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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows 8 => Topic started by: Geek-9pm on December 27, 2016, 12:34:25 PM

Title: Do not install Win 8 after Win 10.
Post by: Geek-9pm on December 27, 2016, 12:34:25 PM

I already had Windows 10 up and running for several weeks. So I hought I would use left over partition space to try an install ofWindows 8 just to see whatthe diferencesw were.
BAD IDEA!
I nearly lost everything on tghe dirve and it got so messed up I can to dig up by backup copy on anotgher drive. I keep two and even three backups of sutff.

So now I am here using Windows 10 and I am saying  do nottry to install Windows 8 on the same disk as Windows 10. Unless you do the Windows 8 install fairst.

Otherwise the Windows 8 install rubs out importgant information for Windows 10 and yhu will not be able to recover the Windopws 10 install. Except with a full recovery method.

So from nowI Iwill remember,instal 8 first, then 10-. Never the other way.
Just wanted to say this. Maybe yhou already knew that.  :)

Title: Re: Do not install Win 8 after Win 10.
Post by: Salmon Trout on December 27, 2016, 01:52:00 PM

Very old rule - install the older version first!

Title: Re: Do not install Win 8 after Win 10.
Post by: patio on December 27, 2016, 03:36:58 PM

Been around as long as i can remember...