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Two Identical OS's - Win 7 & Win 7 - not independent

Postby nosliwde » Thu Jan 21, 2010 1:07 am

Please help.
I'm wanting to have a partition with Win 7 that is very stripped down for DJing that is unlikely to ever get corrupted, and another partition for general use.

+I bought a new Asus laptop with preinstalled Windows 7
+Using the freeware Partition Wizard created a second partition, then copied the first partition containing the preinstalled OS into the second partition, yielding 2 identical partitions.
+Set up Dual Boot Pro to boot either the "orginal" or the "copy" partition

Now, any time I boot to "Original," any changes I make are also reflected in the other OS ("Copy"). For example, if I save a word document to the desktop, it is sucessfully saved, yet it ALSO saves a copy to the desktop of the "Copy" partition. It is true vice-versa as well.

Suggestions? Thanks,

Ed

BTW: I see this same issue was raised here, but without resolution.
after-cloning-windows-vista-i-want-them-independent-now-t111269.html
(Partition Wizard is VERY similar to the old PowerQuest / Norton PartitionMagic, and was run off a bootable CD-ROM.)
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Re: Two Identical OS's - Win 7 & Win 7 - not independent

Postby yeshuas » Thu Jan 21, 2010 4:35 am

Although you appear to want to create another installatiion of win 7 on another partition of the same HD and the same CPU you may need another license to accomplish this
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