Windows 7 to windows 8---help?

[forrest faszer]

Ok so I have windows 7 64 bit installed on my computer. It is extremely slow and I just don't want to deal with it. I have a constant dll.exe host surrogate memory leak. Start ups take forever.... Etc... And yes I HAVE TRIED EVERY FORUM and no solutions work for the memory leak. I am going to buy a system builder oem 64 bit version of windows 8 along with an ssd. I was wondering if I just took my current os drive out and put in the ssd and booted from the oem disk... If that would work. Or if I would just end up with a metal brick. And would my old os drive be restorable? Thanks

 

[USAFRet]

For your Windows 7 - a reinstall would probably work

For Win 8 and SSD - Yes, what you said will work, barring any hardware faults. Take the old drive out, put the SSD in...boot from the Win 8 install disk and install.

 

[bryonhowley]

That should work just fine. And after the Windows 8 install you can install Windows 8.1 from the Metro Store for free. I know some have had problems with Windows 8.1 but I have updated to it on all three of my rigs with no problems at all. What I did was get Windows 8 up to 8.1 as soon as you can before you start loading the system down with a butch of other apps and such so it has as much of a clean upgrade as possible. Your old Windows 7 drive can be put back in as a data drive so you can retrieve what ever you may need to get off of it. Then you could format it and us it as a data drive if you want. Just make sure that the new SSD is set as the Primary boot drive in the BIOS.