catilley1092
Extraordinary Member
- Joined
- Nov 19, 2010
Presently, I have Win 8 CP on a 40GB WD HDD. What I'd like to do is dump Vista, which is installed on one of my better hard drives, slide Windows 7 over beside XP Pro x64, rebuild the MBR & do a repair install to that.
Then, using Mini Tool Partition Home Wizard, copy my Windows 8 install to the other, minus the unneeded 350MB partition, & do a repair to that. This will give me a tri-boot of the three. Does the Windows 8 CP install disk have the repair option like Windows 7 does?
I want to do this for 2 reasons, to get it on a faster HDD (a Samsung HD103SJ), and I'm running out of disk space. Which is preventing me from installing Office 2010 Pro Plus. It's going to be my default OS.
Is this possible (I hope so), or do I need to start over? The drivers and all, I've worked on for several days, I have only limited time to work on this due to my health. Plus, I don't want to lose one of my 3 installs of Avast Internet Security. I don't know if it will trigger a change, it's the same PC, same MB, but don't know how Avast deals with this. Some companies consider a PC to be all of the installs on a HDD, some considers a PC to be all of the OS's installed across all HDD's on the same PC.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Cat
Then, using Mini Tool Partition Home Wizard, copy my Windows 8 install to the other, minus the unneeded 350MB partition, & do a repair to that. This will give me a tri-boot of the three. Does the Windows 8 CP install disk have the repair option like Windows 7 does?
I want to do this for 2 reasons, to get it on a faster HDD (a Samsung HD103SJ), and I'm running out of disk space. Which is preventing me from installing Office 2010 Pro Plus. It's going to be my default OS.
Is this possible (I hope so), or do I need to start over? The drivers and all, I've worked on for several days, I have only limited time to work on this due to my health. Plus, I don't want to lose one of my 3 installs of Avast Internet Security. I don't know if it will trigger a change, it's the same PC, same MB, but don't know how Avast deals with this. Some companies consider a PC to be all of the installs on a HDD, some considers a PC to be all of the OS's installed across all HDD's on the same PC.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Cat