Dual booting W10 and W7 with W10 installed on M.2

seanwp35 · Jun 7, 2018

Hi I have a WD 120Gb M.2 drive and 2 1Tb HDDs installed on my system. One of the HDD is used for Steam Games the second I want to dual boot with Windows 7 Professional 64bit. The M.2 drive has W10 Pro installed.

Technically I want to end up with M.2 W10, 1Tb HDD W7 dual boot and 1Tb HDD Steam Games.

Is this possible and if so how to go about?

Im new here so any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Sean

The Paladin · Jun 7, 2018

why dont you just get virtualbox from oracle and run windows 7 as a virtual desktop, and not have to deal with all the issues a dual Windows system
means..

btw topic been covered tons of times on here... a quick search shows... http://www.tomshardware.com/s/win+10+win+7+dual+boot/

seanwp35 · Jun 7, 2018

I have games that wont run in Virtual Box and W10 thanks for the heads up

jacobweaver800 · Jun 7, 2018

seanwp35 :

What exactly do you need Windows 7 for? Like mentioned above I would run a virtual machine using Windows 7 instead, it's like trying to use a CPU that isn't technically supported by a motherboard, it may work but you'll have a lot of issues.

The Paladin · Jun 7, 2018

what games do not run under windows 10 ? but run in windows 7.. now I am curious

seanwp35 · Jun 7, 2018

basically for old games eg call of duty 2 united offensive command and conquer ultimate collection. Basically games that wont run in W10 and will have problems with graphics in virtualbox. I understand there will be issues but just wanted to know if its possible my rig is quite new bought a few days ago and wanting to give dual booting a try.

Im new to virtualbox is there a guide on how to setup W7 in virtual box?

Cheers for your quick reply

seanwp35 · Jun 7, 2018

The Paladin :

i have the command and conquer ultimate collection age of empires up to no 3 and the call of duty collection up to black ops which im downloading off steam just wanted to know whether they wil work in 10 ive had problems with command and conquer red alert crashing upon start up

The Paladin · Jun 7, 2018

COD World at wars and blacktops from Steam run just fine under Windows 10, I have both
as for Command and conquer, I am not sure, but its on a web site now, where I have been playing it.

seanwp35 · Jun 7, 2018

The Paladin :

Thanks just wanted to check whether the collection that im getting about $940 for all the cod games work on w10 how about virtual for the old school games?

The Paladin · Jun 7, 2018

your paying 940$ for cod collection... seriously ?

I dont know about "old school games" as my old school games go back to the era of frogger

seanwp35 · Jun 7, 2018

jacobweaver800 :

The Paladin :

nah just a thought i mean like games that run on 98 and xp eg diablo 1 and 2 original cod etc... retro gaming

just wanted to see if i could dual boot

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