Dual booting windows with existing installation


  1. countchocula
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    Dual booting windows with existing installation


    Hi all,

    For various (annoying) reasons, I would like to dual boot two windows installations on my laptop. Currently, Windows 10 Enterprise is installed. Would it be possible to create a new partition from which I could boot a new installation of windows 10 for education? I would then like to boot by default to the new installation (education), but would like to occassionally boot into the original installation of windows 10 enterprise...

    I'd like to allocate as little space to the enterprise installation as possible. My C drive is 1TB.

    thanks in advance...
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  3. Paul Black
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    Hello @countchocula,

    countchocula said:
    For various (annoying) reasons, I would like to dual boot two windows installations on my laptop. Currently, Windows 10 Enterprise is installed. Would it be possible to create a new partition from which I could boot a new installation of windows 10 for Education? I would then like to boot by default to the new installation (Education), but would like to occassionally boot into the original installation of windows 10 Enterprise...

     Dual-Boot Win 10 with Win 10

    This best and most straight forward method is explained in detail here by NavyLCDR . . .

    > Dual-Boot Win 10 With Win 10

    If you want to return to Single-Boot, then this Tutorial may be useful . . .

    > How to Remove and Uninstall Windows 7, 8, or 10 from Dual Boot PC.

    I hope this helps!
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  4. countchocula
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    Thanks Paul! Great info, and solves my original post.

    A followup if you don't mind: Would there be any way to clone the current windows install on my C drive to a USB, and then booting from that USB drive on occassion? I would then just do a fresh install on C.

    Thanks again!
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