have to >> reinstall all your apps. Your user account is migrated over so all your >> settings and data are kept, but the apps aren't brought over. >> >> Jamie >> >> >> On 2013-11-18 12:19 AM, Winterlight wrote: >> > Last year I bought one of the 25 dollar Windows 8 Pro upgrade iso >> > download deals from MS. I am now ready to install it and have a few >> > questions. >> > I have all ready installed Win7 on another hard drive with the boot >> > drive located on a clean SSD ready for Windows 8 to do the upgrade. >> > Can I boot off the Win 8 DVD and install that way or do I need to >> > start the install from within windows 7? >> > I guess there is no way I can just install Windows 8.1 direct.. can I? >> > thanks m >> > >> >> -- >> Jamie Furtner ja...@furtner.ca > -- Jamie Furtner ja...@furtner.ca
