i have a tri-boot system with 2 hard drives. the 1st HD has windows 7 on it. The other HD has both win 8 installed 1st and then win 8.1 installed on it. If I have to reformat the drive with windows 8 on it and install win 8 again will that affect anything or will it be safe to do?
Plz let me know.
thx
Re-install question
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YeOldeStonecat
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Why bother having Windows 8 & 8.1 side by side? There's so little difference between them.
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24giovanni
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Cat, I used gparted live and gave each partition about 120gb space and formatted them and installed each on their own partition, will i be ok if just have to -reinstall programs then?YeOldeStonecat wrote:Might have to run a repair with 8.1...depends how you partitioned it out.
You'll have to reinstall programs that were in 8.
Check out virtualization like hyper-v, virtualpc, xen, vmware.....so much easier than the old multi-booting.
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RaisinCain
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Understood. Just settle with 8.1 in the end.24giovanni wrote:Tony, Never used nor saw win 8 or 8.1 before set them and wanted to see the diff. Love 8.1.
No one has any right to force data on you
and command you to believe it or else.
If it is not true for you, it isn't true.
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and command you to believe it or else.
If it is not true for you, it isn't true.
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