Windows 10: Dual Boot Installation, & Migration

Discus and support Dual Boot Installation, & Migration in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; Greetings, my username is and I used to be a member of the seven forums and this one as well. This serves as my first post given it must have been a... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by dragondagoth, Apr 9, 2020.

  1. Dual Boot Installation, & Migration


    Greetings, my username is and I used to be a member of the seven forums and this one as well. This serves as my first post given it must have been a long time since I posted and my account is no longer on here.

    The reason for this post is I have a new M.2 disk, and my OS is on an SSD, and it is rather full with programs. I have three other hdds that contain programs. My question is, if I were to create a dual boot to potentially use the M.2 disk as the primary OS, would I be able to copy the files from my SSD disk so they connect to the programs on the other three drives?

    If this reads a little convoluted M.2 (New system drive A:\\) contains Dual booted OS. SSD (Old system drive still in use contains C:\\) Other drives are D:\\ E:\\ and F:\\. E:\\ has something I want to be able to use on A:\\ such as the new game Example. Could I copy the Example.exe place it on A:\\desktop\ will the program run with ease. Or would I need to also copy the regedit files from C:\\ and move them to A:\\ so there will not be any issues should I run into any.

    Thank you for reading this far, also thank you in advance for responding.

    :)
     
    dragondagoth, Apr 9, 2020
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    could someone please list the steps they follow to install windows with a dual core processor and windows xp service pack to. I'm reletively new to amd dual core and i feel i'm missing a step. All help will be appreciated. thanx
     
    exodusprime1337, Apr 9, 2020
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  3. Solaris17 Win User
    Dual Boot?

    I can help here iv had both i used partition magic to split my HDD and i installed vista on one and xp was already on the other only problem is id watch out if i were you for some reason vista does not like to dual boot iv seen this on a couple of my machines and my buddys. so step one have xp installed step 2 find a partitioner of your choice i dont know of any except partition magic and the one included on xp...only thing is i dont think the one on xp will even partition them...then pop in your vista DVD and select the drive of your choice....the only thing i can think of that causes vista to hate dual booting sooo much is that when their are 2 OS's installed xp uses its own prog to list them on boot well vista uses a totally diff boot loader than the previous os's and i think they conflict the problems i hade were the standard missing windows folder missing HAL.dll and the nt one dont remember the name.....that and after your done vista and boot into xp things didnt like to start correctly specially if you scan disk with vista.
     
    Solaris17, Apr 9, 2020
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  4. topgundcp Win User

    Dual Boot Installation, & Migration

    Dual Booting with Windows 8.1


    The procedure below will allow you to boot Windows separately or in dual boot configuration.
    Here's what I recommend to do:
    1. Disconnect the drive containing Windows 8.1
    2. Install Windows 10 with one drive connected.
    3. After step 2, reconnect the drive containing Windows 8.1
    4. Boot up Windows 8.1. Open disk management and take a note of the drive letter of Windows 10 OS.
      NOTE: if you boot up Windows 10, then take a note of Windows 8.1 drive letter
    5. Open Admin command prompt and type: bcdboot X:\windows where X: is the drive letter of Windows 10 (Windows 8.1 if you boot from Windows 10 in step 4)
    6. Reboot the PC. You should have a dual boot screen.

    NOTE: To break off the dual boot setting, Win+R->msconfig->boot and delete the none default entry on the list.
     
    topgundcp, Apr 9, 2020
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