Dear friends, today I want to tell you about one computer. No, we won't need a virtual machine this time. In one of the articles on this site, I wrote how to create additional logical drives on a computer, that is. If you haven't read it yet, check out this article, it will come in handy today. Of course additional Operating Systems we will install each on its own disk (partition, new volume).

And so you can immediately create, let's say on disk "D", three more additional partitions. I did just that so as not to get confused during the installation of operating systems. I allocated 35 GB for one additional section, 30 GB for another, and 25 GB for the third. Why different volume? I assigned a planned role to each system, for example, a system on a 25 GB disk is intended for me only for games, I even deleted almost everything on it system programs, the drivers on it are installed only those that are used by games, there are a minimum of programs in startup. You can create sections and at the time, how exactly to do this, read on this site - the admin clearly explained everything.

There are no tricks in the installation of several operating systems. Everything is done in the same way as when installing one system, that is, when installing the OS, select a partition, format it (or do not format it). Enter the computer name (I gave each system a different name). The system is installed. It remains to add only a few details... You can switch from system to system only by turning it off and on, or restarting the computer. When you turn on the computer, you will see a black screen with the inscriptions of your installed systems Windows 7 or windows XP or other versions.

Also, in addition to various Windows options 7, you can install on others windows partitions XP (if you're going to install XP, you'll need to install XP first, then Win 7), Mac OS, OS/2 Warp, Linux, etc...

The system that you installed first in this list will be the last, which was installed last in the list will be the first. You can navigate through these inscriptions using the arrow keys. What system do you need now, select it, press "Enter". If you want the download to constantly occur with the operating system you have chosen, do the following.

Open the Start menu --> Computer --> Properties --> Advanced system settings, select the "Advanced" tab. Click on the "Settings" button.

In the "Download and Recovery" window, click on the arrow and select the operating system that will boot by default, that is, the boot will occur constantly from the system that you have selected.

Naturally, each system will have its own registry. On each system, you need to set up your own system recovery, you need to install drivers and antivirus for each, you need to activate each one, install the updates you need.

Which system are you on this moment, it will call itself the "C" drive, changing the letters of other drives, except for the "D" drive, its letter will remain unchanged. Probably it makes no sense to install on all systems the same programs. I have 80% of the programs installed on the "D" drive, so that if necessary, to use this or that program without switching between systems, I copied the shortcuts from the desktop to other systems.

I just opened disks with other systems, users -> administrator -> desktop and dragged shortcuts there with the mouse. Almost all programs after that began to work on other systems. Well, that's all, now you know how to install two, three, or four operating systems on one computer. Good luck to all!

Well, that's all, now you know, it's easy and simple. Good luck to all!!!

Good day to all!

Most modern laptops come preloaded with Windows 10 (8). But from experience I can say that many users (so far) like and are comfortable working in Windows 7 (some people don't run old software on Windows 10, others don't like the design of the new OS, others have problems with fonts, drivers, etc.).

But in order to run Windows 7 on a laptop, it is not necessary to format the disk, delete everything on it, etc. You can do it differently - install Windows 7 as a second OS to an existing 10-ke (for example). This is done quite simply, although many have difficulties. In this article, I will show with an example how to install a second Windows 7 OS to Windows 10 on a laptop with GPT disk(under UEFI). So, let's start sorting out in order ...

How to make two from one disk partition (we make a partition for installing a second Windows)

In most cases (I don’t know why), all new laptops (and computers) come with one partition - on which Windows is installed. Firstly, this partitioning method is not very convenient (especially in emergency cases when you need to change the OS); secondly, if you want to install a second OS, then there will be nowhere to do it ...

The task in this subsection of the article is simple: without deleting data on a partition with pre-installed Windows 10 (8) - to make free space another 40-50GB partition (for example) for installing Windows 7 into it.

In principle, there is nothing complicated here, especially since you can get by with built-in Windows Utilities. Let's consider all the actions in order.

1) Open the utility " Disk Management"- it is available in any version of Windows: 7, 8, 10. The easiest way to do this is to press the buttons Win+R and enter the command , press ENTER .

2) We select our disk partition on which there is free space (I have 2 partitions in the screenshot below, on a new laptop, most likely, there will be 1). So, select this section, click right click mice on it and in context menu press "" (i.e. we will reduce it due to the free space on it).

3) Next, enter the size of the compressible space in MB (for Windows 7, I recommend a minimum 30-50GB partition, i.e. at least 30,000 MB, see the screenshot below). Those. in fact, we are now entering the size of the disk on which we will later install Windows.

4) Actually, in a couple of minutes you will see that the free space (the size of which we indicated) was separated from the disk and became unallocated (in disk management - such areas are marked in black).

Now right-click on this unallocated area and create a simple volume there.

5) Next, you will need to specify file system(choose NTFS) and specify the drive letter (you can specify any that is not yet in the system). I think that it’s not worth illustrating all these steps here, just press the “next” button a couple of times there.

Then your disk will be ready and you can write other files to it, including installing another OS.

Important! Same for splitting one section hard drive into 2-3 parts, you can use special utilities. Be careful, not all of them break HDD without damaging files! I talked about one of the programs (which does not format the disk and does not delete your data on it during such an operation) in this article:

Create a bootable UEFI flash drive with Windows 7

By the way, you can find out what markup is on your disk (MBR or GPT) in this article: . The layout of your disk determines the settings that you need to set when creating bootable media!

For this case, I propose to use one of the most convenient and simple utilities for the record bootable flash drives. We are talking about the Rufus utility.

Quite a small (by the way, free) utility for creating bootable media. Using it is extremely simple: just download, run, specify the image and set the settings. Further - she will do everything herself! Right ideal and good example for utilities like this...

Let's move on to the recording settings (in order):

1. Device : Specify the flash drive here. to which the ISO image file with Windows 7 will be written (a flash drive will be needed for at least 4 GB, better - 8 GB);
2. Partition scheme: GPT for computers with UEFI interface (this is important setting, otherwise it will not be possible to start the installation!);
3. File system: FAT32;
4. then specify the boot image file with Windows 7 (check the settings so that they are not reset. Some parameters may change after specifying the ISO image);
5. Press the start button and wait for the end of the recording process.

Setting up the laptop BIOS (disabling Secure Boot)

The fact is that if you plan to install Windows 7 as a second system, then this cannot be done unless Secure boot is disabled in laptop BIOS.

Secure boot is a UEFI feature that prevents unauthorized operating systems and software from running when the computer is turned on and started. Those. roughly speaking, it protects against everything unfamiliar, for example, from viruses ...

In different laptops, Secure Boot is disabled in different ways (there are laptops where it cannot be disabled at all!). Let's consider the issue in more detail.

1) First you need to enter the BIOS. For this, most often, the keys are used: F2, F10, Delete. Each manufacturer of laptops (and even laptops of the same model range), the buttons are different! The login button must be pressed several times immediately after turning on the device.

Remarque! Buttons for entering the BIOS for different PCs, laptops:

2) When you enter the BIOS - look for the BOOT section. In it you need to do the following (using the example of a Dell laptop):

• Boot List Option - UEFI;
• Secure Boot - Disabled (disabled! Without this, you won't be able to install Windows 7);
• Load Legacy Option Rom - Enabled (support for loading older operating systems);
• The rest can be left as is, by default;
• Press the F10 (Save and Exit) button - this is to save and exit (at the bottom of the screen you will have the buttons that you need to press).

Secure Boot is disabled.

Remarque! You can read more about disabling Secure Boot in this article (several different laptops are discussed there):

Starting Windows 7 Setup

If the flash drive is recorded and inserted into a USB 2.0 port ( USB port 3.0 is marked in blue, be careful), the BIOS is configured, then you can start installing Windows 7 ...

1) Reboot (turn on) the laptop and press the boot media selection button (Call Boot Menu). These buttons are different on different laptops. For example, on HP laptops, you can press ESC (or F10), Dell laptops- F12. In general, there is nothing complicated here, you can even experimentally find the most frequent buttons: ESC, F2, F10, F12 ...

Remarque! Hotkeys for calling the Boot Menu in laptops from different manufacturers:

By the way, you can also select bootable media in the BIOS (see the previous part of the article), correctly setting the queue.

The screenshot below shows what such a menu looks like. When it appears, select the created bootable USB flash drive (see screenshot below).

2) Next, start the usual Windows installation 7: welcome window, license window (to be confirmed), installation type selection (choose to experienced users) and, finally, a window will appear with a choice of the disk on which to install the OS. In principle, there should not be any errors at this step - you need to select the disk partition that we prepared in advance and click " next«.

Where to install Windows 7.

Remarque! If there are errors, like “this partition cannot be installed, because it is MBR ... "- I recommend that you read this article:

3) Then all that remains is to wait until the files are copied to the laptop's hard drive, prepared, updated, etc.

4) By the way, if after the files are copied (screen above) and the laptop is rebooted, you will see the error “File: \Windows\System32\Winload.efi”, etc. (screenshot below) - so you did not turn off Secure Boot and Windows cannot continue the installation ...

After disabling Secure Boot (how to do this - see above in the article) - there will be no such error and Windows will continue the installation in the normal mode.

Secure Boot Related Error - Not Off!

Default system selection, timeout setting

After installing the second Windows system - when you turn on the computer, you will have a boot manager that will display all the available OS on the computer to let you choose what to download (screenshot below).

In principle, this could be the end of the article - but the default parameters are painfully inconvenient. First, this screen appears every time for 30 seconds. (5 are enough to choose from!), secondly, as a rule, each user wants to choose which system to boot by default. Actually, this is what we will do now ...

To set the time and select the default system, go to the panel Windows controls by the address: Control Panel/System and Security/System(I set these parameters in Windows 7, but in Windows 8/10 - this is done the same way!).

When the "System" window opens, there will be a link on the left side " Additional system settings"- it needs to be opened (screenshot below).

Control Panel/System and Security/System/Options options

Next, you can select the operating system that is loaded by default, as well as whether to display the OS list, and how long it actually displays. (screenshot below). In general, set the parameters for yourself, save them and restart the laptop.

PS

With this, the modest mission of this article is completed. Results: the laptop has 2 OS installed, both work, when you turn it on, you have 6 seconds to choose what to download. Windows 7 is used for a couple of old apps that didn't work on Windows 10 (although you could get away with virtual machines:)) and Windows 10 for everything else. Both operating systems see all disks in the system, you can work with the same files, etc.

Exists great amount situations where a PC user needs a second operating system. For example, one OS simply cannot cope with all the requests of the owner (there is no corresponding software, etc.). The question of how to install two operating systems arises by itself.

How to install a second operating system?

A computer configuration that uses several operating systems is called multiboot. When the computer starts to start, the user will be given a choice related to booting the OS. It looks like this:

In order to install a second OS on a computer or laptop, you should allocate a separate disk space for it.

Important. First of all, the oldest version of the operating system is installed, and later the new one. This is due to the fact that the old OS simply does not see the files of the new one and overwrites them during installation (that is, deletes them).

Backups

Before installing the second OS, you need to do backups all important data. This may be related to the following:

• Technical errors. Unfortunately, computers make mistakes and there are cases complete removal all information;

• Human factor. A person, especially if he installs software for the first time, makes mistakes. For example, accidentally install a new system on the partition where the old one was, thereby uninstalling absolutely all the information without a chance to return it.

Install the OS on a dedicated partition or another hard drive

Before installing directly, make sure that all programs have completed their work correctly, copies of all necessary files have been made, and data has been saved on various external media. In addition, you should play it safe and find an activation key (if you have a license). It usually consists of 25 characters and is located on the disc box.

The pirated version of windows can be hacked using the appropriate activators downloaded from the Internet. Fortunately, there are many such programs on the Internet now.

To install two or more operating systems, you must turn on the PC in order to boot current version Windows. Next, you need to perform the following action:

• After the current OS is fully loaded, go to the installer of the second system and run it;
• If the system disk is to be used, then when you start the computer, the installation should launch and start automatically;
• If you use a USB drive for installation, you must insert the USB flash drive into the slot. The installation procedure usually starts automatically. If not, then go to "My Computer", go to the appropriate USB drive and manually turn on the installer (setup.exe).

At this stage, problems can only arise if the drive or disk is damaged. Now let's move on to the process itself:

Important. You should not install a new version of Windows on a partition with a previously installed one.

Actually, the installation of the second operating system is not much different from the first. The main thing: in no case should you install two different windows in the same partition, since there is a creation of inoperability of the entire system. In this case, an ordinary user will not be able to fix his computer and will have to be sent to the service.

A video that will clearly show how to install a second OS on a PC:

Conclusion

It is quite convenient to work on one computer with several operating systems. In particular, if you really want or need to use Linux or just more old version windows, then installing a second system will only benefit you, but it is worth remembering that the presence of several operating systems can affect the performance of the computer, so do not overdo it.

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How to install two (or more) versions of windows

Often, only one operating system is installed on the computer, but if you wish, you can install two windows operating systems, and select the one you need when turning on the computer. According to the recommendations, you must first install the older operating system, and then the newer one, for example: first install windows 7, and then install windows 10. What you need to do:

• Install the first operating system: if you already have windows installed on your computer - good, let's move on! If not, install windows and configure;
• Free up space for the second operating system: if all your disks are busy, you need to shrink one of them so that space is freed up and we can create another partition for another operating system;
• Installing the second version of windows: we install the second operating system, and at the beginning of the installation you need to choose a custom installation, not an update! During installation, we select the unallocated disk space that arose after compression in the previous paragraph.

This was a short plan, following which, when you turn on the computer, you can choose which windows to boot. Moreover, all files will be common to both operating systems.

Install the first version of the operating system if it is not already installed:

Let's say we have a clean laptop (or desktop computer), first we install the first operating system there:

2. When dots go and Press writes any key- press Enter, the installation starts. Choose the language, accept the license, and choose custom installation!

3. If there is no important information on the disk - delete the old ones and make new ones, or select one and install windows there;

4. Install drivers;

5. Install programs;

If the operating system already exists, we compress one of the disks and free up space for the new operating system:

1. As it was written in the article earlier, you must first defragment the disk. Press Win + R, enter dfrgui.exe (if you have windows XP, then dfrg.msc) => defragment the desired volume (may take a long time);

2. Open Disk Management by pressing the Win + R buttons, enter diskmgmt.msc

3. Select the drive that has the most free space and compress it. That is, right-click on the disk - shrink volume

How to install two versions of windows

4. Choose how much space you want to free up and click compress.

How to install two versions of windows

Install the second operating system:

In principle, you need to repeat almost all the steps as in the installation of the first system, that is:

1. When you turn on the computer, select the boot method from the disk;

2. When the dots go and writes Press any key - press Enter, the installation begins. Choose the language, accept the license, and choose custom installation! If you choose to update, the new operating system will be on top of the old one!

How to install two versions of windows

3. When prompted to select a disk for installation - select the place that was freed during compression, we can simply select it and click next, or you can select unallocated space => click Create => and create a disk of the desired size. No need to put windows in an existing partition! Choose only an unoccupied seat!

How to install two versions of windows

4. Install drivers;

5. Install programs

Selecting an operating system to boot and changing boot options:

Depending on which operating system you installed second, the screen will look different, for example, I installed windows 8.1 as the second system and the selection screen looks like this:

How to install two versions of windows

And in other cases, it can be black, or another color, which, of course, is not important 🙂

You can go into the boot options and select the default boot operating system, the time to determine the choice, or automatic download etc. To do this - click on Computer with the right mouse button => properties => Extra options system => in the advanced tab, the item Boot and restore, select Options => configure the desired boot options

How to install two versions of windows

If you want to install another operating system, then do it on another partition. But I would not recommend a lot of them, if you want to conduct experiments on different operating systems, then it is better to use virtual machine. That's all for today! Good luck to you 🙂

Read also:

How to remove unnecessary from the context menu;

How to change the windows 7 login screen;

How to make the browser fast again

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How to install two operating systems on one PC?

Hello! Very often a situation arises when we lack one operating system installed on our PC. To solve this problem many users install two operating systems on their PC at once - usually it is windows XP and windows 7, because it is very convenient and makes it much easier for us to work on a PC in case of any unforeseen situations. And a variety of situations can arise, for example, if one OS “covered itself” and stopped loading, then we can boot from another OS or one OS became infected with viruses, then we can easily boot from another (backup) system, cure our computer or recover. However, not all users know how to install two operating systems on one computer, especially for beginners or dummies. Therefore, in this article we will try to understand this issue.

How to install two operating systems on one PC

Usually, when we buy a computer, there is one hard drive inside the PC or laptop, and it is divided mainly into two logical ones - this is the drive (C :), on which the operating system is already installed (windows XP or 7) and the drive (D :) where we store our files: movies, photos, music, and more.

So, we cannot install the second system on the disk (D :), since it will be formatted and all your important data will be deleted. And on the disk (C:) there is already an operating system, and although two systems can be installed on one partition, I do NOT recommend you. Nothing good will come of this!

As a result, there is only one option left - to create another logical partition on your hard drive. Here it is the answer to the question of how to install two operating systems. You just need to create an additional partition for another operating system. And you can create an additional partition on your hard drive using special programs to work with hard drives, such as Paragon Partition Manager and others.

So, what you need to have in order to install two operating systems on one computer. Firstly, you must have installation (boot) disks with operating systems to install on your PC, and secondly, at least three partitions on your hard drive.

Let me put it into practice.

After creating another partition, you should have three logical drives - this is drive (C:), (D:), and (E:). On the drive (C:) we install windows XP, on (E:) - windows 7, and on the drive (D:) you will store all required files(movies, photos, music, etc.). This is how you can install two operating systems on your computer and go into any of them.

If you want to install two systems, windows 7 and XP, then you need to install them as they come out. The ideal way to install two operating systems on one computer is to follow the installation sequence. You must first install the older one - windows XP, and then the younger one - windows 7. In a word, we put XP first, and then windows 7.

And it is better not to break this installation sequence. I'll explain why in a moment.

The boot manager in windows 7 knows the principle of booting all previously released windows and becomes the boot manager for all previously installed operating systems, in our case windows XP. In this case, before loading, a menu for selecting any of the windows appears. And the download occurs without problems from the selected operating system.

Another case, when windows XP was installed after windows 7, the XP bootloader will simply overwrite the "seven" bootloader, since it does not know anything about it, and you will only have one operating system loaded - this is windows XP. That's why you shouldn't break the installation sequence.

But what if you already have windows 7 installed on your PC and you want to install windows XP additionally? In this case, instead of the "seven" we install XP on the disk (C :), and on the other disk we install windows 7 already, so as not to violate the order of precedence of operating systems. However, this is not very convenient and takes a lot of time.

In such cases, it makes sense to use a different installation method - you can use the EasyBCD 2.0.2 program, which uses standard bootloader, it is free and can be easily removed without consequences. You can download it on the official website. The program requires an installed package net framework 2.0, if we don't have it, download it.

So, we already have windows 7 installed and after that we install windows XP as the second one. After that, we, in fact, will stop loading windows 7. Next, we install the EasyBCD 2.0.2 program and run it.

View Settings - the initial window of the program. The EasyBCD 2.0.2 program should immediately find the windows XP operating system, let's move on.

Edit Boot Menu - the choice of booting operating systems, also shows one windows XP.

Add and Entry in the right part of the window, select in the drop-down windows menu Vista / 7 and click the Add Entry button and add the windows 7 operating system to the Edit Boot Menu.

There are now two operating systems in the initial View Settings window.

Edit Boot Menu, windows 7 also appears here.

In the Edit Boot Menu - the choice of loading operating systems, by default, windows XP is loaded first, the second one will now be loaded with windows 7 if we wish, the boot order and the default selection time of 30 seconds can be changed. We just have to go to the Bootloader Setup tab and in the MBR Configuration Options check the box as shown in the figure - on the Install the windows Vista / 7 bootloader to the MBR item. Next, click on the Write MBR button, by doing this we enter information into the MBR boot record that the partition with windows 7 will be loaded by default.

If we uninstall the EasyBCD 2.0.2 program itself, then the operating system selection menu will remain and windows 7 will boot first by default. In the Edit Boot Menu, you can optionally delete windows XP during boot, it will not be in the selection of operating systems , but with windows 7 I advise you not to experiment like that.

Installing windows XP after windows 7 on one computer should be successful. Now we have two operating systems in the windows boot manager - windows XP and windows 7. The previous version of windows shown in the figure is our windows XP OS.

That's all! I wish you good luck and hope that this article helped you solve the issue of how to install two operating systems on one PC or laptop. 😎

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How to install windows XP as a second system after windows 7/8/8.1/10

Most often on the Internet there is an instruction on how to install windows 7 or windows 8 as a second system when windows XP is already installed on the computer. This is a relatively simple task that even an inexperienced user can handle, since a newer operating system always retains the bootloader of the old one and automatically creates a menu in which the user can choose which system to boot - the new one or the previous one at boot. In this article, we will consider the reverse situation - when windows 7 or 8 is installed on the computer, and the user wants to install windows XP in parallel. The piquancy of the situation is that after installing windows XP, the previously installed windows 7/8/8.1 will stop loading and its bootloader will have to be restored.

If you have a desktop computer, then it would be even better to use an SSD for modern windows 7/8.1, and a classic hard drive for XP. In this case, you can temporarily disable the SSD with windows 7 / 8.1 so as not to accidentally erase anything from it, calmly install XP and then proceed with setting up the boot order.

METHOD 1. Installing windows XP with a connected hard drive with windows 7/8.1/10 or installing windows XP on another partition of the same physical disk

This is a common situation faced by most users. In addition, this method is suitable for inexperienced users who have several physical drives, but do not want or cannot turn off the hard drive with windows 7 / 8.1.

Attention! This method not suitable for SSD. If you want to install WIndows XP and 7/8.1 on an SSD, you will need to first prepare the disk for XP with the Alignment Tool, then install windows XP before you can install windows 7/8.1.

Step 1 Prepare a partition for the second operating system.

Create a partition on your hard drive where you will later install windows XP. If you need to partition a disk or redistribute space between existing partitions, use free program MiniTool Partition Wizard Home (Download from the official site).

Important! Prepare partitions EXCLUSIVELY in windows 7/8.1/10 BEFORE installing windows XP! We strongly DO NOT recommend partitioning the disk in the windows XP installer! All you have to do in the XP installer regarding partitions is select desired section and perform a quick format!

Let's say you have three partitions on your disk:

1. Bootable (capacity 100MB for windows 7 or 350MB for windows 8/8.1)

For windows XP, you create a fourth partition. Where it will be located and from which section to cut off the area is up to you. Of course, it is more logical to arrange the sections like this:

1. Boot
2. System, where windows 7/8/8.1 is installed.
3. Partition for installing windows XP
4. Disk with user data.

Although you will format the partition in the windows XP installer, you can format it in WIndows 7/8 so that you can set the label. And the label will help you not to make a mistake in choosing the right partition in the windows XP installer.

Step 2 Install windows XP

Boot from the installation CD or bootable flash drive and install windows XP on the prepared partition. Be extremely careful when choosing a section. Focus on its size.

Select a partition and press Enter:

Select Format Partition as NTFS (Quick):

Further steps for installing windows XP do not differ from normal installation xp.

Once the installation is complete, boot up windows XP and install all required device drivers. Set up network and internet (if needed).

Step 3 Restore the bootloader of the first operating system and add an entry for the second system of the previous generation to it

A. Preparatory stage. Downloading support software

Download EasyBCD 2.2: https://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/

Click Register at the bottom of the page:

To download, just like on behalf of your Facebook account or subscribe by email:

The program requires Microsoft .NET 2.0 SP2 Framework. You can download it from the Microsoft website http://www.microsoft.com/ru-RU/download/details.aspx?id=1639:

1. Install Microsoft .Net 2.0 SP2 Framework.
2. Install the EasyBCD program.

B. Windows 7/8/10 bootloader recovery

During windows XP installation windows bootloader 7/8/10 got stuck. Therefore, the first thing we need to restore it.

Launch the EasyBCD program.

1. Go to Installing BCD.
2. Select the partition where the windows 7\8 bootloader was before installing windows XP. In most cases, this is the very first partition, 100MB in size for windows 7 or 350MB if your first system was windows 8 \ 8.1.
3. Select bootloader type - windows Vista/7/8 in MBR
4. Click the Overwrite MBR button

After that, the windows XP bootloader will be overwritten, and a new type of bootloader will be installed instead.

Restart your computer. Now instead of XP you should boot your windows copy 7/8.

Now our task is to add a second entry to the bootloader - to boot windows XP.

B. Adding a boot windows records XP to bootloader windows 7/8/10

Install EasyBCD in the same way again - now in windows 7/8/10.

Launch the EasyBCD program.

1. Click Add Entry
2. Select OS type windows NT/2k/XP/2k3
3. Select a system name. This is the name that will be displayed in the menu when loading. We recommend removing the word Microsoft.
4. Click the Add button:

Now go to the Current Settings section and check that the second boot entry has been added:

After that, you can click the Edit boot menu button, choose when the menu with a choice of operating systems is displayed at boot, and rename the OS names. If you make changes, do not forget to click on the Save button at the end:

METHOD 2. Installing windows XP with a disabled hard drive with windows 7/8.1/10

This method, as we wrote above, is more suitable for desktop computers and only some laptops where it is possible to connect multiple storage drives. The advantages of this method:

1. You don't risk accidentally erasing already installed windows 7/8.1/10 while installing windows XP.
2. If you disconnect any of the physical drives, you will be able to boot from the remaining drive, because in this method the boot loaders are located on different physical drives. You may only need to adjust the boot order in the BIOS.

Step 1 Turn off your computer. Disconnect the data cable from the hard drive where windows 7/8.1/10 is installed

Step 2 Turn on the computer and install windows XP on the remaining hard drive using the most in the usual way- as if this windows will be the only one. Install all required drivers.

Step 3 Turn off the computer and connect the windows 7/8.1/10 hard drive back to the old SATA port.

Step 4 Download windows 7/8/10. If you did not change the boot priority in the BIOS, by default you should boot from the same disk into your old windows 7/8/8.1.

A. Installing software for editing bootloaders

Install Microsoft program.Net Framework 2.0 SP2 and EasyBCD (described in Method 1).

Now the only thing we need to do is to add to the windows 7/8/8.1 bootloader an entry about windows XP installed on another disk.

B. Addendum boot record windows XP to bootloader windows 7/8.1/10

Do the following:

• go to the Add Record tab;
• select windows OS;
• select windows type XP;
• specify the desired system name in the OS selection menu;
• click the Add button to add.

After that, restart your computer, select windows XP from the menu and make sure that windows XP boots from your hard drive.

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How to install 2 (two) operating systems on one computer? 7 windows XP + windows 7

How to install 2 (two) operating systems on one computer? windows xp + windows 7

windows XP + windows 7, or how to install two systems on one computer

Latest operating system from Microsoft Windows 7 has gained a lot of both fans and opponents. But she left practically no one indifferent. At the same time, almost everyone who dealt with it, at first, had a chance to face various problems due to incompatibility of programs, and many had a desire to return to the "good old" XP. But also with new system not everyone is in a hurry to leave. And so many users feel the need to have two operating systems on one computer at once, so that they can use them in turn, switching between them as needed. But since windows 7 is a new system, sometimes there are some difficulties when trying to create a multi-boot configuration (and you still need to know how to do it correctly). And if you are among those users who, after installing windows 7, still need XP, then this article is for you ...

Let's start with a warning. If there is any data stored on your hard drive that needs to be saved, then further instructions, in the parts related to repartitioning the disk into sections, you will need to make small adjustments, since they are designed for a blank hard drive that does not contain any information or stores data that can be deleted. If the existing information needs to be saved, then we HIGHLY recommend that you take care of repartitioning the hard disk even BEFORE you start installing operating systems. And use for this purpose any advanced third party programs, for example, Acronis Disk Director Suite (paid program). Or use some Live-CD with Linux (for example, Ubuntu) - almost all of them have the GParted program (free, more powerful than the Acronis utility, but often slower). In any of these programs, you need to create two empty MAIN partitions formatted in NTFS. These partitions must be at the beginning of the disk (on the left in graphic map in these programs), and the partition with the data to be saved should be moved to the right - closer to the end of the disk. We will install operating systems into these 2 partitions - they will become, respectively, disks C and D. And then, during installation, you DO NOT need to touch them - neither repartition, nor format - just install each of the operating systems in the partition prepared for it. Well, now the installation itself.

Configuring the order of checking boot devices

We go to BIOS settings in the Advanced section and look for the Boot Device Priority item. Here you need to install first boot device(First Device) optical disc drive, and the second - hard drive. This is necessary so that when you reboot, you can start the computer with boot disk and get into his menu. We save the configuration by pressing Save & Exit in the main BIOS menu (or by pressing F10 followed by answering the question with the Y key).

If your BIOS version is slightly different, then you will have to look for the desired section by analogy. At the same time, be guided by the word \ "Boot \" (\"Download \").

ATTENTION

The BIOS is categorically NOT designed for "crazy hands". Therefore, you should not touch anything there without a clear understanding of what you are doing! This is exactly the case when it is better to think seven times and break once.

The first step can be skipped if your computer itself can read a disk that has long been forgotten in the drive when it reboots. This can usually be determined if windows startup the disk in the drive itself starts to spin up.

We start the installation of windows XP

Looking ahead, I will say that first we will install windows XP. Not vice versa, but first XP! Therefore, we insert the installation disk with this operating system, and restart the computer. If suddenly, when loading, we see an inscription of white letters, something like \”Press any key to boot from CD…\”, then, without hesitation, we immediately press any key on the keyboard. This is how we will start booting from this installation disk. While the inscription is on, you will have 5 seconds to press any key. If you don't have time, the computer will start from the hard drive, and the XP installation will not start. Will have to reboot again.

Each system has its own section

As mentioned above, before installation, two partitions must be allocated on the computer's hard drive. While traveling through dialog boxes Installer You will be prompted to select a partition to install the operating system. We will ignore this and create partitions ourselves, first deleting all the old partitions by pressing the D key, and then creating new ones in their place by pressing the C key, and specifying the size of the first partition we need (in megabytes). This will be partition C. Next, we have an unallocated area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe disk - select it and press the C key again, and without really delving into the details of the events, immediately press ENTER (because we don’t need to change the size of the second partition). So we get partition D. Although, if the size of the hard drive is quite large, then it makes sense to allocate some specific volume for disk D, and leave all the remaining space unallocated - you will deal with it later, creating partitions on it according to your needs.

ATTENTION

The above procedures are for a blank hard disk that has no data, because deleting partitions will make all information disappear. If there is data on the hard drive that needs to be saved, then it is IMPOSSIBLE to carry out these gestures. Return to the beginning of the article and create, as described there, two clean main partitions using special programs, and only then proceed with installing operating systems, without repartitioning or formatting anything, but simply install each OS in the partition prepared for it.

Installing windows XP in partition D

After all the manipulations with the hard disk partitions, we proceed to the installation itself, specifying partition D as the location for windows XP. Exactly so, and not otherwise, so that in the future there will be no problems with choosing and loading the desired operating system. After that, we carry out the installation to the end as usual.

Such actions provide the user with:
Continued work with the computer when one of the operating systems (OS) fails;
Operational recovery of the damaged version, using the means of the preserved one;
Working with familiar programs in the old OS until the issues of their compatibility with the new OS are settled.

Of these advantages, the last one requires explanation. Windows users know that each a new version produced a little "raw". In the initial period of its operation, some familiar programs are either incompatible with it, or have narrowed functionality until the compatibility problems are completely resolved.

How to install two Windows on one computer so that multiboot, i.e. the ability to select an OS when turning on the computer, provided the user with the listed advantages and minimized the disadvantages? The prerequisite is installation of different Windows versions to different logical drives of the computer.

Other issues of correct installation and operation will be discussed below in relation to different combinations Windows OS versions.

To exclude incorrect operation of the installed OS, they should be placed in different sections of the hard drive; in other words, on different logical drives. If both operating systems are installed on a "clean" computer, then the easiest way is to separate disk space partitions directly during the installation of the first operating system.

How to install Windows 7 and Windows 8 on the same computer

A multi-boot system with versions 7 and 8 provides the user with the ability to work with two operating systems, helps to quickly restore performance if one of them is damaged, and eliminates the need to urgently study a very specific and not everyone likes version 8.

At the same time, multiboot systems do not save much high speed Windows boot 8.
The first, of course, should be installed earlier Windows 7, then Windows 8, whose installation process is similar to Windows installation 7. The issue of installation on a particular disk is not fundamental.

You can install multiple operating systems on almost any computer. To do this, you need to know its minimum system requirements. For example, to install Windows 7 as a second system, you need about 10 GB of free disk space. While for version 10, you need a little less. This is explained by the optimization and compression of system files.

Before you install multiple operating systems, carefully review their requirements and make sure your computer meets them.
AT this manual we will consider two questions: how to install Windows 7 as a second system on a computer with Windows 10 and vice versa.

Preparing for installation

If your computer already has several partitions (Local drives C, D, E), then you can safely skip this step. For example, if you have a “ten” on “C”, then it is best to put a “seven” on “D”. To do this, format the drive after making backup copies of important data.

If the computer has only one partition ( local disk C), then you need to create an additional one. For this:
1. run the system utility "disk management" through the "start" menu;
2. select the drive whose free memory will be used for the extended partition;

3. in the context menu, select "shrink volume";

4. as soon as the utility finishes analyzing and compressing free space, enter the size of the future partition (it should not exceed the maximum available);

5. after you click "shrink" a new "unallocated disk space" will appear;

6. click on it and click "create a simple volume";

7. here you will be asked to determine the amount of memory for the new partition (for example, if you want to create several disks from it);

8. Assign a new letter to it and format (all default options).

The drive is now ready to install multiple operating systems.
The guide is further divided into two parts:

• for those who want to install Windows 7 as a second system on the top ten.
• for those who want to install Windows 10 second OS on the "seven".

Windows 10

The first thing to do is download the *.iso image from Windows 10. You can find the "top ten" for free on the official Microsoft website in the "downloads" section. To do this, click on the "download tool now" page and wait for the download of the special MediaCreationTool utility to complete. It is with its help that we will create a bootable USB flash drive with Windows 10.

The main convenience of the utility is that with its help you can immediately upgrade to "tens", download * .iso image (for installation on another computer). At the same time, we do not need other third-party software to create a bootable USB flash drive.

Launch MediaCreationTool, accept the terms license agreement. In the next step, select "create installation media for another computer" and select the required OS options.

Pay special attention to the choice of processor architecture. You can find out the bitness of your computer by right-clicking on "computer" - "properties" - "system type".

Creating a bootable Windows 10 flash drive

To immediately create a bootable Windows 10 USB flash drive using the MediaCreationTool utility, select USB Flash Drive. To do this, you will need any flash drive with at least 4 GB of memory. An SD or mini SD (if you have an adapter) card is fine.

Attention! All files on the USB stick will be deleted, so be sure to back them up.

After that, the program will prompt you to select the media on which the OS will be installed. Wait for the download to finish.

Creating a bootable Windows 7 flash drive

You can download *.iso image from Windows 7, for further writing to a USB flash drive, from a torrent tracker. In this case, during the installation process, you will need to enter a key to activate it (or activate a trial version).

If you have left old disk with the "seven", then feel free to proceed to the next stage.
To create a bootable USB flash drive with Windows 7 and install it on Windows 10, you will need special utility to write the image to a USB drive (or disk). We will use UltraISO (the demo version of the program allows you to do this). For this:

1. run UltraISO program and in the "file" menu on the toolbar, select "open";

2. tell the application the path to your *. iso image and click "open";
3. now find on the toolbar the item "boot" - "burn image";

4. Specify the "USB HDD" image recording method and format the flash drive;

5. Wait for the operation to complete and proceed to recording the image by clicking the "burn" button.

As soon as the program finishes recording, bootable flash drive will be ready and you can proceed to the final stage.

Installing a second OS

Before proceeding with the installation, change the BIOS settings so that the device boots from a USB drive. To do this, restart the computer and as soon as the screen lights up, press a key on the keyboard to launch the BIOS menu.

As soon as you get into its interface, find the “Boot” menu (boot) in it, here you need to change the boot order “Boot Priority” and put USB in the first place (if the installation will take place from a USB drive or CDROM if from a disk) and to the second - HDD (hard disk).

Save the changes, insert the flash drive into the computer and restart the computer. If you did everything correctly, then you will see a welcome windows window with a suggestion to install the OS. If the computer boots normally, double-check the Boot Priority order.

All further actions equally suitable to install any windows version as a second OS. For this:
1. configure basic OS settings (language, license agreement);

2. on the "installation type" screen, you must select "custom";

3. the system will prompt you to select the disk on which the installation will be performed;
4. here you need to click on the partition we created, it will be designated as “unallocated disk space” (the disk with the OS will be listed as the main one);

5. after that, continue the installation in the normal mode.
This completes the installation of Windows 7 with the second system. Now, after turning on the computer, you can select the OS to work with.