Can i have 2 Windows 7's?

Bare Foot Kid said:

Hello Old, welcome to Seven Forums!



Only one install can be activated at a time with one key, you cannot have 2 on the same key.

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Old said:

Hello Bare foot Kid, thanks for having me.

I really liked XP (LOOOOOve it) dual boot triple NO wories same licence.

NOT rich to buy licences for same PC.

A lot of things have been changed with Windows 7 and it's no longer possible to have 2 different installs on the same key.

You can dual boot Windows 7 and XP though, have a look at the link below.

Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP

You can install it as many times as you like but only 1 will activate on 1 key.

Yes, 1 activation per key. What I cannot understand is why somebody would want to have 2 copies of Windows 7 on the same machine??? If it's mainly as a backup in case the original crashes...why not use imaging instead and have a good copy of your original.

pparks1 said:

Yes, 1 activation per key. What I cannot understand is why somebody would want to have 2 copies of Windows 7 on the same machine??? If it's mainly as a backup in case the original crashes...why not use imaging instead and have a good copy of your original.

Sometimes it's nice to have another copy to boot into, for whatever reasons.

When I had a serious problem with my graphics card drivers, I was very grateful for my Vista installation. I booted it up, and posted here in this thread: trouble installing drivers

A system image restore would have been inconvenient and certainly not appropriate for the situation.

Jonathan_King said:

Sometimes it's nice to have another copy to boot into, for whatever reasons.

Yes, that's why I like having a couple of machines around the house which can all access the Internet.

I'm not against a dual boot...but it seems like it would be more advantageous to have 2 different operating systems...not 2 of the same thing.

Jonathan_King said:

A system image restore would have been inconvenient and certainly not appropriate for the situation.

I'm not sure about that. My images take about 10 minutes or less to restore and if you made an image the day before or very recently...you wouldn't really lose much of anything. Especially in my case, where I have a separate data partition.