I hated 8.1 after I installed it a year ago. Now want to dual boot win 7 & 10 - How can I safely uninstall 8.1?
And then can I do a dual boot - 7 & 10, getting the win 10 download via the update?
You could remove the partition for Win 8.1, then you should just have Win 7. Believe the letter of the law (EULA) you can't use Win 7 and 10 on the same license, there's been much discussion on that since physically a dual boot wouldn't allow you to run both at the same time. IMO MS never intended W10 upgrade to be a "two for one", it's one or the other. When you change to W10 your license is then associated with that OS.
See these FAQ's, https://www.tenforums.com/general-dis...e-upgrade.html
UPGRADE your windows 8.1 installation to windows 10
Thus keeping the dual boot = windows 7 and now windows 10
Better off upgrading using the ISO method..
download and create windows 10 setup media
> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/softw...load/windows10
run setup.exe from within windows 8.1 environment to start upgrade process
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