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jzombek6

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hello everyone
recently installed win 8 and am not quite liking it just yet.
heres what I would like to do,not sure if it can be done and also need assistance in doing it if it can.
installed a new internal hard drive that I would like to install win 7 , giving me option of using win 7 while using win 8 while getting used to it. I have some programs that do not work on 8 and cannot find drivers for them. one piece of software is micro visio. visio uses a lot of memory and thought if I can use it on a 2nd drive without a lot of software it may work better. I have a 64 bit,4g ram on my system.
can you give me direction on how to accomplish this.
thanks

couple of thing I forgot to mention
best buy people said if u use dual booting,when u boot to win 7,it will wipe out win8.
also,do I need to configure one as master,one slave-they are sata drives.
 
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Using it on a second drive wont help...if anything, it may slow down as the computer is having to read two drives. I dont really understand what you are trying to do though...can you explain more?
 
AshleyScopes said:
Using it on a second drive wont help...if anything, it may slow down as the computer is having to read two drives. I dont really understand what you are trying to do though...can you explain more?
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No it won't...

@OP, what you are talking about is dual booting, which can be done.

Before you install any OS, Partition your hard drive into at least 2 partitions. You may want 3, with the third having files/folders that you will regularly use/need, such as music, videos, office files etc.

Install Windows 7 first on one partition, then install Windows 8 on the other. When you boot up you will then have the choice of Windows 7 or 8.

Alternatively, installed just Windows 7 and then run Windows 8 in a virtual machine
 
I'd just install it in a virtual machine. That way, if you don't like it, you can just delete the virtual machine in a matter of seconds. Removing the Windows 8 partition etc will take longer.
 
spirit said:
I'd just install it in a virtual machine. That way, if you don't like it, you can just delete the virtual machine in a matter of seconds. Removing the Windows 8 partition etc will take longer.
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A matter of minutes instead?

Format Partition
Expand primary partition

I, personally, would dual boot. You have better compatibility (generally speaking) than in a VM and you have all of the power available
 
spirit said:
I'd just install it in a virtual machine. That way, if you don't like it, you can just delete the virtual machine in a matter of seconds. Removing the Windows 8 partition etc will take longer.
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The good thing about that is that if you have Windows 7 Enterprise or Ultimate, you can chose to boot from the Virtual HDD file!
 
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