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Girish Iyer

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Can I partition a 120/240 GB SSD to install and dual boot Windows 7 and 10? Would a 120 GB SSD enough for this or would 240 GB be preferable for adding other files later? Thanks for your comments in advance.
 
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It depends... Do you have a secondary hard drive installed. If so, then YES you could easily do it. I've never used more than 60GB on my SSD.. and it's fully loaded.

There are tricks you can try.
For example...
I've done the dual booting thingy many times in the past and what I do is.. I RELOCATED key folders from the O/S of the C Drive: Documents, Music, Videos, Pictures, Saved Games & Downloads... to another drive. NEXT... I installed a second O/S and relocated those SAME EXACT folders to the same location as the other O/S so they use the same folders. That cuts down on space used (no duplicates) and if I booted into the other O/S, any changes I made from the the other O/S stays constant...

The only problem with that...
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A 120GB is too small for 2 Windows OS's.
A 250GB is enough for the OS's, but not much else.

~100GB for each OS, leaving enough free space for the SSD TRIM to do its thing.

Yes, I've run WIN 7 + 10, or 8.1 + 10, on a 250GB drive.
 
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SBMfromLA

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It depends... Do you have a secondary hard drive installed. If so, then YES you could easily do it. I've never used more than 60GB on my SSD.. and it's fully loaded.

There are tricks you can try.
For example...
I've done the dual booting thingy many times in the past and what I do is.. I RELOCATED key folders from the O/S of the C Drive: Documents, Music, Videos, Pictures, Saved Games & Downloads... to another drive. NEXT... I installed a second O/S and relocated those SAME EXACT folders to the same location as the other O/S so they use the same folders. That cuts down on space used (no duplicates) and if I booted into the other O/S, any changes I made from the the other O/S stays constant...

The only problem with that approach, if you were to use a smaller SSD, would be the Windows 10 Apps. From what I can tell, there currently isn't a way to select the download location for the Windows Store.. so everything will download and install to the SSD..

So, YES you can use a smaller SSD without any problems... but if you plan on using the Windows Store to download apps then you should consider a larger SSD.
 
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Elizabeth Anderson

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You should just invest in a good antivirus program and then try the dual booting.
You need to reserve at least 30gig, preferably 50-60 for a Win 7 install. You should not have any problems doing this with your SSD, if this is what you want to do.
 
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