How to put a second Windows on a laptop?

Question

Iron

Hello.
I have several partitions on my hard drive, the screen is attached. It costs vin7 on C. I want to put vin8 in section B.
When trying to install from a USB flash drive, it says "I can't install to an existing partition due to lack of free space on the system unit"
The screen shows that there is a section "reserved by the system" it is 100 m there, forcibly expanded to 1GB. Didn't help...
laptop samsung np350v5c-a06ru win7 prof ,core i5
I don't understand much about hard. I would be grateful for links to manuals or at least tell me what to look for.

Answer 1

Try converting B: from logical to primary and make it active (partition managers like Paragon HDM, Aomei, Acronis, etc. from many LiveCD/LiveUSB recovery tools can easily do this, and they do not corrupt the information contained on the partition user).
But from my point of view, all this is much more transparent for a simple user, if you use the old partition format - MBR, instead of the current GPT. MBR allows you to have no more than 4 partitions on a disk, but you have just 4 of them. When I had to do this, I first created a backup image of the system partition and saved it on a third-party medium (by the way, it was not needed, but ... it’s supposed to be so that you don’t bite your elbows later). Then he converted GPT->MBR and deleted hidden system partitions, expanded the remaining ones using free space, restored the bootloader with the fixmbr program, and then installed the second OS on another partition. At the same time, a boot menu of 2 items appeared in the first OS.

Answer 2

native. you are our frame. Windows 8 needs 32 gigs.

Answer 3

There, most likely, B8 wants to write the bootloader to the backup partition.
In such cases, I came across the following recommendation:

Clear the hidden partition (100Mb)
The system is installed on the specified disk, and the bootloader is installed on the hidden (100Mb). If it is filled with files from earlier installations, then there is not enough space for new ones. Or another option. The section where you will install, make active. Then the bootloader will write to this partition.

There were positive reviews from those who tested the proposed methods.
I did not come across and, accordingly, did not try.
Before performing the described steps, it is highly desirable to remove the disk image (completely) and have a recovery environment for such an image that obviously works from a USB flash drive on your PC in order to roll everything back if something goes wrong.

Answer 4

I have 76 gigs free on drive B. it can be seen in the picture.
It's not the place. he is not put on E for the same reason.

Answer 5

Stupidly install Windows wherever you want, while not deleting the old Windows.

Answer 6

rename drive B to another letter!