First Post Dualboot Windows

[AegeanSea]

Im new in the comunity but there is a topic that recently has been confusing me and that is usign DualBoot ... to install various System on the same system , but:

Can you Boot your PC using an ISO image located in your Hard Drive ?
With What Tool ?

 

[Yash Dedhia]

Hello so yeah first of all Dual Boot is possible so you will be able to run 2 or more Operating Systems from same Hard drive.
There are 2 ways to Dual Boot.
First of all you can use Program such as VmWare Workstation which allows you to create a virtual environment on your Hard drive & run the desired OS you want to run by allocating required amount of Ram, Hard Disk space etc. However it allows you to run on a virtually created environment & not booting directly from the Hard Drive.

Dual Booting consists of running 2 or more Operating System from the same Hard Drive. For this you will need to partition your Hard Drive & install the desired OS you need. Example you can install Windows 10 on C Drive partition while running Other OS even if its Linux or Windows or Mac OS on other Partition eg: D drive.
While you start your System after installing the OS on the different Partitions you will shown a Boot Dialog showing Options to run which Operating System you want to proceed with Windows 10/Windows 8/Linux/Mac OS whatever you have installed.

There are tons of articles available on Dual Booting on google. For more info i would like you to check HowtoGeek guides on detailed explanation of Dual Booting. Hope i explained you well enough.!

 

[SiteWizard]

Well sayd, i like you'r info

 

[Mindsnake2]

thanks for the easy to understand info. appreciate it.

 

[The Rain]

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[Uncle Mac]

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, Thank You.. And thanks to the rest here also.
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Thanks again Guys

 

[Uncle Mac]

Im new in the comunity but there is a topic that recently has been confusing me and that is usign DualBoot ... to install various System on the same system , but:

I know I've answered this question a number of times in the past.... but I'll answer it again.

Please follow along with these detailed instructions as a missed step can cause a problem. I've done this a number of times successfully so I know a thing or two about this.
As stated earlier by @Yash Dedhia, there are two main ways you can dual boot.

1: Via VmWare Workstation. As stated, you can run an OS in a virtual machine using a certain amount of ram and running in a virtual hard disk.
Though this is not really dual boot as it does not show up in your system's boot menu, it will allow you to test an OS without re-partitioning your HDD.

2: Dual boot. This is somewhat involved but not hard to do, so please follow along. In order for a Windows dual boot to work correctly, you need to first back up all the data you want to save.
Second, re-partition your HDD. There are various tools out there to make this easy, but my favorite go-to tool to use is

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It's a very easy to use tool that runs off a USB drive, and you boot off the USB drive outside of Windows.
Once booted to gparted, just follow the instructions in the partition wizard and re-partition your HDD.
Third, once done re-partitioning your HDD, install the older Windows OS FIRST. Once done setting that up, then install the newer Windows OS SECOND. (IE: Win. 7 - 8.1 - 10, not the other way around) If you install the newer first then older, then dualboot will not work correctly.

Note: If you want to dualboot Windows and Linux, then install your flavor of Windows first, then your flavor of Linux second for it to dualboot correctly. It will not work the other way around.

Once finished, reboot your machine and you should see a boot menu with your installed OS's.

Can you Boot your PC using an ISO image located in your Hard Drive ?
With What Tool ?

I know there is a way to do this. The old method was to extract the contents directly to the root of your blank HDD and boot to that and install, but the preferred method these days is to simply burn your ISO directly to a USB drive then install.
The best tool to burn an ISO to a USB drive is

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, and it's one of the preferred tools here as it is very easy to use. Instructions on how to do that are here:

You must be registered for see links

Hope all this helps you.

 

[Uncle Mac]

I know I've answered this question a number of times in the past.... but I'll answer it again.

Please follow along with these detailed instructions as a missed step can cause a problem. I've done this a number of times successfully so I know a thing or two about this.
As stated earlier by @Yash Dedhia, there are two main ways you can dual boot.

1: Via VmWare Workstation. As stated, you can run an OS in a virtual machine using a certain amount of ram and running in a virtual hard disk.
Though this is not really dual boot as it does not show up in your system's boot menu, it will allow you to test an OS without re-partitioning your HDD.

2: Dual boot. This is somewhat involved but not hard to do, so please follow along. In order for a Windows dual boot to work correctly, you need to first back up all the data you want to save.
Second, re-partition your HDD. There are various tools out there to make this easy, but my favorite go-to tool to use is

You must be registered for see links

It's a very easy to use tool that runs off a USB drive, and you boot off the USB drive outside of Windows.
Once booted to gparted, just follow the instructions in the partition wizard and re-partition your HDD.
Third, once done re-partitioning your HDD, install the older Windows OS FIRST. Once done setting that up, then install the newer Windows OS SECOND. (IE: Win. 7 - 8.1 - 10, not the other way around) If you install the newer first then older, then dualboot will not work correctly.

Note: If you want to dualboot Windows and Linux, then install your flavor of Windows first, then your flavor of Linux second for it to dualboot correctly. It will not work the other way around.

Once finished, reboot your machine and you should see a boot menu with your installed OS's.



I know there is a way to do this. The old method was to extract the contents directly to the root of your blank HDD and boot to that and install, but the preferred method these days is to simply burn your ISO directly to a USB drive then install.
The best tool to burn an ISO to a USB drive is

You must be registered for see links

, and it's one of the preferred tools here as it is very easy to use. Instructions on how to do that are here:

You must be registered for see links

Hope all this helps you.

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