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Current setup is A dual bootable system with Windows 7 on a SSD with Win XP on secondary 500gb WD drive ( that has 300GB of backup files) I also have all my games on 3rd 500gb WD drive (currently 150GB used). Now what I am intending and would like some input on is this: I am Installing windows 10 and want to have a tri-bootable system but I am currently unsure if I want my SSD to host Win 7 or 10. My main usage will be through Windows 7 as most of my gaming and work related programs currently are not fully compatible with Windows 10 but I do not want to have to clone and swap drives at a later date when Windows 10 is more well supported by my job. Any ideas and advice would be appreciated.
 
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Sorry I honestly can't answer that. I have never had your exact circumstance.
I have dual booted with both W7 and W10 as I was tentative to begin with.
I have no problems at all with W10. and multitask quite heavily at times. My system is 64bit and W10 has more capability than W7. Loads faster and once you learn the new interface, its great actually. I don't have much trust in MS and questioned their motive for free upgrade. But i'm happy up to now.

At least get the ISO file and burn it to a disk or load to a USB. you can decide later, just get the ISO soon.
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Well I would upgrade to W10 by 29th July when the free upgrade finishes.
Best way to install W10 is get the Media Creation Tool and download the ISO file.
Booting from the SSD is faster as you know and I upgraded long ago. Drivers and issues with W10 have mostly been fixed.
Backup your important files from XP and get rid of it. Its no longer supported anyways.
You can also run your old games and programs from W7 in compatibility mode in W10.

Hope this helps.
 
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matrixman78

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The reason I keep XP is backwards compatibility. I have children (as well as my inner child) who love the days of dos and quite frankly Windows 7 and up are not compatible with 3/4 of older dos programs or games. (In my honest opinion no amount of 3rd party software such as DosBox or the like can recreate the true environment of dos through emulation.) This drive is accessed via a terminal in another room.
Now since I have no experience with Windows 10 (8.1 is all my friends have used) I am a bit tentative at any "compatibility mode" Windows 10 would have given all my past bad experiences with Windows and their previous compatibility glitches. How stable is it truly? Can it run 4-5 programs simultaneously in compatibility mode without resource hogging or spontaneous crashing or even worse full shutdown and erasure of saved files? I ask because it is very important that the programs I run not crash since each one deals with private and often live data.
 
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MeanMachine41

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Sorry I honestly can't answer that. I have never had your exact circumstance.
I have dual booted with both W7 and W10 as I was tentative to begin with.
I have no problems at all with W10. and multitask quite heavily at times. My system is 64bit and W10 has more capability than W7. Loads faster and once you learn the new interface, its great actually. I don't have much trust in MS and questioned their motive for free upgrade. But i'm happy up to now.

At least get the ISO file and burn it to a disk or load to a USB. you can decide later, just get the ISO soon.
 
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