![]() How to Dual Boot Windows 8 and Windows 7. Want to test the wild new waters of Windows 8 but don't want to lose your current Windows setup? You can do this with the Windows 8 installer, which can create a multi- boot setup. I've been running one of my test PCs at PCMag this way for several months, and the clear new- style (we can't use the term Metro anymore) multiboot menu dutifully appears whenever I restart the system. Setting up such a system isn't hard at all, as long as you prepare for this kind of installation. There are any number of third- party multi- boot tools, such as the excellent Easy. BCD, which may work with those, but we'll stick to the built- in way of creating multi- boot with Windows 8. ![]() Charles Says: March 5th, 2015 at 12:50 pm. No matter what i do, windows 10 will not install from boot from usb. I am on surface pro 2, i have made a partition of 48gb. Install Windows 10 Alongside Windows 7 or 8. Go through the Windows 10 installation process normally. Select your language and keyboard layout and then click. The Windows 7 beta has been released for quite a while now. If you want to follow the crowd and test it in your system, but do not want to burn into a DVD, here is. Why disable Introduction. Want to take Windows 10 out for a test drive but still keep your existing installation of Windows 7 or 8.1 alive and well? You can do just that by. You never know what will happen when installing a pre- release OS. At the very least back up all your photos, videos, and documents. A complete image backup of your hard disk is preferable, however. Windows 7 has a built- in backup feature to secure your data files, but for image backup, you'll need third- party software such as Shadow. Protect Desktop, our Editors' Choice. ![]() Easy BCD edit; structured view of complete BCD; create and edit every BCD option. Visual BCD Editor is an advanced graphical user interface (GUI) version of Windows.To do this, type . Click on that to open the Disk Management utility. You'll probably have two partitions. Right- click on the largest one, and choose Shrink Volume from the context menu. Enter a size above 1. GB for the 3. 2- bit version of Windows 8 and over 2. ![]() GB for the 6. 4- bit flavor, and then hit the Shrink button. This will create an Unallocated section equal to the size you chose in the chart at the bottom of the window. Leave it be for now, we'll let the Windows 8 installer take over from here. ![]() ![]() Dual Boot Windows 7 and Windows XP: 4 Stepsstep. The first thing we need to do is create a new partition on the Windows 7 machine. Luckily we can do it without any 3rd party software. Right- click on the drive and select Shrink Volume. You’re shown the total size of the disk and the amount of size that is available to shrink. In this example we’re freeing up 4. GB of space. Right- click that and select New Simple Volume. When you get to the Format Partition section, NTFS is selected by default as the file system and you can leave that as is. You might want to rename the Volume label something else like “XP Partition” so it’s easier to identify when installing. XP. Also you’ll probably want to make sure to check Perform a Quick Format. After the format is complete you will see the new volume as a healthy partition listed.
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