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my laptop has 2 hard drives a c drive and a d drive. i want to install a win 7 professional 32 bit on c drive and win 7 home premium 64 bit on d drive. is it possible?
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It would be be "better" to install them on seperate drives, but what you would do when installing the first OS is format the "C:" drive doing a Custom Install, and then you would partition it before/during the install process at this time as well, assigning half the space of the drive to 32-bit windows and when you get to installing the 64bit version assigning it the other half.

And Drive letters only exist inside of windows, and windows will ALWAYS assign C: to the drive the OS is installed on, so when they are both on the same hard drive, BOTH will say they are installed on the C: drive, but they will be able to see the other partition (other windows) and will assign it a different drive letter.
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can u tell me how to do it ?and how can i switch btw the 2 os after installing 2 os on same laptop. i want such an arrangement for my project.or should i install both os on c drive after partitioning c drive?
 
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1. Install either version of windows first.
2. Put in the DVD for the other version of windows you want and do a manual boot from the DVD drive (might have to enter the bios to do this and tell it to boot from the DVD drive first)
3. Choose Custom Install when installing the other version of windows and make sure to choose the other HDD.
4. You should now have two versions of windows installed and when booting it will ask you which one you want to boot into.
 
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It would be be "better" to install them on seperate drives, but what you would do when installing the first OS is format the "C:" drive doing a Custom Install, and then you would partition it before/during the install process at this time as well, assigning half the space of the drive to 32-bit windows and when you get to installing the 64bit version assigning it the other half.

And Drive letters only exist inside of windows, and windows will ALWAYS assign C: to the drive the OS is installed on, so when they are both on the same hard drive, BOTH will say they are installed on the C: drive, but they will be able to see the other partition (other windows) and will assign it a different drive letter.
 
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Right. I have a laptop with one HDD. Partitioned almost in half.
One partition is Win 7, the other is Win 8.1 Pro.

Whichever OS/partition I boot into...it sees itself as the C drive, and the other as the D drive.

But again....why 2 versions of Windows 7?
 
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i hav a college project to run on my laptop which works only on mssql 2005.mssql does not work properly on win 7 64 bit home premium so i want to try win 7 professional 32 bit and see whether mssql works(by meeting all software and compatibility requirements) after getting this os installed.
 
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Are you talking about dual boot?
 
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