So I want to make absolutely sure this product will help me and perhaps get some advice on how to accomplish my goal because I've been basically pulling my hair out all day.
I need two dual installations of Win 7 Ultimate x64 on the same laptop (Dell M6500) for some beta testing/demo. It has to be dual install and not VM because VM is way too slow and limited.
I have a 500GB drive I've been using for a couple of years. It's been partitioned into 2 drives, has OS and works great. We'll call it 'A'.
I purchased a 100GB SSD drive for the beta/demo side. We'll call it 'B'.
I original installed the OS in 'B' while it was in the primary HDD slot of laptop.
I moved 'B' to secondary slot and put 'A' back in it's original location of primary slot.
Without anything, I boot up 'A' ok, then 'B' ok, and try to go back into 'A' and thus started my day of learning all about bootmgr errors and etc...
Right now, I'm back in my original config of just 'A' physically installed in the laptop. I would prefer not to have to switch out 'A' and 'B' in primary HDD slot if i can because I know from experience, having internal RPM drives out, even protected in foam and static bags, are still prone to bad things happening.
It appears EasyBCD will allow me to put 'B' back in secondary hard drive slot and resolve the dual boot/conflicting master boot sector issues I was seeing all day?
Do I HAVE to reformat 'B' and reinstall the OS after getting and installing EasyBCD?
I have already 'hid' the drives from each by removing them in disk management when booted into either OS. Is that going to cause any conflicts?
If anyone has any positive helpful advice, it would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance everyone. I'm sure you're having a much happier Friday than me!
I need two dual installations of Win 7 Ultimate x64 on the same laptop (Dell M6500) for some beta testing/demo. It has to be dual install and not VM because VM is way too slow and limited.
I have a 500GB drive I've been using for a couple of years. It's been partitioned into 2 drives, has OS and works great. We'll call it 'A'.
I purchased a 100GB SSD drive for the beta/demo side. We'll call it 'B'.
I original installed the OS in 'B' while it was in the primary HDD slot of laptop.
I moved 'B' to secondary slot and put 'A' back in it's original location of primary slot.
Without anything, I boot up 'A' ok, then 'B' ok, and try to go back into 'A' and thus started my day of learning all about bootmgr errors and etc...
Right now, I'm back in my original config of just 'A' physically installed in the laptop. I would prefer not to have to switch out 'A' and 'B' in primary HDD slot if i can because I know from experience, having internal RPM drives out, even protected in foam and static bags, are still prone to bad things happening.
It appears EasyBCD will allow me to put 'B' back in secondary hard drive slot and resolve the dual boot/conflicting master boot sector issues I was seeing all day?
Do I HAVE to reformat 'B' and reinstall the OS after getting and installing EasyBCD?
I have already 'hid' the drives from each by removing them in disk management when booted into either OS. Is that going to cause any conflicts?
If anyone has any positive helpful advice, it would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance everyone. I'm sure you're having a much happier Friday than me!