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- As Samuria and I wrote, all needed drivers for installation should be on the Win 7 installation disk. But there will be some specific drivers, like LAN, sound etc drivers that you will need to install after the Windows installation. Don't worry, that isn't critical and it's easy to get installed.
- You didn't mention how much memory you have, but if it's less than 4G, install win 7 32. It will run better.
- Once you have your Win 7 running, with all drivers set, Updates installed, Windows activated, you have done the basic. If you going to have common programs (like Firefox) on both partitions, also install those programs.
- As IE is part of the OS, I strongly suggest you install IE 11 and all security updates related.
- To create a new partition, you will have to make some space for it. So you will have to shrink the existing partition with Windows Disk manager (C:\Windows\System32\diskmgmt.msc) or with Best Free Partition Manager for Windows | MiniTool Partition Free
- My suggestion is to make both Win 7 partition 85G. Create another partition with the remaining space to store data. Then you can access the data from both Win 7 installations.
- Once you created both 85G partitions, clone the fist Win 7 partition to the second partition. MiniTool Partition Free has a copy partition wizard.
You will have same installation on both partitions but you will only be able to boot the fist one. Use EasyBCD (EasyBCD 2.3 Download - TechSpot) to make it dual boot.
It's very important that, when you begin Win 7 installation, you disconnect ALL other disks from MB.
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