Hi all I used a program in the past to install windows from a current windows install but I cant remember its name and googling it is driving me insane! Could anyone think of the prog I used ? It basically allowed you to select a ISO then point it at the partition or drive you wanted to install to and bingo. Please thoughts before I lose my mind Cheers
Normally one would dism apply the wim to the directory and bcdedit the boot config to add the second install, simply running windows install from boot and using a clean target partition also would do it or start setup.exe from the mounted ISO\sources folder and select the partition to install it on. All should result in a dual boot situation.
thank the internets )))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) You saved me searching for hours lol THANKS BRO Merry Chrimbo Bonus question I install windows from a UEFI setup and I only have 2 partitions ? normally there is meant to be 4 ? I have more than one ssd connected to the PC. Could one of the other 4 partitions be on a seperate ssd ? Thankyou again <3
em I meant I was not messing with partitions it was just the defaults that was confusing me.. Can you explain some about VHDs ? Are they not what are used for virtualbox etc ?
They were and still are, but since w7/server 2008r2 they are bootable as well. Very flexible and handy boot the same disk natively or inside hyper-v/virtualbox a single file to copy to do a full OS backup. a single file to copy to move installs to another system they can reside in a pendrive, mbr hdd, uefi hdd unlimited number of installations can be stored on a single partition, and so on Winntsetup makes monkey proof to use them, but also manually they are pretty easy to manage
To boot natively VHD/VHDx must reside in an uncompressed / not deduplicated FS/Folder BUT Nothing prevent to compress the FS inside the VHD, which is what I currently do (using both NTFS native compression and W10 style LZX compression) Doing so you can have a whole 64 bit system in something like 6GB and a 32bit system in less than 5GB. Obviously if you put your Doc/Img/Download directory outside the OS VHD, which is also handy to have your docs in a single place no matter which OS you boot.