How To Dual Boot Windows 7 and Windows 10 [Tutorial]
582How to Dual Boot Windows 7 and Windows 10. How to easily dual-boot Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10. However this method should work for Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 8 as well.
If you are looking to dual boot Windows 10 with Windows 7 already installed, then this tutorial will resolve your endeavor. You can create this dual-boot system from pretty much any version of Windows. I am going to show you how easy it is to dual boot both these operating systems, you will get a menu where you can choose to boot into Windows 7 or Windows 10.
We will need to make sure we have a partition or another hard drive for our dual boot to work correctly. You can create a new partition on your hard drive using the Windows Disk Management Utility- this is easy to do by shrinking the volume. Make sure you download Windows 10 onto a bootable CD/DVD or USB device using the Media Creation Tool and you should be set.
Background information regarding dual booting:
For most people running one operating system on their PC or laptop is enough, but in some instances it can come in handy to have two separate versions on a PC. This may be due to: specific software that only works with an older release of Windows, simply preferring the way one works, or just wanting to compare the differences between Windows 7 and Windows 10 before committing to an upgrade. Thankfully, Windows is designed with dual-booting in mind, and in this feature we explain step-by-step how to dual boot Windows 7 or 8 and Windows 10.
This dual-boot system can be created from really any version of Windows. For this tutorial we will add Windows 10 to a PC running Windows 7.
You’ll need a copy of Windows to install, and this should be either burned onto a CD or USB stick. Microsoft provides a downloadable version of the Windows 10 ISO on its site, although you’ll still need to activate the OS if you intend to use it permanently. To turn the ISO into a bootable version you should use the Microsoft Windows USB/DVD Download Tool.
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 10 operating system (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, and Samsung.