Windows 10: Windows installation for dual boot

Hello to everyone,

I have UEFI based laptop HP Envy 17J015SR.

I wanted to install Windows 7 and Windows 10 to my laptop in order to use advantages of both systems.

I have both operating systems license and i have created installation drives for both sustems separately by using RuFus application.

As my laptop BIOS has UEFI firmware i created both systems for GPT structure and i i understa that in order to boot windows 7 i will need to enable legacy support.

It is OK for me.

But i have one concern. I will clean install these systems. Which system should i install first? I read on internet that older system in my case windows 7 x64 better to install first. But in this case it creates 100 mb system partition and when i install windows 10 by having windows 7 installed already, recovery partition 529mb not created.

But when i install windows 10 first , then all these partitions MSR,Recovery and system are created normally and then i can install windows 7 over windows 10 without any problem.

Thus if i install 1 windows 10 then 2 windows 7 i have all partitions on my system disk. I have only 1 HDD and i install those systems to different partitions of that HDD by the way i read different documents on internet and know how to do all these steps

My question is can i install windows 10 first then windows 7? Or which option is better? Does it matter

? Will i have problems in a future because of installation order?

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windows xp installation and dual core am

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

 

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.

 

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.