Question Installing Windows 10 From a partition (same hard drive)

[quakeworld]

hey guys. i'm about to install windows 10 from Win 7. i don't have a dvd or usb stick at the moment. just the installation media (setup.exe files) and one HDD partitioned into 2 (C and E - windows 7 installed on C).

if i put the win10 setup files on E (running setup.exe from there) can i format C and install windows 10 on it ? basically, install windows 10 from E partition to C.

i searched the net and came across a tutorial which did just that but it set E as the boot drive first. can i skip this step and just straight up run the setup.exe from E without having to set it up as bootable first?

thanks in advance.

 

[TheELF]

No you cant destroy windows files from a windows session that you are running at that moment.
You should be doing an update/upgrade of windows 7 to windows 10 since you don't want to keep windows 7 anyway.
Otherwise you can install windows 10 directly to E: without doing anything else.

 

[Drassx]

I mean in theory, maybe, but why, at that point why not just run to the store buy a $5 flash drive and save yourself the headache, some times brain power is better spent else where.

 

[hayhayhayday]

Prob better to do upgrade. If no flash drive can use external hdd if you have one as flash drive?

 

[quakeworld]

thanks for the replies. went out and bought a flash drive this weekend.. at the time of posting of my original question, i was too lazy to go out and buy a flash drive so i thought i could get away with installing 10 from a partition.