Windows 10: Dual Boot Windows 10 and Windows 7

I have just 'upgraded' my Windows 7 working partition to Windows 10 and it all worked OK and the desktop looks identical in both. I did this using Macrium Reflect to take an image of W7, update to W10, save the W10 image and then put the original W7 image back.

I intend to continue to work with W7 so that I am compatible with the organisation I volunteer with. I would like to make my pc dual-boot so that I have W7 on one partition and W10 on another.

If I do this which OS should be on the C: drive and which should be on another. When I originally tried to update W7 images on my E: drive, the W10 update did not want to know.

Many thanks for any help or advice.

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Dual Boot Change from Windows 8.1 & 7 to Windows 10 & 7

I have a dual boot Windows 8.1 and Windows 7.

(1) Is it possible to have a triple boot Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows 7?

(2) If not, can I just upgrade the Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 to have a dual boot Windows 10 and Windows 7? Or do I have to do the normal dual boot set-up?

 

How do I restore dual boot capability after Windows 10 clean install removed it

My computer was dual-boot with Windows 7 boot partitions on two separate drives. After upgrading to Windows 10, the dual boot provision worked fine. However after a clean install of Windows 10, dual-boot capability is no longer available. The boot partition
for the remaining Windows 7 syBistem is intact. Only the dual boot option is gone.

I tried the changing the default operating system under System Properties/Advanced/Startup and Recovery, but the only choice is Windows 10. Windows 7 isn't a option. I'm guessing that the clean Windows 10 install wiped out access to the dual-boot menu.

Thanks.

Bill

 

Do you have a second license for Windows? In order to dual boot, legally, you have to purchase (or use an already existing) second license for Windows. When you upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10 you do not gain a new, second license for Windows, you still have only 1 license = 1 installed version.

Windows 10 - Dual Boot with Windows 7 or Windows 8 - Windows 10 Forums

 

Yes I already have a second license for Windows 7 purchased a while ago through eBay and never used.

I have already read the thread that you gave me the link for but it deals with installing a new copy of Windows 10 on to the second partition. I am interested in any comments or problems that anyone has had when a copy of Windows 7 on drive C has been updated to Windows 10 and then a image taken. Another image is then used to put that C drive Windows 7 again and the image taken of the converted Windows 10 partition is restored to a partition on the same hard drive but to a different partition letter such as E: Will the create problems running Windows 10 from this E: drive.

 

After you restore the Windows to E: drive, you will need to add it to the boot menu. In the Windows you are booted into, open a command prompt with administrator privileges. Run:
bcdboot E:\Windows /d /addlast

If it isn't E:\ drive, just put in whatever drive letter it gets. When you boot into the newly added Windows, it will get C:\ drive when you boot into it.

 

Thank you for the information. I have now restored the W10 image and I actually used the program EasyBCD to set up a OS choice program as part of the start-up. It all works as it should. I can now continue to use W7 for my 'work' and look in to W10 when I want to.