[Couly]

Hi, I am considering dual booting windows 32 bit and 64 bit, each on a separate drive. How do I go about this? can I simply pop in the dvd and choose a drive, and it knows to bring up a dual boot menu? Are there any considerations?
Also, I would like to move my games, is this possible? Do i have to install again, and for steam games download them again?
Also, are SSD drives worth it? Thanks and sorry for noob questions.

 

[SteveThePirate]

Hi,

Yeah you can install two separate OS's on separate drives but why do you want a 64bit and 32bit OS of Win7? Win7 64bit allows you to use 32bit options for installing games etc. anyway so essentially it already does both 32bit and 64bit in the one OS. But if you want to continue then read this post http://www.techsupportforum.com/for...dows-7-and-xp-on-different-drives-629811.html

This I found out for someone just yesterday but they were installing 7 and XP on separate HDD's but i'm sure the principles are exactly the same. As for moving games you would have to re-install the games on the other HDD but you can take the save files from the games folder in C: /Programs/whatever game it is, put them on a flash drive or dvd then copy them across to the exact same folder on the other HDD.

Hope this Helps

Steve

 

[Couly]

Hi,

Yeah you can install two separate OS's on separate drives but why do you want a 64bit and 32bit OS of Win7? Win7 64bit allows you to use 32bit options for installing games etc. anyway so essentially it already does both 32bit and 64bit in the one OS. But if you want to continue then read this post http://www.techsupportforum.com/for...dows-7-and-xp-on-different-drives-629811.html

This I found out for someone just yesterday but they were installing 7 and XP on separate HDD's but i'm sure the principles are exactly the same. As for moving games you would have to re-install the games on the other HDD but you can take the save files from the games folder in C: /Programs/whatever game it is, put them on a flash drive or dvd then copy them across to the exact same folder on the other HDD.

Hope this Helps

Steve

Thanks for your help, I wanted to install separately so I can get my data from the 32 bit and copy to the 64 bit OS. Then I can format it after the install of 64-bit. Or do you think I should just throw everything onto an external? same thing I suppose.

 

[shawnpb]

You can transfer date without installing two OS's if they are just documents, music, videos etc... Plus you can not transfer data from one OS to another OS on the same machine unless one OS can access the other drive or partition. When one is loaded the other is not and the one that is loaded will not see the other OS like it was not there at all. Your best bet would be to install WIndows 7 64bit if you have at least 3GB of RAM installed and your CPU, Video, and chipset supports 64bit.

When you have Windows7 installed 64bit it will see the other HDD(s).

SSD are worth it no moving parts and are not as acceptable to surface errors like the old.
Hdd's also I believe do not need defraged as often perhaps not at all.