WhiteWolf Posted November 17, 2014 Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 Greetings AllI am trying to run Win 10 tech with win 8.1 on my main PC its a HP all-in-one ENVY 23.Its the BIOS boot order I'm having a prob with.(have made bootable DVD + USB and have enough space on my HD have separate participation to install to.Prob is win 8.1 has this new BIOS setup I can not quite work out how to ""restart and boot from USB or DVD". I remember BT ,TT , Pete C, and all you guys / girls from the techTV days. Hope you can help Regards WW Quote Link to post Share on other sites
flashh4 Posted November 17, 2014 Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 Howdy WhiteWolf, good to see you, i remember you from G4. I don't know if this will help you or not nut look at it anyway. I just do Malware mostly.http://grok.lsu.edu/Article.aspx?articleId=17376 Chuck Quote Link to post Share on other sites
baker7 Posted November 18, 2014 Report Share Posted November 18, 2014 (edited) Hello Whitewolf: Brian here: Instead of trying to install Windows 10 from install media on a partition, try running a windows 10 Virtual Machine on Windows 8.1. (http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro/archive/2014/10/02/step-by-step-creating-and-running-a-windows-10-vm-on-windows-8-1.aspx) (This will make it so that if there is a problem with the install, running it in a VM will make it easier to remove Windows 10 - If you install it to a partition, you may foul up windows 8, or whatever primary OS you are running - a VM, in my opinion is a safer bet) Good Luck! Brian Edited November 18, 2014 by baker7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pete_C Posted November 19, 2014 Report Share Posted November 19, 2014 Windows does not determine what bios you have, your computer motherboard and / or PC manufacturer does that. (although as chuck pointed out it does allow you to tell the boot manager to boot to the bios ). The BIOS is the operating system of the motherboard before windows loads. There should be an option which splashes briefly when you first turn on that says something like "Press F2 to enter setup" that is the bios. Alternatively, most modern bios support boot to alternate device by pressing a key such as F10 or Ctrl+F10 when first powered on. It will bring up a boot options dialog asking which disk to boot to. However you could just boot to win 8 and then run your win 10 install cd. It will ask where to install. You can install to a partition you created on your existing drive, install to a slave drive , or even install to a USB drive. Note that it will replace the boot sector and boot manager on your primary hard drive so it will now have a win 10 boot manager which gives you an option to choose which of the tow OS to boot into each time you start. Note that if you delete the Win 10 partition, this boot manger will remain and to revert to win 8 boot manager you will need to do a boot repair using your win 8CD or boot manager in win 8., Quote Link to post Share on other sites
flashh4 Posted November 19, 2014 Report Share Posted November 19, 2014 It's great to see Pete weigh in on this ! I think he is the sharpest one i have ever met on technical problems !! Chuck Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WhiteWolf Posted November 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2014 Thanks Chuck & Brian and Pete All great info, so far no joy! tho I have a new prob ""why even tho I run Win 8.1 I can not get Hyper- V on my turn windows features on or off, even after enabling it in BIOS. Noel aka (WhiteWolf) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
flashh4 Posted November 20, 2014 Report Share Posted November 20, 2014 Hi Noel (Whitewolf) See if this article will help >> http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/windows-and-office/get-started-with-windows-8-client-hyper-v-the-right-way/ Chuck Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WhiteWolf Posted November 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 Thanks ChuckBut have tried that does not give me the "Hyper" in win turn features on or off! but as they say "If life gives you lemons make lemonade! " or as I do ferment them and make something better!!!.Have come up with 3 Rules to sort out all my probs (after trying all suggestions).1 / If you have spent hours/days adjusting your main OS to work how you wish it too DO NOT MESS WITH IT !!2/ / If you have a second PC or Lappy not as good as your main PC !! use that to test the new OS.3 / Refer to Rule 1 !! Noel Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WhiteWolf Posted December 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2014 Ok Girl & Guys I have found away to run both Win 8.1 and 10 on my main PC without risk to my main OS 8.1.Its a proggy called "VMware Player" thats if you have any problems using or ruining Hyper-V ! it creates a Virtual Machine within your main OS and allows you to run any OS you wish in it.You can allocate as much of your RAM as you wish and HD space for it ,so you can test out any OS you want. Well I have not found a down side to it so far, but am interested in others opinions Regards WW Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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