Cara Install Windows 7 Dual Boot Dengan Windows 8

1. Cara Install Windows 7 Dual Boot Dengan Windows 8

Cara Install Windows 7 Dual Boot Dengan Windows 8

Considerations before you start: A) If you purchased your Windows 8 computer: 1 - Installing Windows 7 may void your warrantee. Call the PC manufacture and ask!!! 2 - Installing Windows 7 may render your Windows 8 “Recovery Partition” useless. Before you start, contact the PC manufacture and obtain the “Recovery media” for Windows 8. Also ask the manufacture’s support team about activation when using recovery media as your new computer may no longer have a product key code sticker, Windows 8 uses a BIOS imbedded product key for activation. B) If you have built your own computer: 1) Verify there Windows 7 device drivers for your motherboard’s make and model available from the manufacture’s driver support download site.

There is a good chance there are Windows 7 drivers and in fact less of a chance there are a full set Windows 8 drivers for older motherboards. More recently released boards will support XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. The assumption however is that you already have Windows 8 installed as your first operating system on the disk drive. Conceptual overview: 1) This article is based on a home built computer using a 1TB hard drive.

2) The free version of EaseUS Todo Backup will be used to create an image backup of the drive to an external USB drive before starting. Todo supports both Windows 7 and Windows 8. 3) You need to shrink the Windows 8 partition to make room for a Windows 7 partition. For this task you will use Windows 8’s ‘Disk Management’. To access Disk Management, open the ‘Desktop’ and press the Windows key + X, then select ‘Disk Management’. 4) You will need to disable Windows 8’s ‘Fast Startup’ option before you install Windows 7.

3) Shrink the Windows 8 partition to create unallocated space for use when installing Windows 7. Right click on the Windows 8 partition (C:) and select the ‘Shrink Volume’ option. Now enter a value for the amount of space to shrink in MB. For the 931GB partition in this example I wanted to create a 460GB partition for Windows 7, so I entered a value of 471040 (460 X 1024). If your Windows 8 partition contains a lot of data you want to consider a smaller partition size for Windows 7 (75 to 100GB).