Windows 10: How to have Windows 7 (32 bit) within Windows 10 Home Edition 64 bit?

Hi folks, newbie here from Melbourne Australia.

As per title, I'm using Windows 10 and thoroughly enjoying it. The problem is my printer.

It's a Canon Lasershot LBP 1120 and I REALLY like it and want to keep using it but it is pretty old and for this particular printer, Canon don't offer a driver for a 64 bit operating system.

As far as I know, there are two ways I can go. I can put Windows 7 32 bit on a virtual machine or in a space on a partitioned hard drive.

I've heard that VM 5.1 causes Windows 10 to crash.

Partitioning the hard drive sounds a bit intimidating but I'll do that if I have to.

Can anyone offer some advice or point me to appropriate tutes?

I'm not willing to junk the printer and get a new one.

Cheers,


:)

 

What's the maximum RAM support for Windows 10 Home Edition and Professional OS

I'm assuming your answer above is not correct anymore. Am I right to assume that? Also, if I have Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64 bit I can upgrade to windows 10 64 bit and have 128GB ram support? I ask because i just purchased ram upgrade today to 24
gb ram and didn't know it wasn't supported by Windows 7 home. So to clarify, Windows 10 Home 64 bit will allow me to have full use of my 24 GB ram upgrade?

How much RAM does each edition of Windows 10 support?

Edition

Amount

Windows 10 Home 32 bit
4 GBs

Windows 10 Home 64 bit
128 GBs

Windows 10 Pro 32 bit
4 GBs

Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
512 GBs

Windows 10 Enterprise/Education 32 bit
4 GBs

Windows 10 Enterprise/Education 64 bit
512 GBs

 

What's the maximum RAM support for Windows 10 Home Edition and Professional OS

I'm assuming your answer above is not correct anymore. Am I right to assume that? Also, if I have Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64 bit I can upgrade to windows 10 64 bit and have 128GB ram support? I ask because i just purchased ram upgrade today to 24
gb ram and didn't know it wasn't supported by Windows 7 home. So to clarify, Windows 10 Home 64 bit will allow me to have full use of my 24 GB ram upgrade?

How much RAM does each edition of Windows 10 support?

Edition

Amount

Windows 10 Home 32 bit
4 GBs

Windows 10 Home 64 bit
128 GBs

Windows 10 Pro 32 bit
4 GBs

Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
512 GBs

Windows 10 Enterprise/Education 32 bit
4 GBs

Windows 10 Enterprise/Education 64 bit
512 GBs

You table is not correct, do your homework and learn.

Windows 10 Pro x64 can recognize 2TB of RAM

64-BIT PC GAMES

 

If you post a screenshot of disk management, it would help:
Disk Management - How to Post a Screenshot of Windows 10 General Tips Tutorials

The way that I would do it would be to shrink the existing Windows 10 partition by about 50 GB (depends on how much you want to install into the Windows 7 partition). Create a new NTFS formatted partition for Windows 7. Apply the Windows 7 image to the newly created partition using the DISM /APPLY-IMAGE command. Then set up the dual booting using the BCDBOOT command.

Code: C:\Windows\system32>dism /apply-image /? Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool Version: 10.0.15063.0 /Apply-Image /ImageFile:<path_to_image_file> /ApplyDir:<target_directory> {/Index:<image_index> | /Name:<image_name>} [/CheckIntegrity] [/Verify] [/NoRpFix] [/SWMFile:<pattern>] [/ConfirmTrustedFile] [/WIMBoot] [/Compact] [/EA] /Apply-Image /ImageFile:<path_to_image_file> /ApplyDrive:<target_drive> [/SFUFile:<pattern>] [/SkipPlatformCheck] Applies an image to a specified drive. Use /CheckIntegrity to stop the operation if WIM file corruption is detected. Use /Verify to check for errors and file duplication. Use /NoRpFix to disable the reparse point tag fix. Use /SWMFile to reference split WIM files (SWMs). <pattern> is the naming pattern and location of split files. Use /ConfirmTrustedFile to validate the image for Trusted Desktop. See DISM Image Management Command-Line Options for more information about supported platforms. Use /WIMBoot to apply the image with WIMBoot configuration. Use /Compact to apply the image in compact mode. Use /EA to apply extended attributes. Use /SFUFile to reference split FFU files (SFUs). <pattern> is the naming pattern and location of split files. Use /SkipPlatformCheck if the FFU file being applied is targeted for a device other than the machine performing the application. A special FFU file is required. Examples: DISM.exe /Apply-Image /ImageFile:install.wim /Index:1 /ApplyDir:\ DISM.exe /Apply-Image /ImageFile:install.swm /SWMFile:install*.swm /ApplyDir:\ /Index:1 DISM.exe /Apply-Image /ImageFile:flash.ffu /ApplyDrive:\\.\PhysicalDrive0 C:\Windows\system32>[/quote] Code: C:\Windows\system32>bcdboot /? Bcdboot - Bcd boot file creation and repair tool. The bcdboot.exe command-line tool is used to copy critical boot files to the system partition and to create a new system BCD store. bcdboot <source> [/l <locale>] [/s <volume-letter> [/f <firmware>]] [/v] [/m [{OS Loader ID}]] [/addlast] [/p] [/c] source Specifies the location of the windows system root. /l Specifies an optional locale parameter to use when initializing the BCD store. The default is US English. /s Specifies an optional volume letter parameter to designate the target system partition where boot environment files are copied. The default is the system partition identified by the firmware. /v Enables verbose mode. /m If an OS loader GUID is provided, this option merges the given loader object with the system template to produce a bootable entry. Otherwise, only global objects are merged. /d Specifies that the existing default windows boot entry should be preserved. /f Used with the /s command, specifies the firmware type of the target system partition. Options for <firmware> are 'UEFI', 'BIOS', or 'ALL'. /addlast Specifies that the windows boot manager firmware entry should be added last. The default behavior is to add it first. /p Specifies that the windows boot manager firmware entry position should be preserved. If entry does not exist, new entry will be added in the first position. /c Specifies that any existing objects described by the template should not be migrated. Examples: bcdboot c:\windows /l en-us bcdboot c:\windows /s h: bcdboot c:\windows /s h: /f UEFI bcdboot c:\windows /m {d58d10c6-df53-11dc-878f-00064f4f4e08} bcdboot c:\windows /d /addlast bcdboot c:\windows /p C:\Windows\system32>[/quote]

 

Thanks for replying. Here's a screenshot. Sorry it's so small.





I have a disc of Windows 7 so I'm assuming I could install from that into the new partition?

Code: C:\Windows\system32>bcdboot /? Bcdboot - Bcd boot file creation and repair tool. The bcdboot.exe command-line tool is used to copy critical boot files to the system partition and to create a new system BCD store. bcdboot <source> [/l <locale>] [/s <volume-letter> [/f <firmware>]] [/v] [/m [{OS Loader ID}]] [/addlast] [/p] [/c] source Specifies the location of the windows system root. /l Specifies an optional locale parameter to use when initializing the BCD store. The default is US English. /s Specifies an optional volume letter parameter to designate the target system partition where boot environment files are copied. The default is the system partition identified by the firmware. /v Enables verbose mode. /m If an OS loader GUID is provided, this option merges the given loader object with the system template to produce a bootable entry. Otherwise, only global objects are merged. /d Specifies that the existing default windows boot entry should be preserved. /f Used with the /s command, specifies the firmware type of the target system partition. Options for <firmware> are 'UEFI', 'BIOS', or 'ALL'. /addlast Specifies that the windows boot manager firmware entry should be added last. The default behavior is to add it first. /p Specifies that the windows boot manager firmware entry position should be preserved. If entry does not exist, new entry will be added in the first position. /c Specifies that any existing objects described by the template should not be migrated. Examples: bcdboot c:\windows /l en-us bcdboot c:\windows /s h: bcdboot c:\windows /s h: /f UEFI bcdboot c:\windows /m {d58d10c6-df53-11dc-878f-00064f4f4e08} bcdboot c:\windows /d /addlast bcdboot c:\windows /p C:\Windows\system32>[/quote] [/quote]

 

Another option which I prefer is to install Windows 7 in a virtual hard drive. This is more space efficient, and does not mess around with existing partitions.

 

I would (and I did) install it on second drive. Disconnect first, install W7 in other one, replace first one and use EasyBCD - NeoSmart Technologies to set up dual BOOT.

 

VMs are usually the best way to go with these type of situation. If the system is capable of running VMs smoothly.

 

Unless you have to deal directly with HW.

 

According to this, there are 64 bit drivers Canon Laser Shot LBP-1120 Driver Download | Driver Build

 

Nonsense -Windows 7 quite happily coexists as dual boot with Windows 10, and is a stable and secure OS. You only need to use VMs really for old OSs like XP which are not secure.

 

That is true, I keep forgetting about virtual drives. I completely agree in this case!
http://woshub.com/installation-of-wi...ual-hard-disk/

 

That link doesn't actually lead to drivers specifically for the canon LBP 1120. It's some sort of weird arse site that claims to have whatever you're looking fo and then offers you DRIVER WHIZ for all your drivers.

 

Thanks everyone. I'll find a tutorial on how to do the dual boot partition thing.

 

How about using the 32 bit version of W10 ?