How to dual boot PC? And a summary of my progress

[Cheez]

Yes. It's not that confusing. The most important thing is to have 2 separate partitions. Insert Windows 7 and it will ask you where you want to install it. Choose the other partition. Then it's all done. Windows does everything for you. Boot up and Windows will ask you which partition you want to boot from. Install your DAW software into the other OS. It's clean and super-fast.

 

[Angeldevimon]

Alright! so now how i partition? partition in the current OS then install the second one , or partition by formatting the com with the OS?

 

[PatheinRaindropMoe]

you need to partition, from existing hard drive, which normally is where the first OS drive live in.

With that empty space being partitioned out and formatted, then can proceed to install the 2nd os into it.

to partition and format the space first before installing, can use the built in partition manager program built in win 7 to do it.

Once done, restart computer with the win 7 boot disk in the cd drive and boot up from there. The comp will go into set up mode and from there, can choose the space partitioned out earlier to install the 2nd win 7.

Anyway, the above is what i have done recently when installing dual win 7 in one laptop. There were few interesting things which i noticed, only when having 2 win 7 bootdrive over my old setup of 2 win xp dual booting choice.

Oh well, that can be saved for later.