Dual booting Win 7 Home Premium x64 & Server 2008 R2 in 2 partitions.


  1. muralikb88
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    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
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    Dual booting Win 7 Home Premium x64 & Server 2008 R2 in 2 partitions.


    Hi All,
    I am planning to format my disk and want to install windows 7 and windows server 2008 in two separate partitions. Please guide me on how to install the same. Which OS to install first? How many partitions to create.? I have 1 TB hard disk. So how much space to be allocated to each partitions since I am planning to create 3 or 4 partitions(say C,D,E,F) ?

    My System details:

    Processor 1 ID = 0
    Number of cores 2 (max 8)
    Number of threads 4 (max 16)
    Name Intel Core i5 3210M
    Codename Ivy Bridge
    Specification Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3210M CPU @ 2.50GHz

    Chipset
    Northbridge Intel Ivy Bridge rev. 09
    Southbridge Intel HM77 rev. 04
    Memory Type DDR3
    Memory Size 6 GBytes
    Channels Dual
    Memory Frequency 798.7 MHz (1:6)

    DMI System Information
    manufacturer Dell Inc.
    product Inspiron 7520

    DMI Processor
    manufacturer Intel(R) Corporation
    model Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3210M CPU @ 2.50GHz
    clock speed 2500.0 MHz
    FSB speed 100.0 MHz
    multiplier 25.0x

    Display adapter 0
    Name : Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000
    Dedicated Graphics : AMD Radeon 7730M (2GB)

    Software
    Windows Version Microsoft Windows 7 (6.1) Home Premium Edition 64-bit Service Pack 1 (Build 7601)
    DirectX Version 11.0

    Please guide me whether my system requirements support this ? If not let me know alternate solutions.

    Thanks in advance.
    Muralikrishna
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  3. AddRAM
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    Windows 10 Pro x64
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    Why do you want Server 2008, you`ll never use it, do you have a way to activate it ?

    Just split the drive in half, a 1 TB drive is too small for 4 partitions, but you could make 3, a pair of 300 GB and the rest for storage.

    Your specs are fine.
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  4. muralikb88
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    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
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    Which OS to install first? Win 7 or Win Server 2008 ? any order? I am installing it for my bro coz he needs it for some project related tasks.
    Thanks for the reply.
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  6. AddRAM
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    I would always put Windows 7 1st.

    If it`s just for a project then make the partition for Server 2008 small, only 100 GB.
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