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Dual booting?

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Dual booting?

I installed windows 8 on a seperate hard drive laying around. Originally I had windows 7, with 1 hard drive in my computer. Now I want to put the windows 8 hard drive as well. How do I dual boot it from the bios, instead of me clicking and going into "Choose with drive to boot from" from the bios when I could just see a screen and chose which one too boot?
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I believe you would need to partition "1" HDD (ex: 50% for win7 and 50% for win8) during the OS install.
This is how I had my system setup before using only 1 HDD, in which the option to select the OS is during boot up.
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zakregent wrote: How would I do it when I have two hard drives installed on my desktop? I don't want to partition two os in one hard drive
You can't.
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zakregent wrote: So I have to manually select which one to boot?
well ya you cannot boot up two OS simultaneously.

you can install one OS in one hdd and another in the other one. Just need the boot manager to direct to the right window drive. but windows should do that automatically
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Dual boot is useless on your main system. I guarantee you will use it no more than 5 times before realizing it's a waste of effort and disk space.
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balance wrote: well ya you cannot boot up two OS simultaneously.

you can install one OS in one hdd and another in the other one. Just need the boot manager to direct to the right window drive. but windows should do that automatically
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board123 wrote: Dual boot is useless on your main system. I guarantee you will use it no more than 5 times before realizing it's a waste of effort and disk space.
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