Dual Boot Win 8.1 & Win 7

I've just taken delivery of a 15-p011na laptop.
This has Windows 8.1 & a 1TB HDD with 5 apparent partitions seen with AOMEI Partition assistant as follows:
*: WINRE NTFS 650.00MB capacity 421.48MB used
*: FAT32 260.00MB capacity 117.95MB used system
*: Other 128.00MB capacity 0.00MB used
C:Windows NTFS 908.78GB capacity 42.31GB used Boot
D:Recovery NFTS 21.71GB capacity 19.57GB used
I would like to create a dual boot with Windows 7 so that I can copy my Windows 7 (32 bit) drive from my old computer to another partition. I have tried shrinking the size of C partition and then installing Windows 7 32 bit on the unused partition. However, I get an error saying that the drive is GPT and I've read that the only way around this is to convert the whole drive to MBR which can be done on the fly with a utility like AOMEI Partition Assistant.
However, MBR will only recognise up to 4 partitions and I would require 6 with the shrunk C partition so can I get rid of the 3 small partitions or will this affect the drive? I have already made a copy of the restore software onto DVD's.
Failing that perhaps I can boot from my old Windows 7 drive as an external USB drive but any attempt to boot from it just crashes and I've tried using Paragon Adaptive resore but the USB drive isn't recognised.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
TIA.
Geoff.

Paul
Given what the cable does and what device manager looks like it is a driver issue. Their driver. Your best bet is to contact the developer BUT I do wonder if you have tried re-installing the driver in compatibility mode for win 7
To install in compatibility mode do the following:
Right click the installer>properties>compatibility>choose OS
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Make-older-programs-run-in-this-version-of-Windows?SignedIn=1
(works in vista, win 7, win 8, and win 10)
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*[2001]* I'm not sure where you were asking about, so I hope my answer here covers all possibilities you may have meant.
I was using the windows 8 boot. I wanted to chain load to the boot loader in the Linux Partition. It is interesting what the Linux install did with my partition, it created 2 partitions in the unformatted partition. 1 was a bootable partition and the other was the Linux partition. The details were:
2 sda’s (a boot / ext4 and a VolGroup (vg_linuxlocalhost)/ physical volume (LVM) ). In the VolGroup it created 3 lv’s, lv_root, lv_home and lv_swap. I understand that this is all normal.
I followed the documentation note which said "To configure the Red Hat Enterprise Linux boot loader to chain load from a different boot loader, you must specify the boot drive manually. If you chose any of the automatic partitioning options, you must now select the Review and modify partitioning layout option before you click Next or you cannot specify the correct boot drive"
So there was also the note in the documentation that said "Note that the version of GRUB in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is an old and stable version now known as "GRUB Legacy" since upstream development moved to GRUB 2.3 Red Hat remains committed to maintaining the version of GRUB that we ship with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, just as we do with all packages that we ship." I didn't install any bootloaders manually (either the windows 8 OOTB default that came with my machine or the Linux one), I just took the defaults. I'm wasn't sure how to access the Linux partitions once it is installed, so I can't confirm it was the legacy GRUB in the Linux boot partition, but I believe this note is saying that it OL6 does use the legacy grub. I believe GRUB Legacy is version .97.
Q3)
*[asmirnov]* Which version of Linux exactly did you use, was that Oracle Linux or you used one from RedHat directly? What is the kernal version?
*[2001]* I used "OracleLinux-R6-U3-Server-x86_64-dvd.iso.sha1sum" from the mirror site http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/oraclelinux/OL6/U3/x86_64/. According to the release notes at: https://oss.oracle.com/ol6/docs/RELEASE-NOTES-U3-en.html the kernel is
- Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 [kernel-uek-2.6.39-200.24.1.el6uek]. Installed and booted by default
- Red Hat compatible Kernel [kernel-2.6.32-279.el6]. Installed by default
Note: By default, both the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel and the Red Hat Compatible Kernel for the specific architecture (i386 or x86_64) are installed, and the system boots the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel by default. If needed, /etc/grub.conf and /etc/sysconfig/kernel can be modified to make the system boot with the Red Hat Compatible Kernel by default.
Regarding your follow-up point that "Microsoft blocks 3rd party chainloaders from the BCD menu for UEFI machines. We are researching workarounds, none have presented themselves as of yet.", I'm not sure it actually blocks it, but it certainly isn't a straight forward process.
I have actually abandoned my attempt to get the dual boot working. It is a real shame because I wanted to do it for my own satisfaction.
I am now using Oracle Virtual Box as suggested by others, include Dude earlier in this thread. This has given me confidence that I was doing all the right things because the install worked first time without any problems. The virtualization is much simpler and I have had no problems so far.
Fusion
As for your point about the fusion middleware and OL5. I am looking at Oracle SOA with is part of the Fusion brand. I think that the latest SOA components will work on OL6 - but I have yet to try it. Following the certification matrix can be a little difficult. So as I indicated above, my current thoughts are to use the Oracle Virtual Box with Linux r6 u3 and to install the SOA components on that when I get chance. The alternative is using the pre-built virtual machine it has Linux and SOA (it might cover your stack too, or there may be another one that suits you better on the site) http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/soasuite/learnmore/vmsoa-172279.html. Note that this is still on OL5.
I hope this helps.

G780: dual boot Win 7 and Linux

I have a G780 with win7 pre-installed. When I tried to get GNU/Linux Mint Dual-booting, the wifi-driver didn't work and most importantly, I wasn't able to make a new partition because there were already four: the boot-partition, the windows-partition, one labeled "Lenovo" and one "Lenovo2" (or something like this). The hard-disk is formatted in a way so that only four partitions are allowed.
Does anyone have an idea how to solve those problems?
Moderator note: off-topic post moved to its own thread. Subject edited to match content. Was: Re: Dual booting pre-installed Windows 8 and Linux?

Hi Zoltan.
You'll need to operate on the partitions with gparted. It uses its own partition table type, gpt, instead of the DOS partition type, which limits the number of primary partions to four.
I believe that Mint comes with gparted, but you can boot gparted from a live cd or usb. With it you can shrink the Windoze partition to create root, swap and home partitions.
Regards,
KD

Dual Boot Win XP Pro 32-bit & Win Vitsa Ultimate 64-bit on same Hard Drive?

I have a Mac Pro with four HD's. One HD is running 10.5.4 and the another HD is running 10.4.11. The third HD is for Mac data storage. My fourth HD is for Windows. This fourth HD is currently running Windows XP Pro 32-bit edition (the entire drive is a single partition formatted as NTFS). Can I install Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit edition onto this same partition? I would like to be able to use boot camp to start into either Windows XP 32-bit or Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit. I suspect that boot camp can get me as far as the Windows bootloader and then I would need to select which Windows OS to load ino???
Has anyone actually successfully performed such a dual Windows OS installation using boot camp? This boot camp installation is also available with my Parallels installation. I am concerned that changing anything with break my ability to boot into Tiger (which I can right now) or my ability to load my XP pro system using Parallels.
Obviously my reason for wanting a 64-bit Windows system is to support more memory (2GB max limit that is well documented for Windows installs using the Apple Boot Camp BIOS emulator).
Thanks,
Thomas

01Bora wrote:
Then you should be able to drop Vista on there...just a thought.
Hmm I have to say, that's what I was trying to do with my single Xp installation:
-Create a slot for it (partitionned FAT32)
-Then "drop" (install) Xp using the normal Xp installer
The whole process without using boot camp.
It looks like your case, your Xp installation being my OS X, your Vista being my Xp.
But it really didn't work at all. When choosing a partition to install Xp on, I just don't see my FAT32 space. Instead I see the whole drive as an unknown partition (mac partition are unknown to Win).
So really Boot Camp does something else other than just partitionning, partitionning like I would do it with Disk Utility (which I did).
Any idea?
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Dual Boot - Win 7 and Windows 10TP | HDD Prep and layout help

Hi,
This is my first time actually submitting a question in the forum. I've spent so much of my time on here reading for solutions but now hope for some help of my own.
My first attempt at installing Windows 10 Tech Preview (as an additional OS), rather than a 7<10 upgrade went ok until I completed the first platform update.
After that update, neither OS would load and using a Windows 7 recovery CD/start-up repair. It advised the MBR was corrupt.
I attempted many "fixed" found on this site, such as; CMD - MBR[repair,rebuild] etc. System restore was not an option due to the fact that when the RE booted, it could not load drivers for the HDD..possibly? Also, could not locate any existing
Windows installs.
I am now attempting to start again from square one.
I have since learnt the boot/volume table partitioning is different for each OS, MBR/MBT as opposed to GPT(GUID). Could this have caused corruption on the System boot volume (small vol, 600Mb approx).
Should I,
A. Perhaps create a VHD using disk manangment - if so, will the PC boot giving both OS options as previously?
Or B:
Someone please give me a better option :)
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Many thanks in advance.
James

Hi, whatever you decide to do, It's best to install the oldest OS first, in your case, Windows 7. When you boot from your Windows 7 DVD, select advanced installation, from there you can setup your disk partitions for Windows 7 and another partition for
Windows 10. While your at it you can setup additional partitions for your data if so desired. Once you have your Windows 7 installed, you will need to boot from your Windows 10 DVD and select advanced setup so you can tell Windows 10 which other partition
to install into as not to wipe out your Windows 7 installation. Doing this will give you the multi-boot configuration and Windows 10 will install it's own Boot Manager. Hopefully you won't have the problem with the Boot Manager bug Windows 10 has. The
bright side is there is a work-a-round to that problem. Having a Multi-Boot setup gives each OS direct access to your hardware resources. A VHD setup is good for testing software and to see what an OS will be like to use, but suffers from
performance issues for some applications as it is an emulation. The up side of a VHD install, is your system is isolated from any problems you may have with a guest OS plus you can easily delete it if you do not like it or have problems with it. If run
into similar problems in a multi-boot scenario, you actually have to re-format and/or delete partitions and do a re-install to fix problems.

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