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Dual Boot Scenario - Would this work?
I’m running an upgraded Win10 (from Win7) and am pretty happy with it now – except for one device not working (Prolific USB to Serial adapter) which I only use occasionally.
So I was wondering if this would be feasible….create a dual boot scenario and roll one back to Win7. Would this process work?
1. My upgraded version of Win10 has all my existing applications etc. installed, with a disk image of that partition having been saved using Macrium Reflect. Let’s call this W10U
2. Now create a clean install of Win10 on a second partition – lets call it W10C
So now I would have a DualBoot option to start either in the W10U or W10C versions
Now for the bit I’m not sure would work…
3. Could I then overwrite the partition containing the clean W10C with the image of the W10U.
Would the Windows10 DualBoot selection at startup know/care that the Window10 partition it was actually booting into had changed? Or would it happily boot into the Windows10 in that partition?
4. Then roll back this W10U to the original Windows7 version.
So I would now have the DualBoot option to start in either W10U or Win7, with all my existing programs available in both.