I have windows home premium 64 bit on a 1 TB Disk and have another 1Tb disk in the PC. Outside on the tower i have 500GB disk which sits on top of the tower and is sata connected. Here is an image of the tower and you can see where it sits . My question is can i install windows 7 32 bit on the 500GB and have a dual boot. Would i need some system reserved space and would this be created with the install?
EDIT I see it does. Just to be sure can anyone see any difficulty with this. I cannot harm my original win 7 64 on C anyway?
Hi,
As long as these installs are not using the same activation key you can dual boot as many as you want too.
If you use the same activation key you're committing copy writes violations and M$ might deactivate all the installs and you'll have to call them to straighten out the mess you created using the same activation key for 2-3.. versions of windows no matter if it 64 bit or 32 bit
1 key = 1 install.
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Depends the safest way to install is removing all other drives while installing the other os
That way it has it's own boot manager or 100mb system reserved partition
Then you can use the F8 key to get to the boot options on startup and select the drive you want to boot too.
So no you don't have to enter the bios at all and change anything F8 or F12 depends on what the startup flash screen says for boot options is.
My Computer
Computer type
PC/Desktop
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Custom assembled by me :}
OS
Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
CPU
i7-5930K 2nd i9-9940x both water blocked VRM's too
2nd ASUS X299 Apex/Intel i9-9940x with Custom water loop/7H-Prem-x64/Corsair 450D case/Ram Trident-z 3600C16 4x8gb / Samsung970Evo plus 500gb SSD/Dual ssd EZ swap evo/PSU EVGA SuperNova 1200w-P2 80+Platinum/GPU Titan Xp /8-ML-140 on push-pull on 2-280GTX rads
Depends the safest way to install is removing all other drives while installing the other os
That way it has it's own boot manager or 100mb system reserved partition
