A fun post today, with Windows 11 looming, I built a machine from DOS 6.0 all the way to Win10 using only the upgrade path, no formatting of the drive.
It’s a real-time video so timings below if you want to flick through, or watch from the start if you suffer from insomnia
- MS-DOS – 1:08
- Windows 1.0 – 3:44
- Windows 2.0 – 6:48
- Windows 3.0 – 10:36
- Windows 3.1 – 14:09
- Windows 95 – 42:57
- Windows 98 – 1:13:15
- Windows ME – 1:14:55
- Windows NT 4.0 – 1:21:45
- Windows 2000 – 1:34:00 At this point I had to increase the HDD to 40Gb (diskpart.exe) and change to NTFS Filesystem
- Windows XP – 1:49:15
- Windows Vista – 2:09:39
- Windows 7 – 2:45:38
- Windows 8.0 – 3:17:02
- Windows 8.1 – 3:48:32
- Windows 10 – 4:18:27
Enjoy!
