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Clone an external partition then boot from it?
Hi,
I have an external harddrive with Windows 8 To Go. I'd like to copy this partition to a partition on my laptop (next to the current os Windows Vista) then have a boot menu. I think bcedit needs to be changed ... if it is possible at all.
Thanks for your input.
J.
I have an external harddrive with Windows 8 To Go. I'd like to copy this partition to a partition on my laptop (next to the current os Windows Vista) then have a boot menu. I think bcedit needs to be changed ... if it is possible at all.
Thanks for your input.
J.
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I installed Windows 8 to a secondary partition, it starts up. However, boot menu doesn't show Vista anymore(!) How can I get this Vista menu back?
I had once done that, on a test workstation and Vista was still there afterwards, sorry for you :}
You will have too google for vista and win8 dual boot or simply take some tool like http://www.vistabootpro.org/
You will have too google for vista and win8 dual boot or simply take some tool like http://www.vistabootpro.org/
Did you follow the instruction I posted above? I am running a Vista/Win8 dual boot on a whitebox that works just fine.
be aware that you need a license for the cloned 8