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i've google around on how to dual boot windows 8 with windows 7, and they all say choose the install to a partition option and the thing is, i dont get that option when i try to install in windows 7. Do i have to install from usb to get it?
Second question is microsoft gives free software to the students in the information technology program free using this site http://e5.onthehub.com/. Im just wondering will they give me windows 8 free since the consumer preview is already there.
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i've google around on how to dual boot windows 8 with windows 7, and they all say choose the install to a partition option and the thing is, i dont get that option when i try to install in windows 7. Do i have to install from usb to get it?
Second question is microsoft gives free software to the students in the information technology program free using this site http://e5.onthehub.com/. Im just wondering will they give me windows 8 free since the consumer preview is already there.
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you have burnt the ISO to a disk and then booted to that disk haven't you?
that will then allow you to select a install location, I strongly suggest you make the partition BEFORE you do this tho, in the past ive had some issues with the Windows installer making a mess of the partitions. So if you don't have a partition already then shrink your existing one with some form of partitioning program, then reboot and load up the Win 8 disk you have made, select the free space and make a new partition, tell win 8 to install there, and bobs your uncle
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Windows 8 DP CP and RP are all free, you can get a discounted final release Windows 8 student licence, but you wont get a free final release.
dazza9075 said:
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you have burnt the ISO to a disk and then booted to that disk haven't you?
that will then allow you to select a install location, I strongly suggest you make the partition BEFORE you do this tho, in the past ive had some issues with the Windows installer making a mess of the partitions. So if you don't have a partition already then shrink your existing one with some form of partitioning program, then reboot and load up the Win 8 disk you have made, select the free space and make a new partition, tell win 8 to install there, and bobs your uncle
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Windows 8 DP CP and RP are all free, you can get a discounted final release Windows 8 student licence, but you wont get a free final release.
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no i was using daemon tools to mount the disk, i dont do cds anymore lol but i guess ill try it from a usb, and yes i have already set up the partition. ill install from usb then. thanks
If you install from inside Windows7 you will upgrade Windows 7 to 8. To have the dual boot you need to do it from dvd or usb and choose custom installation
Since December 2013 I have Lenovo G505s laptop that came with Windows 8 pre-installed. Contacted Lenovo to get a Windows 8.1 upgrade disk. No avail.
So I decided to upgrade the laptop via Windows Store to Windows 8.1. The upgrade took hours. Best: Had no problems with Windows afterwards. All drivers are working. Thank God.
The laptop comes with a recovery drive, but this - by nature - only holds a copy of Windows 8 pre-installed. Not useful when it comes to refresh/restore the laptop - currently Windows 8.1.
Because the recovery drive will include Windows 8 pre-installed, I have need to upgrade to Windows 8.1 again after I refresh or reset my laptop. At least thus is stated by Microsoft here (Step 8)
Anybody can tell me how to refresh the recovery partition? I won't work with USB stick.
MS has no consumer-based solution for what you're asking. For IT and OEMs, there are commandline tools to capture and deploy WIMs (Windows images). To go this route, first use DISM to capture (back-up) your current setup into a WIM file. Next, update the System (ESP) partition, then the WinRE partition with files from Win 8.1 boot disk. Finally, apply the captured WIM into the recovery partition, overwriting the old WIM. Commandline tools to do these are dism, reagentc, et al. All of the needed info are available on Technet. Start at the below link, and branch out as needed:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825072.aspx
The vastly easier (and faster, and more efficient) solution is to forgo the MS solution, and simply use a good image backup solution. I use TrueImage backup, and there are many others. You can back up directly to a USB storage device at any time, obviating the need for a recovery partition. Recovery is just a USB boot key away.
If opting for the latter, aside from reclaiming space from recovery partition (30GB), you can also reclaim space from the now-obsolete "driver" partition (20GB).
Will try the next days what you suggested and report whether could solve my issue succesfullyl. For now, thanks a lot.
I picked up a TW800 from Micro Center and it has both a front facing and back facing camera but I can't use the front one for pictures or recording, the camera app just doesn't have such an option or at least I don't see one. Are there any 3rd party camera apps out there that would address this issue? Thanks in advanced for your help. :laugh:
I bought the same device - skype will work with the front camera. Running out of internal memory quick on this thing.
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I bought the same device - skype will work with the front camera. Running out of internal memory quick on this thing.
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I know what you mean, I bought a 32GB SD card just to find out you can't really install apps on the SD card or at least I don't know how.
Format the SD card as NTFS, move the \Program Files\WindowsApps folder to the SD card (make sure you preserve security and other such metadata, not just the files themselves, thus the card needing to be NTFS), create a symlink pointing to the new location. Alternatively, do this for individual apps within that folder. You may need to do it from a boot disk or as true Admin (not "run as Administrator" but actually under the local Administrator account). Don't forget to make sure that local-to-remote symlinks are enabled (fsutil is your friend).
You can, of course, install desktop apps to the SD card just fine, even if it's formatted as FAT. You can also relocate and/or move+symlink other stuff to the SD card, like your user profile.
I took my TW800 back and got the TW801 with the 64G sd card. I was able to install Ubuntu in a virtual machine all running off my external sd card and its really cool. You could still do this probably on the TW800.
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Format the SD card as NTFS, move the \Program Files\WindowsApps folder to the SD card (make sure you preserve security and other such metadata, not just the files themselves, thus the card needing to be NTFS), create a symlink pointing to the new location. Alternatively, do this for individual apps within that folder. You may need to do it from a boot disk or as true Admin (not "run as Administrator" but actually under the local Administrator account). Don't forget to make sure that local-to-remote symlinks are enabled (fsutil is your friend).
You can, of course, install desktop apps to the SD card just fine, even if it's formatted as FAT. You can also relocate and/or move+symlink other stuff to the SD card, like your user profile.
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Thanks GoodDay, I managed to install office on the SD Drive but I'm still very low on space, any other tricks of the trade?
You're welcome!
Make sure compression is enabled on all relevant drives (Windows Explorer -> right-click any drive -> Properties -> "Compress this drive to save space"). NTFS compression is less efficient than things like ZIP, but that's because it needs to allow fairly random access into even big files without decompressing them first, and it's still pretty good. Also may actually improve performance in some cases; it uses more RAM and CPU when access storage but reduces storage I/O time, and the I/O speed is usually the bottleneck (on magnetic storage, compression is usually a significant speed-up). Note that doing this may confuse/break "file undelete" utilities, though those are pretty iffy on flash storage (when TRIM is enabled) anyhow.
If you don't mind losing hibernate, you can get back the space consumed by the hiberfile (which is to say, the amount of RAM you have) by running "powercfg -H OFF" in an Admin command prompt, or at least reduce the size of the hiberfile somewhat using "powercfg -H -Size 75" or similar (the last number is a percentage, must be at least 50). I don't know if it's possible to put the hiberfile on a separate volume, but I doubt it (since it needs to load before the kernel even resumes).
You can reduce the size of the pagefile if you don't usually need it much. Windows will also let you create one on another volume (which may let you shrink or remove the one on C: without running out of virtual memory space). May not work with anything that the OS recognizes as removable storage, though, as the system will almost certainly crash if it loses access to the pagefile.
Disk Cleanup, as always, is your friend. Windows Updates and various temp files all consume a lot of space.
Tools like WinDirStat are really handy for figuring out where your storage is going.
Problem resetting Windows 8.1
Hi, i recently purchased TW800 but it got very slow after it filled the storage with windows updates. Now i want to reset my tab but I'm unable to do so.
I'm getting an error saying "There was a problem resetting your PC". Checked online for solutions but most of them are suggesting to reinstall the OS. I have a windows license but can I use it for this tab? Else can you suggest any way out?
Anyone know if we can complete wipe out the winbook and reinstall windows 8.1 pro? I have my own licensed version of windows 8.1 pro. If we can do this, there are 16GB of space to use and we don't have to worry about space too much.
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Anyone know if we can complete wipe out the winbook and reinstall windows 8.1 pro? I have my own licensed version of windows 8.1 pro. If we can do this, there are 16GB of space to use and we don't have to worry about space too much.
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I don't know about installing Windows 8.1 Pro but I found info on another site on how to install Windows 10 technical preview and I think it should be the same for installing Windows 8.1 pro. http://www.tabletroms.com/forums/winbook-tw100/7314-custom-reload-tw700-800-801-win-8-1-win10.html
Enable RDP on Windows 8.1 Basic for Winbook TW700/800/801/802/100
I didn't see many threads on this tablet on XDA yet, so I figured I throw this on here. I picked up a Winbook TW801 yesterday and I was trying to use remote desktop to log into the tablet. I then came to the realization that Windows 8.1 Basic doesn't have RDP enabled. I did some digging and found a batch file that installs the necessary files and permissions to enable it.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1749299/RDP Enable 8.1.zip
Just unzip and drop that folder on your tablet and run the install.bat file. After the install you can delete the files you copied over to save space. You are then able to RDP into the tablet. It works great if you don't have a keyboard and mouse to hook up to it and want to manage things on the tablet quickly.
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I didn't see many threads on this tablet on XDA yet, so I figured I throw this on here. I picked up a Winbook TW801 yesterday and I was trying to use remote desktop to log into the tablet. I then came to the realization that Windows 8.1 Basic doesn't have RDP enabled. I did some digging and found a batch file that installs the necessary files and permissions to enable it.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1749299/RDP Enable 8.1.zip
Just unzip and drop that folder on your tablet and run the install.bat file. After the install you can delete the files you copied over to save space. You are then able to RDP into the tablet. It works great if you don't have a keyboard and mouse to hook up to it and want to manage things on the tablet quickly.
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I bought this too thanks for the zip. I was wanting to run Linux on this tablet like with a dual boot - but no drivers really so I just use VMWARE and run Ubuntu and Mint on both 32 and 64 bit virtual machines (with Intel VT option selected even though windows is 32 bit). I put a 64 Gig sdcard in the external where the the virtual machines are installed.
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If you need drivers for Windows (which you may be able to use in a wrapper to run under Linux), you can grab them from here:
https://drive.google.com/folderview...dDU21IaGYxbmU5WlgzWDd5dkc3cGZnd0k&usp=sharing
Those are the TW801 drivers extracted from a system image. People on the Microcenter forums report they work for all the variants of the Winbook tablets, but I haven't tested them on anything other than the TW801.
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I bought this too thanks for the zip. I was wanting to run Linux on this tablet like with a dual boot - but no drivers really so I just use VMWARE and run Ubuntu and Mint on both 32 and 64 bit virtual machines (with Intel VT option selected even though windows is 32 bit). I put a 64 Gig sdcard in the external where the the virtual machines are installed.
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wow, surprising that you can run VMWARE and install Ubuntun, how is the speed?
I have installed Ubuntu 64 Bit and 32 Bit virtual machines - takes forever to install Linux Image - but its not bad once its running. I can play videos, stream music. I also installed LinuxMint 64 Bit and its pretty good too. Only 2 GB Ram - so allocated 1.3 GB to virtual machine and the rest to Windows.
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If you need drivers for Windows (which you may be able to use in a wrapper to run under Linux), you can grab them from here:
https://drive.google.com/folderview...dDU21IaGYxbmU5WlgzWDd5dkc3cGZnd0k&usp=sharing
Those are the TW801 drivers extracted from a system image. People on the Microcenter forums report they work for all the variants of the Winbook tablets, but I haven't tested them on anything other than the TW801.
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cool i will check it out thanks
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w1retap said:
If you need drivers for Windows (which you may be able to use in a wrapper to run under Linux), you can grab them from here:
https://drive.google.com/folderview...dDU21IaGYxbmU5WlgzWDd5dkc3cGZnd0k&usp=sharing
Those are the TW801 drivers extracted from a system image. People on the Microcenter forums report they work for all the variants of the Winbook tablets, but I haven't tested them on anything other than the TW801.
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I can even use Unity mode with Linux Mint. Also, the physical windows button on the tablet activates the Ubuntu app launcher, and all of the host devices work on the virtual machine. I have also installed XBMC and ProjectM and VLC. and Pithos (pandora) and they all work good. I even have a Delorme GPS usb that I installed GPXD and Foxtrot and can run GPS.
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Friends, I have TW800 tablet, but its broken. While installing Ubuntu I wiped all partitions and now device doesn't boot. Is there any recovery partition image for this tablet? Or I can simply install Windows 8.1 and apply drivers from upper links?
This tablet is useless now in 2019. I managed to install Windows 10 on it but now it sucks even more and is slower, the memory just fills up too quick. Wish there was a way to just run a Linux distro without having to boot into Windows at all.
I offered myself to do a guide to install Windows 10 on the Winbook TW800/801, this might work for the others too and even for other tablets, however.
TRY AT YOUR OWN RISK, I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING THAT HAPPENS TO YOUR TABLET OR THE WORLD.
This guide is very tedious but it will payoff in the long run, I regret nothing and I will not comeback to Windows 8/8.1.
-Requirements:
2 - USB Stick: 16GB or more. Why 2?: I just want to make sure nothing goes wrong, I will explain later why.
USB Hub with USB Keyboard and USB Mouse
A brain?
I will simplify the guide, later I will make a longer one, and see if more devices work.
Step 1. Do the gansta rap. Go to Control Panel > Backup and Restore.
Step 2. When asked rock and plug in one of the USB then make the HDD backup.
Step 3. With the second USB Stick now make a backup of Windows folder.
Step 4. Extract the Windows 10 ISO (recommended builds 10041 or 10049) in the C:/ Disk
Step 5. Enter the extracted Windows 10 folder, then enter > Source
Step 6. Execute the Setup.exe in the source folder, not the one outside that folder or else it will give you error.
Step 7. Follow all the normal steps to install Windows, it will not give you the option to format but it will let you install it.
Step 8. After it is installed nothing will work, this is where the USB Hub / Keyboard and Mouse will give be of use.
Step 9. After plugging the USB Hub / Keyboard and Mouse also put the USB Stick where the Windows folder is located.
Step 10. Go to Device Manager and then all the devices with ? or ! go to them and update drivers, use specific location and put the location where the old Windows folder is.
Step 11. Repeat the same for all devices even for all the devices that are working fine without any symbol, same goes for graphic.
Step 12. ENJOY!, now unplug everything touch and WiFi/Bluetooth and anything else should be working.
I will update the guide in some more hours to add more information.
lumia 5202
can u tell me how to install window 10 in lumia 520
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can u tell me how to install window 10 in lumia 520
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I don't have any Lumia phone that I could try it on, sorry mate.
Thanks but it didn't work for the TW800 I'm missing hard drive space on this POS and it won't let me do it off of removable media either. Sucks looks like I'm stuck with 8.1 for ever.
I successfully installed windows 10 on my TW-801 with the free windows 10 download and everything works perfect. I went directly to Microsofts website and first installed internally - I had to install it twice the second time via the sdcard image so it does not ask you for the product key. I am also running Ubuntu via VMWare virtual machine on this tablet. Windows 10 is so much better than 8.1 on this tablet. Also when you download windows 10 it gives you the option of 32 or 64 bit. I just installed the 32 bit since the stock 8.1 was 32 bit - but I am wondering since it is a 64 bit processor if you can install the 64 bit version.
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I successfully installed windows 10 on my TW-801 with the free windows 10 download and everything works perfect. I went directly to Microsofts website and first installed internally - I had to install it twice the second time via the sdcard image so it does not ask you for the product key. I am also running Ubuntu via VMWare virtual machine on this tablet. Windows 10 is so much better than 8.1 on this tablet. Also when you download windows 10 it gives you the option of 32 or 64 bit. I just installed the 32 bit since the stock 8.1 was 32 bit - but I am wondering since it is a 64 bit processor if you can install the 64 bit version.
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Do you have any idea to install Windows 10 from bootable USB without Windows 8.1,
I did usb installation and it always crash with blue screen
My tw800 is broken, it cannot login into Windows anymore, it always do automatic recovery and No. Windows shows... i have delete system.001
Please help...!
thank you
clean install 10 tw802
i was able to clean install windows 10 from usb. its a bit of a pain reinstalling all the drivers and you do need usb hub to connect mouse and keyboard but it can be done.
Is there any way to run android apps?
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Has anyone been able to install Windows 10 Threshold 2 (1511 lastest build) My TW801 freezes always at 40% of the installation
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Has anyone been able to install Windows 10 Threshold 2 (1511 lastest build) My TW801 freezes always at 40% of the installation
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The 1511 build installer won't finish on the WinBook tablets. You should use the installer from July 29th to get Windows 10 on it, then let it update itself to 1511.
how you can fix touchscreen and gaerometer drivers? I have win10 on my TW800 but only work with keboard and mouse and vertical postion. Any drivers you have for those too becasue rest is working better than 8.1
so how i can fix it? Microcenter said they are not supporting Windows 10 rollback to Windows 8.1 but which version or where i can find drivers they are not helping too.
Thanks @TravisAntonio !
For anyone still fooling with the TW801, I'm about to find out if I can fresh install the latest Windows 10 (otherwise using these instructions), however, if build 1903 still has the same installation problem that 1511 evidently had, Dell has a webpage here where they give direct Microsoft hosted download links to the 32 and 64-bit versions of the MediaCreationTool for build 1507. Note that even if you want to download the 32-bit version but you're doing it on a 64-bit PC, you want the 64-bit MediaCreationTool - you can still download the 32-bit ISO from the 64-bit tool. I can confirm that although the size of the build 1507 ISO doesn't match up with the sizes listed on Dell's site (same link as above), the size is close enough - possibly the tool is downloading the very last, most up to date build 1507 ISO.
The direct Microsoft hosted download links for the build 1507 MediaCreationTools are:
x86: MediaCreationTool
x64: MediaCreationTool64
Once I get around to actually fooling with the tablet again, I'll post an update regarding which fresh install build I had to use.
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I successfully installed windows 10 on my TW-801 with the free windows 10 download and everything works perfect. I went directly to Microsofts website and first installed internally - I had to install it twice the second time via the sdcard image so it does not ask you for the product key. I am also running Ubuntu via VMWare virtual machine on this tablet. Windows 10 is so much better than 8.1 on this tablet. Also when you download windows 10 it gives you the option of 32 or 64 bit. I just installed the 32 bit since the stock 8.1 was 32 bit - but I am wondering since it is a 64 bit processor if you can install the 64 bit version.
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Thanks for share me such information. I am also using window 10 64 bit version.
Well, some great news. I followed the directions but with a very recent build 1903 of Windows 10 x86, downloaded 8/17/2019 - MD5 of the ISO was A9E0929B411E18867F6A630A8C4731FD (I'm giving the MD5 because one x64 ISO I downloaded just three weeks prior would never work correctly on my regular PC but the x64 ISO I downloaded the following week has worked perfectly.
Possibly very important: First, I didn't have to use the Setup.exe in the Sources folder - I used the main Setup.exe, I unchecked the option to keep personal files and apps, and I allowed it to download all updates and drivers. No idea if that made any difference, but it's what I did.
The bad news is I think my USB port is busted - I was hoping a fresh Windows install would fix the problem but alas it's probably because the tablet hit the floor last week. Devices get some power but as you can see in the screenshot attached of Device Manager within a minute of logging into the new Windows installation for the first time, all device drivers are installed but when I plug anything into the USB port, I get the "Unknown USB Device (Set Address Failed)" error. Port worked fine 4-5 months and possibly more recently but the tablet fell on the floor last week so guessing that's why it's not working.
It's a good thing the drivers loaded on their own since I couldn't even use a USB keyboard and mouse. I don't know if the MicroUSB port is actually a proper USB port as well, but first, it's wonky already - the power cable has to have pressure coming from underneath it to tilt it a little "down" into the port in order to charge, and so far with any MicroUSB adapter, I haven't gotten any regular USB devices to work through it.
Cheers!
Edit: Forgot to mention that when Windows was booting the first time after the install was complete, it eventually froze on some kind of progress screen (immediately before the OOBE). The tablet screen would still both timeout and go dark and respond to power button presses but would still have the progress circle frozen. I believe I was still able to get to a shutdown menu, if I remember correctly, and shut down the tablet, after which I was able to start it back up and boot fully up without a hitch.
Also note that I had a small fan blowing on the back of the tablet all along
Great write,thanks for sharing
Hi,
How to make a PC Triple Boot Android, Windows 7 and Windows 10?
Thanks
M. Al said:
Hi,
How to make a PC Triple Boot Android, Windows 7 and Windows 10?
Thanks
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You can use programs like Partition Magic
Maay gaad, I thought this is a tutorial thread
sure u have 3 hard disk with different Operating System (maybe)
Wondering
How it could be done.
zanodor said:
How it could be done.
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By partitioning your hard drive and then installing each operating system in each partition then use the Grub bootloader software to allow you to choose which of the 3 systems you want to boot when you power on.
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-to-install-Linux-with-Android-and-windows-10-dual-boot-easy-way
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Hi,
You can also use Virtualbox or other virtualization software to create multiple virtual machine and RUN them on a single machine.
If your computer has good amount of RAM, then you utilize this Virtualbox software. It really works fine. Instead of creating different partition, i think it will be much better option.
Thanks,
Hope it helsp
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sure u have 3 hard disk with different Operating System (maybe)
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I am curious how to do it?
Saenyu67 said:
I am curious how to do it?
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You can use 1 hard drive or 2 hard drives or 3 hard drives, it works the same regardless of how many you use. It's easily done with just 1 hard drive. If you look at my previous post a few posts back in this thread, you will see a link with instructions to partition your hard drive to create a partition for each of the OS's that you want to install, then you install each operating system in each separate partition that you choose to install them in.
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How to make a PC Triple Boot Android, Windows 7 and Windows 10
Windows booting is a simple process. You can easily boot your windows 7 OR Windows 10
you can useing some free tools for booting window 10 and windows 7.
I can explained here how to boot a drive easily. I think it will benefit you. For than messege me personally.
Thank you very much.
mdakashhossain said:
Windows booting is a simple process. You can easily boot your windows 7 OR Windows 10
you can useing some free tools for booting window 10 and windows 7.
I can explained here how to boot a drive easily. I think it will benefit you. For than messege me personally.
Thank you very much.
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You don't understand what they are trying to do.
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for android, you can use "bluestacks" on windows
So you want to use Windows 10, Windows 7 and Android on PC. For that first create 3 or 4 partitions one for windows 10, one for windows 7 and one for android. Install Windows 10 and Windows 7 on separate partitions and you will see that you have a option to boot into windows 7 or 10. now to install Android use a android based OS such as Prime OS and install it on a separate partition. You can use the pre installed grub or you can use grub2win to get all operating systems that you need
mdakashhossain said:
How to make a PC Triple Boot Android, Windows 7 and Windows 10
Windows booting is a simple process. You can easily boot your windows 7 OR Windows 10
you can useing some free tools for booting window 10 and windows 7.
I can explained here how to boot a drive easily. I think it will benefit you. For than messege me personally.
Thank you very much.
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Hey there I'm also interested in this I currently have garuda Linux and can't get Windows 10 on
I've done this for a while, my easiest solution is:
1. Make 3 or 4 partitions. Windows 10, windows 7, data partition, and a Linux partition. (There may more created e.g. a system partition). Dont touch the data partition throughout all of this except for storing your OS ISO, liveboot ISO, other program files etc.
2. Install windows 7 on windows 7 partition.
3. Install windows 10 on windows 10 partition. Can be installed from windows 7. Let windows handle making a windows bootloader which can now boot into windows 7 or 10.
4. Create a live USB in ine of your windows. I've been using Ubuntu but used Fedora for years prior. If you aren't sure if you need x64 then go woth the 32 bit x86 architecture (useful to be able to boot on 32 and 64 bit machines). Now boot up your live USB into Linux and install automatically onto Linux partition. You'll now have a GRUB bootloader which can boot into Linux or into your windows bootloader.
5. Install android emulator. I used Linux as I felt I would get better performance emulating android in Linux, this may or may not be true.
There will things that you might find as a nuisance, for example when I boot into windows 7 from windows 10, I need to boot into the GRUB to windows bootloader, select windows 7 and it reboots again back into GRUB and then into windows 7. Not a big deal unless you want to switch OS a lot. If this is the case, you may want to just emulate to begin with. I have a laptop with *ok* processor and RAM, not the best for emulating another OS.
There is many options - you could even install Linux within windows if you so choose. Ultimately the best path will be based on your knowledge, specs of your PC ( power, ram, disk space, disk type [fora mount of partitions], BIOS/UEFI, etc. The method I laid out is the most automated and easiest method I have come up with. Don't try installing windows on top of Linux, you'll cause a headache fixing everything for your Linux system. But then again, everything I've done in Linux the hard way has helped me to understand Linux better. I've just found that even laying out all of the partitions manually for Linux can be challenging, especially if you only have 1 computer and your data is not backed up elsewhere. Start with a blank machine if you can, and have another computer on hand, then you'll have an easy time starting over if necessary. Theres still so many more options of how to do what you are asking... good luck and happy tripple booting
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I've done this for a while, my easiest solution is:
1. Make 3 or 4 partitions. Windows 10, windows 7, data partition, and a Linux partition. (There may more created e.g. a system partition). Dont touch the data partition throughout all of this except for storing your OS ISO, liveboot ISO, other program files etc.
2. Install windows 7 on windows 7 partition.
3. Install windows 10 on windows 10 partition. Can be installed from windows 7. Let windows handle making a windows bootloader which can now boot into windows 7 or 10.
4. Create a live USB in ine of your windows. I've been using Ubuntu but used Fedora for years prior. If you aren't sure if you need x64 then go woth the 32 bit x86 architecture (useful to be able to boot on 32 and 64 bit machines). Now boot up your live USB into Linux and install automatically onto Linux partition. You'll now have a GRUB bootloader which can boot into Linux or into your windows bootloader.
5. Install android emulator. I used Linux as I felt I would get better performance emulating android in Linux, this may or may not be true.
There will things that you might find as a nuisance, for example when I boot into windows 7 from windows 10, I need to boot into the GRUB to windows bootloader, select windows 7 and it reboots again back into GRUB and then into windows 7. Not a big deal unless you want to switch OS a lot. If this is the case, you may want to just emulate to begin with. I have a laptop with *ok* processor and RAM, not the best for emulating another OS.
There is many options - you could even install Linux within windows if you so choose. Ultimately the best path will be based on your knowledge, specs of your PC ( power, ram, disk space, disk type [fora mount of partitions], BIOS/UEFI, etc. The method I laid out is the most automated and easiest method I have come up with. Don't try installing windows on top of Linux, you'll cause a headache fixing everything for your Linux system. But then again, everything I've done in Linux the hard way has helped me to understand Linux better. I've just found that even laying out all of the partitions manually for Linux can be challenging, especially if you only have 1 computer and your data is not backed up elsewhere. Start with a blank machine if you can, and have another computer on hand, then you'll have an easy time starting over if necessary. Theres still so many more options of how to do what you are asking... good luck and happy tripple booting
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Yes, exactly what I was indirectly suggesting. I've done it the way you describe before, but, alternatively, you can just create 2 partitions on your hard drive then install Win10 and Win7 in those partitions then create a Linux live USB or even install a full Linux distro on a fairly large USB flashdrive/external hard drive(preferably something that has solid state storage, this enables faster booting and performance and allows installing drivers and packages) and then go into BIOS and set your boot priority to boot from USB first, save changes and exit. Then, when you want to boot Linux you just connect your external drive/USB then reboot the device and it will automatically boot Linux without having to use grub and when the Linux drive isn't connected you will be able to boot 10 and 7 via windows bootloader. A little more round about but makes booting back and forth between operating systems.
Droidriven said:
Yes, exactly what I was indirectly suggesting. I've done it the way you describe before, but, alternatively, you can just create 2 partitions on your hard drive then install Win10 and Win7 in those partitions then create a Linux live USB or even install a full Linux distro on a fairly large USB flashdrive/external hard drive(preferably something that has solid state storage, this enables faster booting and performance and allows installing drivers and packages) and then go into BIOS and set your boot priority to boot from USB first, save changes and exit. Then, when you want to boot Linux you just connect your external drive/USB then reboot the device and it will automatically boot Linux without having to use grub and when the Linux drive isn't connected you will be able to boot 10 and 7 via windows bootloader. A little more round about but makes booting back and forth between operating systems.
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I had a project to run Windoes 10 on an SD card, which proved to be more difficult than I tbought it would be. I didn't think it should have been difficult, but it seems software amd hard tales measures to prevent this from being possible / "easy". Linux is quite easy to use a live USB, so I've done that quite a bit (I'd keep a 32 bit live USB on my Keychain). I don't think I was ever able to update drivers or install updates to the live USB, however I didn't make much of an effort too. I basically used it as a save my ass tool, which it certainly did come in useful quite often in the course of my personal/school/work computer needs.
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I had a project to run Windoes 10 on an SD card, which proved to be more difficult than I tbought it would be. I didn't think it should have been difficult, but it seems software amd hard tales measures to prevent this from being possible / "easy". Linux is quite easy to use a live USB, so I've done that quite a bit (I'd keep a 32 bit live USB on my Keychain). I don't think I was ever able to update drivers or install updates to the live USB, however I didn't make much of an effort too. I basically used it as a save my ass tool, which it certainly did come in useful quite often in the course of my personal/school/work computer needs.
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Instead of installing Linux live on USB, you can do a full installation of Linux on the USB the same as you would when installing Linux on hard drive. A Live USB can be setup with a persist partition to provide a bit of storage on the USB but it isn't enough to do anything with that is useful, that is why it is better to just install the distro on USB instead of using USB to run Linux live.