In this challenge lab, you start from a Windows 7 computer and install Windows 1

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In this challenge lab, you start from a Windows 7 computer and install Windows 10 while maintaining your Windows 7 installation. Answer the following questions in preparation for this installation:

Discussion Questions

a. What hardware considerations must you take into account before performing the installation? Think about CPU requirements, disk requirements, and memory requirements, plus anything else you can think of.

b. What will you need to have on hand before starting the installation?

c. What tasks should you perform before beginning the installation?

d. What are some of the critical choices you must make during the installation from the time you power on your Windows 7 computer to the time that file copying begins?

Explanation / Answer

Answer:

a). For the Pro version of the software, you'll need to factor in a few technical requirements.

Windows 10 Pro requires a 1 GHz processor or faster, 800x600 screen resolution, up to 20GB of hard disk space, and - depending on whether you go for 32-bit or 64-bit version - between 1GB and 2GB of RAM.

b). Window 10 install media ready: You should have a full version copy of Windows 10. If you don't, you will need to purchase a full version license.

Prepare the install media : Depending on the type of computer you have, an optical drive might not be available, which means, you will need to prepare a bootable copy using a USB thumb drive.

c). Important Drivers you should download and save in advance: Important drivers include: Chipset, Video, Audio and Network (Ethernet/Wireless). For laptops, make sure you download the latest Touch Pad drivers.

- Disable Secure Boot.

- Prepare Partition where Windows 10.

- Backup your data in case any crash or just for safe side.

d) critical choices :

- once you partitioned your disk for installing window 10 then we are ready to start our installation connect your install media . Installation does not start automatically you need to double click on install media.

- You will get pop up – type of installation you want

- Select Custom(Advanced)-> then select partition which you created.

- After restart you just need to select window Setup.

- A boot entry will be added for the older version of Windows. You will notice an entry is also available for Windows 10.

That's it, when you ready to boot into your OS a choice, you can easily do so.

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