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I did a or what I thought was a dual boot set up on my main machine only to have got it very wrong and it now boots into 8 only.
I have brought my Samsung 1TB 103J Spinpoint out of semi retirement and got it up to date with security etc etc .
However I would like to go back and use the Seagate as it is a 6gbs device and a lot less noisy and a tad faster than the Samsung.
I do not know if should completely format the Seagate shut down take out the Samsung to avoid any more muck ups set the Seagate as the master again reinstall 7 then backup from a system image (did one just before I went awry) and go to the dual boot option when it has been sorted. I'm not worried re the time this will take as it has been my fault all along and will wear that.
I am fairly sure of where I went wrong now with the dual boot option - starting it from within the partition (C) which was running 7 instead of the new partition I created (F) which is why I wasn't getting Brinks tutorial instructions right.
I have brought my Samsung 1TB 103J Spinpoint out of semi retirement and got it up to date with security etc etc .
However I would like to go back and use the Seagate as it is a 6gbs device and a lot less noisy and a tad faster than the Samsung.
I do not know if should completely format the Seagate shut down take out the Samsung to avoid any more muck ups set the Seagate as the master again reinstall 7 then backup from a system image (did one just before I went awry) and go to the dual boot option when it has been sorted. I'm not worried re the time this will take as it has been my fault all along and will wear that.
I am fairly sure of where I went wrong now with the dual boot option - starting it from within the partition (C) which was running 7 instead of the new partition I created (F) which is why I wasn't getting Brinks tutorial instructions right.
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