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Dual booting trouble

Hitman123
By Hitman123
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How to I create a dual boot with my existing windows 8.1 and add windows 10 but without losing data from windows 8.1(main OS). I just want to dual boot windows 10 (testing) and windows 8.1 ( games, Normal gaming stuff, my main OS) without losing data

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Hitman123

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Create a partition on your hard drive and install 10 on your partition?

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So do I use a 3rd party partition maker???????

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Hitman123

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Actually I didn't think about virtual machine, good idea

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Hitman123

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Don't I have to use a boot loader

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Hitman123

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Nope, virtual machine is a self contained computer, will safe you sooo many issues

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Don't I have to use a boot loader

Windows has a built in bootloader. You can choose which operating system you want to use when you boot your computer.

To partition your drive, search up 'partition' or 'disk management' in windows and open the application that comes up. From there you can shrink the size of your partition and create some unallocated space where you will install Windows 10.

 

Honestly, if you don't know how to partition a drive, I'm not sure if you should go around installing Windows 10. It's possible something could go wrong. Just putting it out there - I'm not responsible for anything that happens to your computer. Everything you do is at your own risk.

I actually couldn't underclock my 5 year old GPU to make it as slow as a next-gen console.

#pcmasterraceproblems

~Slick

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