How to Dual Boot Windows 7 and Windows 10
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- Опубликовано: 20 авг 2024
- How to Dual Boot Windows 7 and Windows 10
Before you begin I recommend you do a full backup of your data.
If you are looking to dual boot Windows 10 with Windows 7 already installed, then this video is for you. 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 in by shrinking the volume .
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Excellent video keeping windows 7 as long as possible but it's great to have windows 10 all updated and customized and ready to go.
Great job Bri.
please let me know how to setup my compute that has two hard drives each own operating system to show a menu that enables you to select what drive you want to boot and not have to press f8 every time i will appreciate it . thanks
Karel De jager uhhhhh... that’s a different subject.....
Upgrade. Seriously. Its for your own good.
@Ahmed odex with a decent pc and an ssd your fine
Without doubt, the simplest and most well thout-out tutorial I have ever seen. No rambling, no mistakes that need to be reversed, no unexpected errors...just what I needed. Congratulations, Brian - you have another subscriber. Thank you.
I love the rolling cube logo. Also I've seen similar videos showing the same steps but yours is much more professional.
MATE I LOVE YOU!!! I wanted to keep windows 7 for my older much loved games but needed windows 10 for work and I was at a very sad low point in my life thinking I had to remove 7 😂 so thank you very much!
Surely did enjoy the lesson video. I'll proceed to doing the same thing with my system. Have a freshly installed and formatted TB drive. Thanks and Jesus loves you, John 3:16-17 (KJV)
God be with you sir
I did not install the 2 OS into dual boot mode, but installed them separately in 2 HDD and SSD, but no way I could boot up the Win7 even if I chose to boot up the OS in the selected HDD, I set it up in the BIOS CMOS to boot up the Win7, so I assumed the new hardware system always choose to boot up Windows 10 in the SSD for no matters which HDD I had chose to boot up the OS with !
Great tutorial. Exactly what I am in the process of doing myself-already have Windows 7 and installing Windows 10 on a separate Drive.
Did u do it?
@@A_Guy_with_Ribbon Yes I did. It is working just fine.
@@powerflex500 do u recomand this on ur main pc just for fun?
@@A_Guy_with_Ribbon I did it because a lot of the newer programs are no longer supporting Windows 7. I prefer windows 7 but I wanted to have Windows 10 as an option. Perfect example. I use Turbo Tax to do my taxes. This year, it no longer supports Windows 7. Luckily I already had installed Windows 10 and was able to install and complete my taxes.
@@powerflex500 taxes?im 13 XD,and hope ur doing well there
Fantastico ! Even at this late stage ''April 2020'', Ive been forced to look at a solution to keeping my beloved W7 but needing W10 for new programs. Thank goodness I found your Video ! Thank You !
followed your instruction - to the tee - I now have a dual boot system. thanks man
Hey Brian - thanks for taking the time and effort to product this excellent, easy to understand and follow, video tutorial on how to properly install both Windows 10 and Windows 7 on a single hard drive for dual operating systems. Keep up the good work!
The main reasons to use windows 7 over windows 10
1). Windows 7 is stable
2). It is compatible with a lot of programs that worked for windows xp
3). It does not spy on you or force computer breaking updates on you. ( yes I am talking about the windows ten update 1903)
4). You still have control over your computer and not Microsoft. So no spyware
5). It is a great operating system
The main reasons to use windows 10 over windows 7
1). Windows 10 is stable (no bugs for me)
2). It is compatible with all of the legacy programs that i've tested so far
3). Windows 7 also spy on you since 2015 with the same telmetry processes
4). The UI is much better
5). It is a great operating system
true
Windows XP is better than both and Windows 7 works with SOME XP games and forget it with 10!
Nathaniel Bolden i agree 100%
@@nathanielbolden5053 hm, some work on 100 too but anyways both are not bad
to be blunt, I accidentally forgot that I installed 2 windows 10, instead of windows 7 and 10, and it's nice to see a generous guy to tell everyone who doesn't know that it's possible to dual boot...
I did this but instead of installing windows 10 I installed windows 7 and it worked. Thanks!
Thank you for the Tutorial! I successfully Installed Windows 10 on Windows Vista computer. :D
@Queen do you have another way we can talk? I can help you.
@Icy Tech if their system itself is damaged, they should either actually downgrade or reset their pc.
For God sake because my brother won’t even let me
Ji
Hi
Excellent video, thank you Britec. As the deadline approaches for the end of Windows 7 support I need to get my butt in gear with this, and there's no way I want to lose my loved Windows 7 OS!
EDIT: After creating a new partition for Windows 10, I noticed that it was a Logical Partition, not a Primary Partition. I used the program by EaseUS called Partition Master Free to change this
I feel like the only one here who is doing this the opposite way, installing windows 7 alongside windows 10, but this still works great! Thanks!
Let's all agree that this is the best dual-boot ever! Nice video mate.
Dual Boot Steps:
1. Get ISO File
2. Disk Management
3. Shrink Volume
4. New Simple Volume
5. Change Boot Order
Is there a way to make this dual boot screen appear if you install two windows on two disks? Or do you have to select the disk you want each time from the bios?
Are Windows 7 support UEFI?
@@TranceElevation did you find an answer for this? I'm with the same question
@@pacmanlp8876 This boot screen will appear once the system detects that there's a secondary OS installed.
@@xvxv6975 i think no because when i try to install on new laptop they stuck on loading and red glitch
I missed the bit about installing on two separate Hard Drives.
Why did you capitalize hard drives
I can't explain it in words that how much it helped me Bri, You are doing a great job, keep it up.
Please consider, Brian, a video showing how to dual boot, where the C:\ is on the PC as Windows 10, and Windows 7 is on an external drive. Thanks for all your great tutorials, Jan.
Since posting my comment I can answer yes to my own question. I now have a dual boot Windows 7 and 10 system. Thanks again for the video upload.
Damn 2k19 still wtched this is so easy to follow thanks
2021 and still helpfull
@@xMario10 2481 and still helpful
Thanks so much Britec09, I'm seeing a lot of questions about this install and maybe my experience with the GPT and MBR part of it can help someone as well. I couldn't make my transition to Dual Boot to work with a fresh install of Windows 10 Pro on an new SSD with GPT and my existing Windows 7 on a 7200rpm HDD with original MBR on my laptop with 2 separate hard drives (Yes, my laptop has 2 HDD slots and I couldn't switch my original HDD from MBR to GPT). So when I Simple Initialized my new SSD (remembering to name it "Windows 10" like he suggested) I chose MBR and it worked great. When I booted into the new Windows 10 Pro hard drive, I was pleased to see that my original Windows 7 containing HDD showed up as a C/: drive, and I could access all my downloaded content through Windows 10. Sweet! I did not know that. I love that I can go back and forth between operating systems and use some of my old programs that I can't get any more when I'm booted on Windows 7. Thanks for this video Britec09
after watching this video novice can install window 10 easily..... many many thanks sir
got my win7U working alongside crappy Virus10 thnx man :) now i can actually use my bought programmes again :)
i have win 10 on my hdd , i am buying sdd to install windows 7 on it , i dont want to loose anything from win 10 ( i have all projects there ) i can not migrate data cuz , projects won't open accurately on new windows ,
i want to know is that possible to run both 10 and 7 at once , i tried months ago , all i know hard disk must be format to different types for each windows .
Same here
Well i lost windows 10 in the process. I guess.
After trying to boot in the bios i can no longer boot into win10 and the hard drive doesn't appear in the bios. My guess is that the hard drive is dead, weird.
Nope it doesn't need to be different format They both use NTFS What is different is the bootmgr.ini file and the windows/Users folder
@@hsmreu did you find a solution ?
hi checkmark
This was way harder than it should have been for me, but after more that 24hr of trouble shooting and downloading, i finally can play the fucking game i payed for while still being able to have windows 7.
My issue is, I have win 7 on one drive and 10 on another drive, how do I have the option to choose win 10 or 7 without going into bios everytime.
Thanks. Now I can do this with my win 10 ho but dual boot Windows xp becuase i like messing with it and some stuff runs better on it even with Windows 10 compatibility mode
BTW: dual boot can also be with Linux and Windows 10
Really? :)
You are the best! Been trying to get this right for my lab for hours and it wasn't until I watched your video. Thanks again!!!
I'm getting a new pc soon, it's used and has windows 10. I would split the partitions when i am installing windows 7. thanks for the tutorial, really helped!
ill be getting windows 7 ultimate and windows 10 pro cuz i use will be gaming on it
this is actually pretty awesome, I have upgraded to Win10 a couple of months ago and I actually miss Win7 plus some older programs I use seem to actually have better compability with Win7 since they are slower on Win10 =/
My bootloader to choose windows 7 or 10 looks way different..
Hi I do dual boot mine I have a problem . I can't choose start up is not showing some choices if I want to boot up at this os or this os .. As in nothing how to fix ?
Very helpful video, thanks. Maybe this will save someone some time in the future - 7 can't be loaded to GPT disk, it needs MBR. WIN 10 can't be loaded on MBR, it needs GPT. This is fine if you are using 2 separate disks but it isn't possible to partition a single harddrive for dual booting which is what I was wanting to do. Guess I'll add another hard drive to be able to dual boot.
Than how he did it on same drive . answer pls
Hi, I have MBR and Windows 10 works fine.
Very nice video.. M from india 🇮🇳 and you??
Very informative video and thank you for uploading. Is it possible to do the reverse by already having Windows 10 installed and retrospectively installing Windows 7 or XP etc?
Did you done it?
Cause I have same case
Yes. I now have dual boot Windows 10 and 7. If you follow the instructions in the video it works perfectly
If we have other partitions can we access them through the newly installed windows?
This also works with Windows 98. I am happy to play some DOOM95!
It's eight years later I hope you're still here may I please ask a question… I ran Windows 10 on my Windows 7 partition once and I noticed that Windows 10 was polluting my Windows 7 Partition… It got so annoying I quit doing the dual-boot. The question is do you know or have an idea what happened? If I try again I don't know if it will make any difference but I would use a separate hard drive and hope it doesn't happen again. I wish I could tell you more but Windows 10 was literally dumping stuff into my Windows 7 partition. Anyway I hope you're well and your video is still serving all of us thank you
I have Windows 10 currently. How can I also get Windows 7 on my PC?
Yeah I want know this too. Cause I play NR2003 and im involved in many online leagues and I want to use Windows 7 again
***** I have loads of old PC games which won't play on Windows 10. Civ 4 for example. Its my favourite PC game and I can't even play it :(
donwload the iso an boot on pendrive
The Veneficus.
You've got it?
or you know if you can?
Police-1836 tj I have Windows 10 right now. I also want Windows 7.
I didn't know that you can have both microsoft windows operating systems.
You can have all ms os at once
Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for posting this excellent tutorial.
Thank you!
I'm using this to setup a dual boot Windows desktop / Windows Server 2019 for learning. It's working good so far!
Its not giving me the second option
Did you find some answers?
Same here
@@Alplxyz you probably turned off the display list. Search startup and recovery and enable "time to display list of os"
I have Windows 10 on a brand New NVME M.2 1TB drive I installed Yesterday. Then I have Windows 7 on another SSD drive that I have been using for quiet some time.
How do I dual boot from two separated drives and pick the drive I want to boot without going into bios each and every time to make my selection.
Thanks for your response.
EL EVO *no responses*
@@tacosaregood5038 Nope :o/
Cant do it any more cuz windows 7 is dead
@@545hawk No, Mine is alive and well. I owe Microsoft money, so they gave me 1 extra year of life 🤪
gosh i have this issue to, I hope someone could answer our query
It is worked in my PC THANK YOU
That's very useful. I had assumed they would clash, like in the days when HAL used to get deleted.
“Its now giving me an option to change my language im going to keep it at united kingdom”
BvN Character Station according to him yes!
Now I have 7 and 8.1. Thank u a lot!
Thankyou Brian for the Rufus method, took a couple of attempts but I got there!
Wouldn't it be better to let Windows Setup format the extra partition (or drive) itself?
It likes to make a ~100MB volume for management stuff, as well as the Windows partition.
I guess this only matters when using an extra disk instead of partition.
Nice walkthrough. Turning spyware stuff off is a good tip too.
[help] i cant see 6:22 "choose an operating system" , now straight on to win10 , i want my win7 back! please help.
did you find an answer ?
Realy, did you. I have same problem.
Thanks bro finally I can play GTA IV on my pc
Thank you Brian! This allows me to run older programs on my New PC that came with Windows 10.
wow I didn't think it was going to be that easy but it is Thank you for this tutorial
Why when i clicked to Windows 7 in dual boot menu their go my toSystem Repair??
are you UEFI?
@@rxgtv no, i don't have UEFI. I fixed this problem about 2 years ago :) Thanks!
@Britec09. Hi Brian, great video by the way. Just wanted to ask if it works exactly the same for PC's that have 10 Pro installed but I'm gonna be adding windows 7 Pro to the same HDD/SSD. I believe it is, just wanted to make sure prior to starting this whole thing. Thanks again for the great video. It was really helpful, especially for people who haven't made dual boot PC's before. I have & it's really cool.
I am going to use my old PC and try to dual boot windows 10 (already installed) with windows 11, wish me luck!
Edit: Got it running in a virtual machine, I love it and I can't wait for the official release, I'm gonna buy a few copies for me and my friends when it officially releases, I love macOS and its my favorite but I also love Microsoft and windows, thank you Microsoft for being such a big part of my childhood!
Hi I’m using windows 10 can you make videos to show how to dual boot back to window 7 please love the videos
i have windows 10 installed on my ssd can i install win 7 on my secondary hdd?
yes just dont install it on your drive where your orginal OS is installed
Unable To Start Setup,HELP!!!!!
Jort
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Lucas Luchi Gonsalves did you made it? im curious how you solved it
on 2:35 is not respoding what i do?
MaxGamer HD Because Shrink Volume
I have a 2TB and happened to have Windows 10 Home and bought Windows 10 Pro as an upgrade. Having the room and the inclination I dual booted both on one hard drive. It makes an ideal setup to test things like Classic Menu and other things before transferring to Win Pro my main Volume. also if I do have a BSOD or other crash I have a backup already installed.
Nicely done! My Win7 was getting a bit long in the tooth and tax reporting is no longer supported with 7, so Win10 on the box is very helpful and I can retain all the legacy programs.
DUDE I HAVE WINDOWS 10 PREINSTALLED ON MY LAPTOP CAN I DUAL BOOT WINDOWS 8 OR 7 PLEASE REPLY
Yes sure
im having an issue when i shrink there is no allocated volume.
Excellent video. The Windows 10 setup you used must have been customized as evident to misspelled words.
Thanks Britec this helped me dual
boot win7 and 10
Hi sir ? It is same way to go back windows 7 from os 10 ? I want to go back os 7 😢
just restart window and select your window which you wants to run on your computer
@@sarvotamsharma108 how ? Bootloop ? Do you have video tutorial for that ?
Can you have like two windows 10 operating systems running in the same hdd or ssd?
yes, but why would you do that? One partition for hacking and the other for normal stuff?
Had done what was done in the video above. But when I choose windows 7 and get to the login screen. The mouse and keyboard doesn't work. Have tried changing Legacy USB to disabled, enabled and auto. One time the mouse and keyboard decided to work again and every other time it didn't.
My computers very very laggy. so I thought down grading to windows 7 would do the trick. thanks :)
This is all very incorrect. Both Windows 7 and Windows 10 (nowadays) install an extra 3 partitions in front of the disk. The way you've done it is only possible in a virtual environment. As is shown often by others, since W10 wants to install using GPT, and most Win7 users have it on an MBR disk, this causes all kinds of messy troubles. Not to mention the required BIOS settings for newer boards are completely sucky for dual boot options on an NVMe SSD for example. In short: It's a complete mess, all thanks to the shit dev team 10 of Microsoft, where they can't even fix a broken bcd with their 'Startup repair', while every dumb user can see both *active* Windows partitions by commandline. Apparently only idiots work at Microsoft these days.
Oooh, I dislike Windows 10 a little aswell, yet it's nice to have since it's the newest OS by Microsoft and everything just wants windows 10
You shouldn't call them "idiots". It was completely intentional. They want to make dual booting as difficult as humanly possible so that the average person won't risk screwing up their system to try an alternative OS.
Intentional or not, they're still idiots for doing so. The "average" person will still screw up the system. It always happens.
I think you misunderstood, although I could have been more clear. What I meant was, the average person won't risk setting up any kind of dual boot for fear of breaking their computer. Doing so seems highly technical to the average person. And very few people are willing to outright delete their windows installation. My point was, the design is intended to intimidate people into not giving alternative operating systems a try. All in the name of keeping them "safe". Its a cut throat business decision to ensure their (effective) monopoly on the market share.
According to microsoft you "can" dual-boot by installing Windows 10 first. Windows 7 can be installed using a GPT layout afterwards. But i think this is only limited to 64-bit versions of Windows 7.
WINDOWS 7 ENDING 31 DECEMBER 2019
RIP
No, its in 2020
@@matrix668 January 14, 2020. Both wrong.
xd
Wut
im literally trying to upgrade like Microsoft recommended but...
it wont let me...
let me update pls
i tried 4 methods, none worked
Funny enough, this helped me dual boot Windows Vista and XP
If you run into this error: "windows cannot be installed to this disk. the selected disk has an mbr partition table. on efi systems, windows can only be installed to gpt disk" open your system bios when you power on the pc and change the boot option 1 drive from uefi to the sata version of your dvd/bluray drive.
Thanks for the video, but who needs Windows 10 when he has got Windows 7?
djcreeper5 People who wanna play Forza Horizon 3 :D
and dx 12 games :/ sad i like windows 7 better
Lol true
VR
gopro software only works on windows 10 now.
how to dual boot without losing files?
By installing the new os either on a separate hard drive or a separate partition on the same hard drive.
Lucky Lusterio u will not lose ur files on the windows 7 or any window u have right now
I Got Windows 10 And I Wanna Install Remix OS too.
WILL I LOOSE MY FILES IF I DID WHAT THE VIDEO DID?
PLEASE REPLY ME!
no
I did it coincidentally as I installed win 10 over win 7, and i found out it went over one of my two partitions, so now have both systems working to switch between
Thanks I installed 10 and I also have 7. I also get the choice to choose operating system at startup :)
How the hell do you have a floppy disk in this day and age?
THE GAMING EXPERT Using roblox mods xddddd
roblox mods? your series?
hes using virtualbox or some emulating software
THE GAMING EXPERT it is always in bios. even if you don't have it.
@nizzy storm, there is his thing called an external floppy disk reader
RIP Windows 7 Ends 1/14/2020
I love the way he says 16-ish gigs to run :))
I have 848 GB free of 920 GB on hard drive using Windows 7, but how do I decide to divide memory on dual boot for Windows 10? Also how can I correct memory if figure out wrong?
Haha I'm gonna triple boot windows 7, windows 10, kali Linux.
Mostak yup.
is there a limit to how many OS's you can have on a system? :P
C B idk I just got these 3 idk if it'll work for more.
Quadro booting is also possible.
using legacy bios there is a limit of 4 partitions, using uefi you can create more than just 4 partitions (i don't know how much!) (Edit: you can create up to 128 partitions using uefi.)
I have 340GB free of 465GB, is it enough? xD
Great video Brian was thinking of doing that as i do not want to loose my windows 7 just yet , cheers Brian :)
+johnpatus You're welcome.
Thanks a million for this valuable video. Exactly what I was wondering could be done!
OMG
-Riot
I have been wrestling with this issue for a couple of days trying to get the dual boot to work. I think I stumbled upon something that may work for others.
As some have experienced, I followed the steps in this video and in the end had no option to boot from multiple OS's after I finished. I could see the partition that housed the Win7 OS however it would not boot to that drive (volume) or offer the option.
I tried several things to boot up to that drive to no avail. I wanted to preserve the OS because there is a program I use that isn't ready for Win10 yet. I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier but I guess it was not obvious until after...I hate when that happens.
So here's the thing that worked for me; while booted up in Win10, I put the Win7 original install disk/usb medium into a drive and rebooted. As the computer was starting up I pressed F8 until I can get into F12 or some pressing F12 may work while rebooting. When I was able to get into the setting screen I changed the bootup drive to the USB/DVD (whichever you have available and contains the Win7 medium) saved the setting and let the system continue booting up. When the Win7 install screen came up I selected [Repair System] (or some text like that, I don't remember the exact phrase) at the bottom left. It rebooted the system and repaired the boot file to include Win7. A message will come up indicating that it found that Win7 needs to be added to the boot file. That solved the problem and now I get the option to choose which OS to open up at startup.
Hope this helps others having this issue.
Sounds good. Thanks for sharing. WIll try over this W.E.
Thanks worked perfect. Very simple follow along! You're the best
thankyou very much bro. .well explained , i have learn a lot from you
Easy, clear, nice video. Congratulations Britec09
I Managed to install Windows 7, Windows Vista, And XP When He Installs The Operating System And He Tries To Do This.
Thanks for sharing. A rather short, but very good explanation.
I'd call this a bullshit-less guide, instead of rather short one ;)
that's a good idea, when you install all editing software on one system and the games and recording stuff onto the other system
can you do this with windows 10 as the main OC and windows 7 as the one that you're installing?
This guy is legend
Thanks
@@Britec09 still giving hearts after 5 year...
Could you show how to Dual Boot Windows 7 and Windows 10, not the partioning way, but with the two seperate drives please?
Yes, I also want that method.....
I did not install the 2 OS into dual boot mode, but installed them in separately in 2 HDD and SSD, but no way I could boot up in the Win7 even if I chose to boot up the OS in the selected HDD, I set it up in the BIOS CMOS to boot the Win7, so I assumed the new hardware system always choose to boot up Windows 10 in the SSD for no matters which HDD I had chose to boot up the OS with !