Now install your old drive as a 2nd drive, and copy all of your data from the old drive to the new drive. * If you can reinstall and activate all needed software, remove the old drive and install the new drive, then do a clean install of 8.1 on the new drive, then install and activate all needed software in Windows 8.1. That said, you will now need to decide how to move from 7 to 8.1. An SSD would be a lot faster than a mechanical hard drive. By getting a new drive, you set the failure clock back to zero.Ģ. If the computer currently has a mechanical hard drive, it is getting old. Oscar, the PC you are dealing with is likely several years old, so I strongly suggest getting a new hard drive – preferably an SSD.

(4) Anything else relevant that might also be worth considering here. (4) Customizing 8.1 to look as much as possible like 7.

(3) Can we move our Win 7 applications (both x32 and 圆4) to 8.1 from some kind of system image disk of the Win 7 HD? If so, which ones we can, which we cannot and, for those we can, how this may be done? (2) How to install 8.1 safely, after backing up 7 to an external HD or SSD. (1) How best to back up the user’s data previous to installing 8.1 while wiping out 7. These are some topics where some enlightening comments might be very useful and most warmly appreciated:

Some of us have the installer disk for 8.1 and, for our benefit, perhaps it would be the moment to welcome those wise in such matters to share their knowledge and advise us on the installation of 8.1 in an, at the moment, Win 7 PC. Windows 8.1 is going to be supported for another three years after Win 7 passes quietly away in January (talk about Gabriel García Marquez’s story of “A Death Foretold”!) Maybe now is time to bring this up again:

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