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Cloning win7 to new sdd for dual boot
Hello.
First, thanks to this forum, I have solved many problems over the years on my own. I'm a long time visitor but at my wits end so I decided to join in the hopes of getting my computer running the way I like it.
I was running WIN7 + WIN7 and XP as a multi boot system and everything worked great except now I'd like to migrate away from XP and have only win7.
I have a 500GB SDD which I would like to multi boot with 4 Win7 installations. Trouble is, I hope to do this by cloning my existing WIN7 partition 4 times instead of installing fresh win7 each time.
1) How many OS's (win 7 ) can I setup on a single drive ? Some say you can only have 4 primary partitions. If the boot partition eats up one of those, I'm left with 3.
2) What's the best way to accomplish my goal without installing fresh windows?
I almost got everything setup the way I like it until I cloned to the 4th partition. After that, I could only boot into the first win7 even after trying a dozen different suggestions to fix mbr and bcd. I've since wiped the 500GB drive clean and am ready to start all over.
Thanks in advance for your suggestions