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Dual boot of a copy of Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
Grateful your advice as I am a newbie!
This is what I want to do in order to provide a backup copy of my Windows 7 volume C: on my single hard disc Asus K53U laptop.
Then, if I run into trouble with my C: volume, I will be able to boot into my backup D: volume.
1. Clone my primary and active volume C: to a new volume D: as a backup copy. (My data is on G:)
2. Make D: a primary volume.
3. Create a second BCD on D: using Visual BCDedit.
4. Make D: Active.
I have implemented steps 1, 2 and 3 - but not step 4.
Steps 1, 2 and 3 have caused my BIOS to ask at every boot whether I want to boot into C: or D: (That is in accordance with my intentions.) Without marking D: as Active, though, booting into D: will not be possible.
However, I am aware that you "cannot" have two active volumes on the same physical disc because it would(?)/might(?) make my laptop unbootable - but why can I not have two active volumes on the same physical disc? Is there a workaround?
If not, would my proposed set-up work satisfactorily with an external USB hard disc?
Thank you!