Windows 7 vs Windows 10

lostsoul62

lostsoul62

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What I did is buy two 120 GB SSD Drive and put Windows 7 on one and Windows 10 on the other and they are on the same computer so now I can use which one I want.
 
No that would have been a dual boot and that causes problems. With 2 SSD 120 GB hard drive at $40 each it's safe and only take 1 minute to change.
 
What problems? The only thing I can remotely think of is the corruption of the Boot Manager and I've never had problems with that.
 
I've had about a dozen dual boots back in the olden days and yes I had the Boot Manager corruption. Everyone is different. There are some people that put data on the C Drive and in the 30 years I've had computers I have never done that. Some people don't have backups and I have a dozen of them. What works for one person another person won't like it. Doing what I'm doing feels good to me and just wanted to share.
 
lostsoul62 said:
No that would have been a dual boot and that causes problems. With 2 SSD 120 GB hard drive at $40 each it's safe and only take 1 minute to change.
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But that requires going into the bios or pressing a key for boot menu. If you had a dual boot, then you would get a menu on startup on which OS you wanted to boot to. And hopefully you aren't using the same license key for both installs because windows 7 will become not genuine.
 
lostsoul62 said:
I've had about a dozen dual boots back in the olden days and yes I had the Boot Manager corruption. Everyone is different. There are some people that put data on the C Drive and in the 30 years I've had computers I have never done that. Some people don't have backups and I have a dozen of them. What works for one person another person won't like it. Doing what I'm doing feels good to me and just wanted to share.
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My initial question is out of curiosity. Don't need to get defensive about it. Buying 2 separate drives for the sake of having an OS on each drive is rather rare, and I've only seen people do it with a Windows and Linux marriage. But not Windows and Windows setup.

As for data backup, there's a lot of ways of doing it. How do you do yours? Again... just out of curiosity and perhaps can provide ideas to improve data security.
 
lostsoul62 said:
There are some people that put data on the C Drive and in the 30 years I've had computers I have never done that.
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You could argue that the OS is data.

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Not with the new BOIS.
If you have Windows 7 and upgrade to Windows 10 from your Windows 7 you can have either one on the Internet but not both at the same time.
I agree that having 2 separate drive is rare for 2 OS's. There really isn't any wrong or right way but again it just makes me feel secure.
Of course Date is just put on a bunch of drives but the OS is Imaged and put on a bunch of drives.
Data security is easy. Put your data on no less than 2 separate drives. You can put your data on the cloud if you know what your doing and put one copy off site like give a hard drive with your data to a relative for safe keeping.
 
I've got a setup similar for data backup. I have a NAS in raid 1 and I use my old NAS box to rsync the new one, but only for specific folders that are deemed necessary and a maximum quota per user split evenly.


But please expand on the "Not with the new BIOS". I'm assuming you're talking about choosing which OS to boot from @johnb35's post.
 
Personally, I never liked dual boot and haven't setup a dual boot machine in quite a few years. I prefer VMs or even a separate physical machine. I've considered installing hot swap drive bays to be able to easily switch between OSs but I generally need/want to be running multiple OSs at the same time which I can't do with separate drives or dual booting.
 
aldan said:
yeah,for the most part,i cant see any reason to dual boot.
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You do if you run 7 and are comfortable with it, but yet like to get 10 and try it out, since it is free (for the time being) I build a harness where I can connect with a power switch either one of two HDs,(5v and 12V) each containing the different OS. Now I can run either OS by selecting the desired one before I power up. A dual system without the hazards of a dual OS system.
 
i hated win8 but transitioned to 10 very smoothly.you can upgrade to 10 and you still have 30 days to revert back to 7.
 
lostsoul62 said:
What I did is buy two 120 GB SSD Drive and put Windows 7 on one and Windows 10 on the other and they are on the same computer so now I can use which one I want.
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Yeah, you could pretty much always do that.

lostsoul62 said:
Not with the new BOIS.
If you have Windows 7 and upgrade to Windows 10 from your Windows 7 you can have either one on the Internet but not both at the same time.

Of course Date is just put on a bunch of drives but the OS is Imaged and put on a bunch of drives.
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I've read both of these sentences a few times. They both seem kinda confusing as in bewildering or perplexing

lostsoul62 said:
UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) It replaces the old BIOS
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I think we most know what UEFI is. What's your point about it?
 
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