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LPBBEAR

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13. I agree
Sun Dec 31, 2023, 02:18 PM
Dec 2023

with some of the earlier replies. Using VirtualBox is the easiest way to do this. You can download it for free from:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Another way to accomplish this is to use something like the following:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Dual-Bay-3-5-2-5-Inch-III-Hard-Drive-HDD-SSD-Tray-Caddy-Internal-Mobile-Rack-Enclosure-Docking-Station-with-USB-3-0-Port-Hot-Swap/190715411

This requires a bit of tinkering and some extra drives. Basically you shut down your system, remove one drive and insert another with each drive dedicated to whatever version of Windows you want to run. If you're not into working with computer hardware VirtualBox is going to be much easier than this method. (edit missed the part about it being a laptop. Change to external USB drive caddy for this idea to be workable with a laptop. You would have to use the Bios to choose to boot from caddy instead of the internal hard drive)

Dual booting various version of Windows is probably possible but you'll likely need to use a version of Linux to manage the multiple operating systems. Windows itself is weak in this area.

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