2 windows 8 in one laptop

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Adela Kriland

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Hi I want to have a windows 8 64 bit and a 32 bit in the same laptop for testing purposes. Or a win 8.1 and a win 8.1 pro.
But I have not find how. Can anyone help.
Thanks
 
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There is no change between win7 and win8. Just delete the partition first, because you need the raw space. Otherwise describe the error you get / problem you have.
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Adela Kriland

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It does not allow me to do this. I have win 8.1 64 installed, I have a second partition on the disk, free space. I have done this in Win7, win xp but I can not manage in Win 8 or 8.1 seams that they do not allow it.

THanks jinsky what you describe has worked in the past but not with win8 :-(

Adela
 
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There is no change between win7 and win8. Just delete the partition first, because you need the raw space. Otherwise describe the error you get / problem you have.
 
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Adela Kriland

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Hi, I have deleted the partition so is raw, I have gone in to the bios and delete the secure booting so it does not check. And when I start the computer with the DVD with windows 8.1 32 bits it just ignore it and starts the computer. If I start with the DVD 8.1 64 then it gets it and ask me for the license number. Any other idea. thanks for your help.
 
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Adela Kriland

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I will check in a new machine that is not my laptop and let you know. Is a iso DVD. Will check. thanks

 
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Adela Kriland

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Hi, I have tested now, and I can tell you that the DVD is perfectly bootable. So there is something in the laptop that has the win 8 installed in the HD, I am thinking to make a clone of the HD in the machine, install in the cloned HD and clone back. I will try. Sorry for the delay, it was holiday here and had no access to a clean machine.
 
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ftball

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Double check BIOS boot priority.
After you manage to install both operating systems, I highly doubt they will let you choose which one to boot. If you get no choice to boot from, then I suggest installing GRUB to manage boot stuff.
I also doubt if cloning stuff you mentioned would work for you. Yes, machine should boot that way, but if you want to test them, then you need them in perfect working order, which you would not get if during installation and after hardware would be different.
 
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Adela Kriland

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What do you suggest. I have even forced boot from bios and it does not allow me. I think is the ASUS laptop bios N56V with WIN8. I will test GRUB, to see how it works.

If anyone has a better solution let me know.

 
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