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Having Win 8.1 and Win 7 on the same computer?

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Wrathfulram

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I just found out I cant install Blade and Soul on my computer because its anti-hack program is not compatible with Win 8.1 but it does work on Win 7.

How can I have both OS's on my computer without conflicts? Have a seperate drive with Win7 on it and just change the boot order around when I want to choose what OS to use?

Thank you for your time!
 
You can do that but be careful because windows will dump crap on the none active Hdd when it does updates and such. Or you can partition the drive and have windows 8 and windows 7 on the same drive. And have the master boot record set for one or the other as default. I've had some windows update break the other OS install before. You also have to install windows 7 first then windows 8 if you do the partition route. Remember older OS first when installing OSs on separate partitions.
 
Ya im not gonna do a software rebuild lol, can I disable the HHD with win7 when not in use so that the updating problem doesn't happen?
 
The better way is to disable/unplug the windows 8 drive then install windows 7.
This will give the Windows 7 and 8 drives their own boot sectors to use and will make sure that both OS's are entirely independent of each other.
ie if one OS/drive has a problem, it wont bring down the other.
You can also use one OS to help rescue the other if a disaster occurs.

To switch between the windows versions, use the boot menu while the system is POSTing to change the boot drive or go into the BIOS setup and change the boot drive.

I have used this method for years, works great.
 
Nenu said:
The better way is to disable/unplug the windows 8 drive then install windows 7.
This will give the Windows 7 and 8 drives their own boot sectors to use and will make sure that both OS's are entirely independent of each other.
ie if one OS/drive has a problem, it wont bring down the other.
You can also use one OS to help rescue the other if a disaster occurs.

To switch between the windows versions, use the boot menu while the system is POSTing to change the boot drive or go into the BIOS setup and change the boot drive.

I have used this method for years, works great.
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ya this is what im going to try! thanks
 
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