Solved How to reformat 1 OS in a dual booted laptop (Lenovo Z500)

[zyrandiel]

Hello Sirs and Madames,

Kindly help out a lost person if you have time.

Situation:

I have a Lenovo Z500 laptop which I installed with Windows 7 Professional (x86) and a Windows 8.1 Professional (x64).
I installed all my work programs in Windows 7 and my gaming environment is at Windows 8.

Problem:

Some of my work programs are starting to have bugs. some Visual Basic stuff with my autocad have not functioned well like before when I first set this up. I want to reformat only the Windows 7 OS without affecting the Windows 8. I already did this once before but I stupidly reformatted my Windows 8 OS in the process.

Question:

Is there a possibility that I can format only the windows 7 without affecting the Windows 8 OS?


Desperately seeking for help,

Zy

 

[KYHI]

First off Label the windows 7 drive (volume)

Second while booted into windows 8 right click and format windows 7 volume
boot into windows 7 setup media and install to the windows 7 volume (partition)
Dual boot win7 and win8.1 - done

 

[zyrandiel]

Hello KYHI,

You mean by labelling the windows 7 drive is by simply right-clicking and naming it WIN7?

 

[hydranix]

Yes, that will set a Volume label.

 

[zyrandiel]

Okay, I will backup everything first then will feed back on what happened. Hope this works =D

 

[zyrandiel]

Hello folks!

Worked great!!! Thanks a lot! This thread is marked as solved now =D Thanks KYHI and hydranix =D

Really appreciate your help =D