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Best approach to configuring windows 7/10 pro with single license?
I have 2 computers with windows 7 pro 64 bit at my house.
The living room computer is the family computer which has windows 7 pro 64 bit on one hard drive.
I have in my own room, windows 8.1 Enterprise 64 bit, which has 2 partitions, with windows 7 Pro on the remaining partition.
Both Windows 7 Pro pc's have reserved their copy of windows.
My question is, what is the best way to keep windows 7 pro and still have the windows 10 pro upgrade so both computers can utilize either windows 7 pro/10 pro under the same license?
I was thinking of on my living room pc, making a windows 7 backup, then through updates let that computer upgrade to 10 pro, then create a vm and restore my windows 7 pro on that. or just buy a seperate hard drive and restore it to that so in essence that be dual booted, with seperate drives.(not interested in vhds)
on my windows 8.1 enterprise, i realize i cannot upgrade to 10. i have windows 7 pro dual booted on a the same hard drive as my windows 8.1 enterprise. so i was thinking of making a backup of both OS, then either buy another hard drive and install windows 7 pro to the hard drive let it up date and then vm windows 7 pro on that copy of 10 on that new drive and just restore windows 8.1 enterprise to the original entirety of the hard drive.
i hope explained this well enough!
the point of all this is i still want to be able to retain on both computers the ability to have windows 7 pro and 10 pro using each computers single license for 7.