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HOW TO INSTALL DUAL BOOT 10/7 SYSTEM ON NVMe DRIVE WITH 10 FIRST?
HOW TO INSTALL DUAL BOOT 10/7 SYSTEM ON NVMe DRIVE WITH 10 FIRST?
hello everyone :) as much as things have changed in the past 10 years my love of puters hasnt...
since my BIG system has been packed away im doing jobs for other people & here's my first big challenge.
they have an NVMe SSD drive with windows 10 version 2004 on it already... ive partitioned the drive to get it ready for a windows 7 install for a dual boot...the problem is after the 7 installer loads the temp files, the mouse & keyboard stop working at the SET UP NEXT window...ive contacted samsung to find out there was a driver problem with windows 7 & NVMe drives which ive already installed what i thought was the hot fix for ...but now it still happens so ive found a few more options but im not sure which option i should go with since it can very quickly turn into a bottomless pit LOL..
CAN ANYONE PLEASE TELL ME THE FASTEST & EASIEST OPTION I HAVE?
im trying to avoid installing on other drives & cloning partitions...BLA BLA BLA since acronis can only clone entire drives ^ NOT separate partitions...if i can install onto a regular HD & then update that version of 7 to work on an SSD drive maybe i can find a program that can clone partitions?
id like to give an update for the situation so far as ive spent many hours on this & its still not solved but maybe im getting closer...
after i tried to follow these steps after painstakingly trying to update the bootable 7 files with the NVMe & USB drivers, when i rebooted into win 7 the colored lights swirled around while it was loading the OS but then it just again rebooted....i then rebooted back into win 10 to check things & saw the install filled up the drive with 17 GB of data in the typical directories but when i went into \Windows\System32\drivers i couldnt find the NMVe drivers i thought were supposed to be there...
another option i tried was running the SETUP exec from the usb flash drive i made...at frirst it froze during the install screen so i downloaded & installed these samsung drivers i got from their website by running it from inside win 10...even tho i figured it wouldnt help much, the next time i tried to run the setup exec from the flash drive, it actually allowed me to choose the correct partition & start the install...BUT after it had copied all the files it started to expand them & about 6% into the second stage i got another error that said windows couldnt install "a driver" never saying exactly which one, i was again set back....it seems to be very difficult to do this when it should have been so easy...
CAN ANYONE HELP?
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