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How to install several Windows on a laptop with one HDD so that OS copies are inaccessible to each other?
If you just put two copies of Windows on different HDD volumes, then some software I need will be installed regardless of which volume the OS will be launched from on drive "C". Plus, a large number of auxiliary software and drivers are automatically installed in the same place, where it is necessary, where it is not necessary, remake the installers without prospects, it turns out a complete mess here and there.
A laptop is a low power netbook. No internet or network. And it requires work with iron, so removal is not suitable.
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In general, the logic is as follows:
1. Format the disk.
2. Put the first Windows on the entire disk (if the seven and above is for the Windows installer to put the boot partition for the bootloader as the first partition).
3. After installation, another piece is cut off from the main partition for the second OS.
4. The partition with Windows installed is hidden by any normal partition manager (well, you can just back it up and delete it).
5. The second Windows is put in the second section.
6. We reboot into the live system and from there we open / restore the partition with the first Windows from the backup.
7. We boot into the second Windows and see that the second partition is still named as drive C, and the first is D. To do this, you need to hide the first partition so that the second Windows determines it as the second drive after loading it.
8. Next, we simply hide the first section with any tweaker or hands through the registry in the explorer in the second Windows, and the second section in the first. In Explorer, additional drives will not be visible, but access there will still be.
This is all - the general case, plus options are possible - because. Different versions of Windows may behave differently. If you need something more serious, then we already install a special OS manager that allows you to hide partitions before starting the OS: for example, Acronis OS Selector.
The easiest way is to rent a VPS as much as you need, but you have to pay money, several hundred rubles a month for each, although you don’t need it every day, you can rent it only when you need it, somewhere you can for a day or even an hour.
*rukalitsa* to all advisers. And you are a nice person, read about "launching Windows from vhd"
https://mihailromanov.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/zap... To warm up
If you just put two copies of Windows on different HDD volumes, then some software I need will be installed regardless of which volume the OS will be launched from on drive "C"
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