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I think we all understand how to dual boot, splitting your SSD into 2 partitions, installing the OS's and etc,etc,etc but something not so clear is the data drive.
- In my situation I have a 500gb SSD, that will be split 250/250 for the OS and primary drives (win7/win7)
- I will have a 1TB drive in the PC as well, and I want to make it 500/500gb for the data drives, one dedicated to each boot OS.
I want to make the drives (boot AND Data) invisible/inaccessible to the other OS. How can I do this? I only have been successful messing with the group policy, but there has got to be a better way, more proper and secure way to dual boot. Making one specific data drive partition accessible and visible only to one of the OS partitions, that is what I am trying to achieve.
For those out there that usually see fit to question the question, rather than help with the answer, I am doing this because dual booting is the only way to fully utilize ALL the hardware in my "powerful PC", unlike installing a bare-metal hypervisor or a OS based HV, which dumbs down your OS, restricting GPU and CPU power (and etc.)... (4709K/Geforce 970/16gb2133)
Why are you dual booting Windows 7 with Windows 7? Also, hypervisors don't "dumb down" an OS. It's the same OS. And you control exactly how much "power" you give to each OS. You can dedicate access to cores, passthrough the GPU or other hardware. The other big advantage is that you can run multiple systems simultaneously rather than one at a time. – Nick2253 – 2015-04-15T21:44:47.540
(Win7, I only have keys for those right now, I am going to jump strait to win10, I am not very happy with win8) So, yes, improper use of my wording, the OS is still the OS, but it will still be 'not the same/limited'. I have used Virtualbox and Vmware, and I have never seen a decent range of GPU support.. but with my GPU and its popularity, who knows, it may very well be supported.... but regardless - the overhead of the hypervisor whether baremetal or OS level is something I don't want to necessarily have.
I wind up going this route regardless... running VMs certain does have its advantages – John Adcock – 2015-04-17T13:42:20.697