As i will be already make SURE where I am going to install OS. I am a visually Impaired and feel problems in seeing white screen in WinPE environment *(in Full OS I use High Contrast Black theme) even at near distance. Mostly I install both Win 7 and Win 10 in a new PC within from WinPE10 using WinNTSetup. Why complicate things with two concurrent installs? Specially the 'active' part is important for an OS setup that requires multiple reboots. Nowadays with the stupid update model of the stupid Windows 10 it becomes possibly even more frustrating as the procedure finally working for a given version/release is likely to have issues with next one.įor OS setups, I make sure I have the right partition, format it as C: and make it active. Simply the time it takes to put together something really 'unattended', fully working and (hopefully) error-free is equivalent to installing some tens of OS's manually/attended. I am old (and grumpy, and cheap, but this latter is irrelevant here) and I have seen a lot of water going under the bridges in my time, but I never fully grasped the utility of similar approaches, unless of course - maybe - for professionals that install tens or hundreds of OS's per month.

Otherwise in a 'monolithic' install you would use anyway a bootmanager like grub4dos or similar and you would have all the possibilities in the word to change the active partition, hide the other one, etc.īut of course devdevadev idea equates to 'looking for troubles', more or less like each and every 'fully unattended' approach.

Particularly for a Windows 7 + Windows 10 dual boot where BOTH OS's should ideally reside on two different volumes, both of which are NOT active, the active one being the small 'boot' (what MS calls 'System') volume that gets no drive letter. Specially the 'active' part is important for an OS setup that requires multiple reboots.Not really useful/appropriate in a multi-boot setup, just for the record and as a side note. For OS setups, I make sure I have the right partition, format it as C: and make it active.

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