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@GoKay,
Thanks for the reply and sorry for the very late reply here. I was hoping that greg would be around but I saw.... tsk..
Anyway please do read replies below.
-- OK thanks. I thought I'd just do a start-up repair or so...1- No, you can't boot them independently because they are on the same physical hard disk. If they were different hard disks, you could select the one to boot from during POST (Power On Self Test), with the quick boot menu of your BIOS.
2- Same as (1).
-- Okay thanks.3- If you have boot menu with both Win8.1 and Win7 and can select fine at the moment, you can select which one is the default, I don't have EasyBCD installed though, but you can manage it with msconfig. You can also specify how long it waits for an input until it auto-selects the default. For example, I have Win7 default with another Win10 install, and only waits 5 seconds. It will be slower than a single OS if you are booting to the other OS than the default always as it will have to re-start.
You don't need EasyBCD installed anywhere, you won't need it after you set the boot menu. Can be un-installed later. If you can boot to Win7, you definitely don't need it on Win8.1.
-- Now that's another question that I forgot to post. I was having issues with the creation of the USB restore drive. That wasthe reason I used the usb uefi install usb.4- I was once told you need to somehow install Recovery Environment while installing the OS, however, you can just use a spare USB flash drive to make the repair disk. You can even get a large USB stick and put both recovery disks on a single one with a multiboot program like Easy2Boot.
-- I do am relying on system image backup with Acronis True Image / Macrium Workstation in a usb multiboot created with YUMI. I was just trying to test System Restore as this was a first time Windows 8.1 usage in this particular desktop. The laptop I use at the office --well seldom because the top programs I use AutoCAD/Statistical software's (as mentioned previously in other post's) are not installed on it as the tech's encountered issues with it. So it's just MS Office and some unneeded stuff there.5- Hmm, not sure about this one, you shouldn't have issues though. And if you do, repair disk is good enough for fixing. Also, image your hard disks so you can just recall in a matter of minutes instead.
6- No idea what this is. Properly imaging your OS partitions negates the use of System Restore.
When I started this endeavor this week I have made 4 image backups so I will not re-install and re-install. That provd to be very useful because I just recovered from a raw install.
-- Thanks I will check it out and print it.7- This is the tutorial for running sfc in command line at boot - SFC /SCANNOW : Run in Command Prompt at Boot
Will be back here for follow-up.