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- Paragraph 8.7 has been totally rebuilt.

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Edited July 24, 201214 yr by cannie

Latest changes:

- Windows XP has been included into the multiboot options, being the name of the tutorial consequently modified.

- Download links have been updated and fixed when needed.

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Edited September 9, 201213 yr by cannie

Latest changes:

- The whole cloning process has been rebuilt to make it easier and faster, taking profit from recent experiences.

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Edited October 6, 201213 yr by cannie

Latest changes:

- Light error corrections.

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Edited November 10, 201213 yr by cannie

Latest changes:

- Tutorial name was slightly modified to reflect more properly its contents.

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Edited February 22, 201313 yr by cannie

Latest changes:

- Modified paragraph 5 to improve search results.

- Light text corrections.

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Edited April 4, 201313 yr by cannie

Latest changes:

- Fixed error detected at paragraph 6.

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Latest changes:

- Added an easy solution against laptop overheating at paragraph 9.

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Latest change:

- Paragraph 8.9 has been improved to reflect new experiences.

Duplicate Windows 7 on the HDD; add Win7-PE, Win XP or Win 8;

Hey, nice post (that had been promoted to article, congrats! )

.. my only issue is this. There are *far* simpler ways.

=)

P.S.

Just to be clear, I meant: using something like the Oracle VM VirtualBox and/or the VMware Player to launch and maintain multiple Operating Systems.

Edited January 29, 201412 yr by nimd4

Hi,

Virtual machine is of course the best option to run Microsoft and Linux together. You must mind nevertheless that the amount of memory needed for the guest OS will be taken away from the host machine and presented to the guest operating system as virtual computer's installed RAM. Since this moment the memory you give to the VM will not be available to your host OS while the VM is running. The VM may not even be able to start if that memory is not available.

If you only run different Microsoft OS types you have the possibility of using the whole memory at any of them by installing each one at a different drive unit, choosing at boot the one you want from a boot list. As an added advantage you are able to modify anything or to install permanently any new application or update at each one of them.

The VM may not even be able to start if that memory is not available.

Ofc., thanks for the reply!.. RAM hasn't been an issue for so long, that I'd almost forgotten about it! xD

.. Back-in-the-day, used to struggle with one, or two GB of (SD) RAM; ah, those were the days.

Latest changes:

 

- Name of the tutorial has been modified to improve understanding.

 

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Last improvement:

 

- Added paragraph 10 about overheating.

 

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New improvement:

 

Added Linux Lite to the multiboot options.

 

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