Block Creation of Recovery Partition

Clanger said:
i personally prefer to install in isolation on different drives and use the bios boot menu.
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Ditto. I go a step farther. I have two OS's I seldomly use and have a BCD backup for each set to boot to them one time only. Then a batch file for each that imports said BCD and reboots staight to the respective OS, then reboot out of it when done and back to Windows I go with no ado :cool:
 
i'll multiboot 7 and 7, maybe even 8.1 but i never dual boot w10 and 7, it royally f----s up 7 triggering chdsk on every effing partition :mad:
 
i don't get the concept of multios can please someone tell me why people use dual triple os?

i mean there is always multiple desktop or multiple user or virtualbox for it?
 
on a 500gb ssd i leave around 120gb empty, its only recently i been using vm's. i prefer to do direct to harware testing and just can be bothered setting up the test pc(in another room grrrr, no space), kinda boils back to my days of having 4gb only i spose.
 
i get it but vm testing much easier since u can copy paste vm's after 1 install and you can use different vm's for each test
 
i tried that lot a while back and i found it very handy indeed but i havnt done hardly anything since then.
 
crypticus said:
i don't get the concept of multios can please someone tell me why people use dual triple os?

i mean there is always multiple desktop or multiple user or virtualbox for it?
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VM environment is designed for isolation, while you can add filesharing -- on a multi-boot system all the partitions are openly accessible (assuming you have filesystem support). For extensive testing, VM overhead and limitations will add up compared to multi-boot.

You have to remember it depends on budget. Where I used to work, my devs and QA folks had 2-3 PC's. But my team was limited to one PC, and you didn't want to be stuck if the latest Windows preview was buggy.
 
What we must change from nlite at the win11 iso so install it to one and only partition.
Not recovery, not boot, not any other partition at clean install.
 
Just to chime in, as I already replied to this today over email:

- to skip a certain partition in NTLite autopartition (disk wizard), type 0 for size
- Windows should be installable to a pre-created single-partition (at least it was until Win10 or so), this video shows it nicely
- if above is correct for a given Windows version, should be able to be automated with the unattended single-partition setup... no guarantees, just a pointer
 
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