Torchizard Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 (edited) Firstly, to clarify the most common replies that this type of topic gets, I am aware of virtual machines (and I do use them) but this is something I would like to do on real hardware and yes, I do have separate licenses for each OS. I would like to get my laptop to dual-boot two instances of Windows 7, one 64-bit and one 32-bit (for compatibility with 16-bit apps). When I searched on the internet, I got mixed results, some saying you can and some saying there are compatibility issues between these OSes and then others insisted that the OP use a VM. I would like some opinions here, is it possible to dual-boot 7 x64 and 7 x86? Edited October 30, 2013 by Torchizard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 The "compatibility issues" likely have to do with permissions on any shared volumes. If you keep these truly separate, or have a shared volume that is FAT32 or a network share, you probably won't run into that problem.Using a VM depends on what kinds of programs you are going to be playing. If you are wanting to run 16bit games, a VM isn't an ideal solution at least in my experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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