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Used Acronis to restore a Win7 Ultimate image to my old HP laptop--the one I have been running Win8 Pro on. I had forgotten to deactivate a Photoshop installation earlier and wanted to do so.
Decided to do a Win7 Ultimate/Win8 Pro dual boot just for the heck of it using an upgrade DVD. FYI, the Win7 I used is not the qualifying OS I forfeited in the first place when I clean installed Win8 with the upgrade DVD.
Anyway, to do the dual boot, I shrunk the Win7 partition--which left the newly created partition with only unallocated space. I used custom installation, of course. When done, I was surprised to find that the 350 MB system reserved partition had not been created. No big deal, of course, but is this result to have been expected given what I did?
The dual boot works just right. At this point, I am simply choosing with OS to boot to on each startup--which doesn't happen often. Win8 bootloader is smoooooth. It's kind of fun seeing Aero on the old lappy again.
Decided to do a Win7 Ultimate/Win8 Pro dual boot just for the heck of it using an upgrade DVD. FYI, the Win7 I used is not the qualifying OS I forfeited in the first place when I clean installed Win8 with the upgrade DVD.
Anyway, to do the dual boot, I shrunk the Win7 partition--which left the newly created partition with only unallocated space. I used custom installation, of course. When done, I was surprised to find that the 350 MB system reserved partition had not been created. No big deal, of course, but is this result to have been expected given what I did?
The dual boot works just right. At this point, I am simply choosing with OS to boot to on each startup--which doesn't happen often. Win8 bootloader is smoooooth. It's kind of fun seeing Aero on the old lappy again.
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My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Win7 Ult on DIY; Win8 Pro on MBP/Parallels; Win7 Ult on MBP/Boot Camp; Win7 Ult/Win8 Pro on HP
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- DIY Rig; MacBook Pro (MBP)/Parallels/Boot Camp; HP Pavilion dv6500t Laptop
- CPU
- Intel i7-2600K (sometimes OC'd to 4.8 GHz)
- Motherboard
- ASUS P8P67 Deluxe Rev B3
- Memory
- 16 GB Corsair Vengeance
- Graphics Card(s)
- EVGA 570 SC
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Gateway
- Hard Drives
- Dual Boot:
Win7 Ult RAID 0 on OCZ Revo x2 and
Win7 Ult RAID 0 on Caviar Black SATA 3's
- PSU
- Cooler Master Silent Pro 1000W
- Case
- Cooler Master 932 HAF
- Cooling
- Zalman CNPS9900MAX-B CPU Fan
- Keyboard
- Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500
- Mouse
- Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500
- Internet Speed
- 20 Mbps Download/2+ Mbps Upload
- Other Info
- Pioneer Blu-ray Burner/DVD Burner