dual boot w7 (2 separate drives)

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pslarkin

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Hi: what are the steps to allow user to choose which drive to boot on startup, w7pro64? The system drive now, is too small, I want everything running as smoothly on the new bigger system drive before I completely stop the old drive from being the main. So the dual boot is a must. Thank you.
 
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J-Mello

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Enter your BIOS menu on start up to change which drive to boot from

*EDIT* Run the WIN7 install, Is there an option to install Windows 7 directly on your other drive under the custom installation ? *


If not have some notes here that I had written down on Dual booting.

Disk Management Tool> Right click Unallocated disk space> Select "New Simple Volume" > Complete setup wizard ( Create the space on the drive that you are intending to use)

Next do a quick format using the NTFS file system and complete.

Boot the computer using the windows 7 install disk and complete the wizard using " Custom ( Advanced ) " Install type.
Select the newly created partition and complete installation.

Windows 7 will auto configure the Bootloader which will now present you with a menu option during boot up.

I hope that helps.



 
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