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Two instances of Win 7 on the same PC
As a result of a painstaking process of restoring my system, which took a good part of the Christmas weekend, I now have two good copies of Windows 7 (on different drives). They both have the same name in the list of available OSs to choose from when the PC is turned on, and I need the second one. I would like to keep the other copy just in case, but make it a second choice so that the default one would be my main copy. Also, I would like to give them different names. How can I do that in Windows 7?
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You suggest these are two copies of the same Windows 7 license. You need to be careful about keeping the on the same computer (Windows 7 goes looking around).
If you are going to have only one disk in the computer ar one time, then you probably do not need worry about boot options. I have the same thing, and in the event I need to use the second one, I just remove the first hard drive. No issues have resulted. .... Thinkpads_User
If you are going to have only one disk in the computer ar one time, then you probably do not need worry about boot options. I have the same thing, and in the event I need to use the second one, I just remove the first hard drive. No issues have resulted. .... Thinkpads_User
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The second instance will be used only when the first one is crashed. I do not think that this violates the agreement.
I understand, but you still do not want those two disk on the same machine. I experimented with that and Windows 7 looks around for other disks. It might see the same license.
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