After making the necessary changes to your BIOS system, locate the option to save your settings. Select the option to save and exit the BIOS to save and reboot your computer. Part 4. Insert the install disk. Restart your computer. If your computer is powered on, go ahead and restart it. Otherwise, press the power button on your computer so that it boots from the install disk. Wait for the setup program to load.
If your computer properly boots from the Install disk, you should see the setup program for the operating system. The setup program for each operating system is a little different. Generally, you will start by selecting your language and keyboard layout. Enter the CD Key or serial number if needed. Some operating systems, such as Ubuntu are free to install. Other operating systems, such as Windows, require you to purchase a CD key or serial number.
If asked to enter a serial number or CD key, enter the numbers in the space provided. Select the "Custom" or "Other" installation option. When selecting the installation type, select "Custom", "Other", "Something Else" or similar. Selecting a standard installation may overwrite your current operating system.
Format the drive you want to install the operating system on. When installing a new operating system, you will be asked to select which drive you want to install it on and format the drive. Select the unallocated space you partitioned earlier. If you are installing Linux you will need to format the drive as Ext4 If you are installing Ubuntu, you will also need to format a section of the unallocated space as a swap area.
This area should be equivalent to the amount of RAM you have installed on your computer. Reboot to switch between operating systems. Once you install two or more operating systems on your computer, you will see a menu asking which operating system you want to load when you boot up your PC. Restart your computer to switch between operating systems. Luigi Oppido. Make sure you have 10 total partitions.
Windows 10 needs 5 partitions to run a single operating system—therefore, you'll need 10 partitions to run 2 operating systems on your hard drive.
Not Helpful 3 Helpful 0. Make sure you're mapping out your partitions correctly. In some cases, people will set up partitions and install their first operating system, but then realize that there's not enough space for a second one. Not Helpful 1 Helpful 0. You may need two operating systems for reasons of compatibility, features, recovering your computer in case of errors and file corruptions, and running programs for different systems. Having two operating systems can also help if one of the operating systems fail -- you can boot into the functioning operating system s and try to diagnose the problem.
Not Helpful 2 Helpful If you mean storage, which is what programs are downloaded onto, purchase either an HDD drive hard drive or as SSD solid state drive -- the SSD is typically the faster of the two. Do not download RAM -- it's not software. I have seen lots of people get viruses from trying to increase their RAM by downloading from malicious websites.
You will follow basically the same steps. Tor example, if Windows 10 is installed in drive C and you want to install Windows 8 also, just insert the Windows 8 CD in the CD drive and select a drive other than C. After the installation is completed, restart your PC and this time you will get to choose between Windows 10 or 8.
Not Helpful 9 Helpful There are many programs and online tutorials about Hackintoshing. The only problem other than the face that it is illegal is that in order to make a Hackintosh, you have to be careful to use a machine that is compatible with Mac OS; otherwise, it won't work. It also requires a lot of time and patience.
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Information and links in this thread may no longer be available or relevant. If you have a question create a new topic by clicking here and select the appropriate board. If it were Win 10 to be removed, the above would do it switching Win 10 with Win 7 in the instructions. However, you're left with Win 10's useless recovery partition. Or did you get the message before it completed? Use the Snipping Tool ask Cortana to make pictures.
Use the Insert Image icon above your post to insert them. I am attaching a series of images which should answer your questions above. Sorry they are joined together I have not done this before. As you can see the message appears at the end of the wizard. Andre Da Costa Article Author. Technical Level : Intermediate Summary We previously looked at how to install Windows 10 with older versions of Windows. In previous scenarios, the older version of Windows is installed first. Can you install an older version of Windows, if Windows 10 is installed first?
The answer is yes. There are some perquisite tasks required; such as ensuring the system is compatible with the older version of Windows first. Also, newer computers come with certain security mechanisms built in, disabling them will be required to facilitate the older version of Windows. Dual booting is more convenient, since you don't have to delete Windows 10, while still maintaining a legacy version of Windows for compatibility purposes. Details Before we begin, I strongly recommend you backup your new computer with Windows 10 before carrying out these procedures.
How to: Create a system image in Windows 10 How to restore a Windows 10 system image to an existing or larger storage device Make sure the computer you plan to install the older version of Windows on has supported hardware drivers.
Important Drivers you should download and save in advance When you perform a new install or upgrade, you should download the latest software drivers from the manufacturers website for your computer model. How to find and download drivers from the manufacturers website: Drivers can normally be found in the Support section from the manufacturers website where you will find a Software and Drivers sub-section.
Learn more - references Windows 10, but the same principles work for finding Windows 7 or Windows 8 drivers: How to: Install and Update drivers in Windows 10 Have Windows 7 or Windows 8.
Rufus is the best solution to use: If your computer is UEFI based, these are normally systems that come pre-loaded with Windows 8 or later, you will need to prepare the ISO file for such a configuration or you will receive an error message during setup. An unallocated partition will now be available.
Right click it then click New Simple Volume This will start the New Simple Volume wizard, which will let you format, assign a drive letter and label the volume. Click Yes when prompted. Wait while Windows install files are copied. After restarting, Windows will boot into setup. Windows setup will continue copying files then restart again. That's it, when you ready to boot into your OS a choice, you can easily do so. How satisfied are you with this article? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.
Previous Next. You have published a duplicate of my Wiki article, How to dual boot Windows 10 and Windows 7 please remove yours! Everyone is eager to gather or read some news related to this Windows 8 from Microsoft. Even Google has revealed that Windows 8 has the term which is searched lots in it currently.
Well, why t talk about that, lets come to our article which is on focusing how to install Windows 8 in your system. Windows 8 the full version is expected to release in the month of October. Well, before that we have got the Windows 8 Developer Preview which was released and hit the record of downloading it , times in just a span of 24 hours.
This shows how people are so crazy on Windows 8. Well, another thing from Microsoft will be the Windows 8 Beta which is expected to be released in February. So now let's see about Windows 8 Developer Preview. This is an complete step by step article which helps you to install the Windows 8 Developer Preview on your computer. This Pre-Beta version from Microsoft is mainly released for the testing and development purpose which they would imply it on the full version which will come in The windows 8 Developer Edition is not recommended to install and try in your production or work use computer as this just a testing edition which may subject to any error and lead to file corruption.
So use a separate system, better buy s second hand system and install the Windows 8 Developer Edition to experience the pre-build of Windows 8. But before you do it, please the follow the steps below. You can set up for anything but you need carry out the below mentioned safety criteria.
Dual Boot: If you plan to set up Dual Boot, then make sure that you create a separate drive with more than 20 GB as primary partition.
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