Windows 7 Downloads

[novenary]

Is it true that Windows 10 can destroy partitioned hard drives? Someone on Facebook claims this happened to him.

I upgraded to windows 10 on my dual boot setup and didn't have any issue with it, the only thing it will change on UEFI systems is that it sets itself as the default OS so I had to go into the bios settings to set my boot menu as default again. I suspect that on legacy bios systems it will override the bootloader though which means that you need to reinstall grub.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

From what I could read elsewhere, it appears that what I mentionned is more at risk of happening if you don't know what you are doing when trying to set your computer to be able to dual-boot. Otherwise, you should be fine.

[brentmaas]

@DarkestEx Is the site you supplied legitimate for other downloads as well? Wanna screw around a little with old versions of windows.

[DarkestEx]

@DarkestEx Is the site you supplied legitimate for other downloads as well? Wanna screw around a little with old versions of windows.

Sure, the site is alright.

[brentmaas]

Sure, the site is alright.

Nice, thank you

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Yeah it's usually good to check if websites are safe and legit prior posting links to them. I remember in the past when I downloaded some software that allowed me to have animated Windows 7 wallpapers, but I went on the wrong site and ended up with a version bundled with malware and ads.

Also, make sure to not check those pesky toolbars when installing stuff.

And of course, if you find another website as alternative, make sure that it doesn't contain keygens or pirated copies of softwares that you can run at will with no serial before linking to it (often, those aren't that safe either anyway)

[brentmaas]

The download wasn't really that legit, because it was something.sfc.exe, not anything I expected like a .iso

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Ah right. Be careful guys >.<


ALso, in the past, I ran into many instances where a so-called safe/legit download was marked as clean by at least 9 people, who received 10-20 upvotes, yet, I still got virus warnings and sometimes the virus warning came up 1-2 years after installing.

I think that some trolls just upvotes posts from lying people and downvotes those that says the truth just to mislead people into downloading garbage.

[DarkestEx]

Ah right. Be careful guys >.<


ALso, in the past, I ran into many instances where a so-called safe/legit download was marked as clean by at least 9 people, who received 10-20 upvotes, yet, I still got virus warnings and sometimes the virus warning came up 1-2 years after installing.

I think that some trolls just upvotes posts from lying people and downvotes those that says the truth just to mislead people into downloading garbage.

Well I can't promise for a 100% that this is legit, though I have been installing this image in my own computers and I think they just worked fine. Also I know the site already and I think its legit.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

How would he mount the file he mentioned, though?

[DarkestEx]

How would he mount the file he mentioned, though?

Well if he gives me a link i could look into it

[brentmaas]

Well if he gives me a link i could look into it

http://winfuture.de/downloadvorschalt,69.html

[p4nix]

I'm not sure about that, but 'Bootdisketten' translates to floppy disk. I'm not so familiar with that stuff, but I don't think that's what you want.

[DarkestEx]

Well if he gives me a link i could look into it

http://winfuture.de/downloadvorschalt,69.html

Yea old boot disks almost always come in exe files.
You need to either unzip it using 7zip or open them.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

I'm not sure about that, but 'Bootdisketten' translates to floppy disk. I'm not so familiar with that stuff, but I don't think that's what you want.

Imagine if copies of Windows 7, 8 and 10 came on floppy disks...