dual booting windows 8 & 8.1

[Zach Elipse]

Hi guys sooooo I recently got gta 5 for my gaming sister but her pc is 32 bit and she only has one hard drive fortunately it has two partitions, so I searched about dual booting and it said that you can have the two worlds in one case. I still have her windows 8 disks (both 32 & 64), but I'm still wondering will it work or should I downgrade her 8.1 to 8?
Thanks

 

[Shaun o]

Any two operating systems can reside on the same boot able hard drive partition.
There is only one rule though.

Any operating system of a lower version must be installed to the boot able drive first.
You can then install a higher OS version after it and have a dual booting OS drive.

But you cannot install a lower version of an OS if the existing one super seeds it in version number.
Weather you have a 32bit os or a x64 bit os pre installed.

It`s a pain I know, not sure about trying to install an x64 bit version of windows 8 with windows 8.1 already installed.
to be honest, but i suspect it will have a winge when you try to install windows 8.

An example is if you had windows 8 say, and wanted to install windows 7 it would prevent you from doing so in most cases when you begin the windows setup from Cd/Dvd. Or when you click next to install the OS.

 

[USAFRet]

dual booting windows 8 & 8.1

This can be done, but it would require two different licenses. You'd have to buy Windows twice.

Why do you think you need both?

 

[Zach Elipse]

Any two operating systems can reside on the same boot able hard drive partition.
There is only one rule though.

Any operating system of a lower version must be installed to the boot able drive first.
You can then install a higher OS version after it and have a dual booting OS drive.

But you cannot install a lower version of an OS if the existing one super seeds it in version number.
Weather you have a 32bit os or a x64 bit os pre installed.

It`s a pain I know, not sure about trying to install an x64 bit version of windows 8 with windows 8.1 already installed.
to be honest, but i suspect it will have a winge when you try to install windows 8.

An example is if you had windows 8 say, and wanted to install windows 7 it would prevent you from doing so in most cases when you begin the windows setup from Cd/Dvd. Or when you click next to install the OS.

So should I revert my 8.1 back to 8?

 

[USAFRet]

I cannot think of any reason to use Win 8 vs 8.1.

 

[Zach Elipse]

What I 'm asking is should I downgrade first the 8.1 back to 8 and then add the 64 version of 8?

 

[USAFRet]

What I 'm asking is should I downgrade first the 8.1 back to 8 and then add the 64 version of 8?

From your initial description of what you have....

You should install Win 8 64bit, then upgrade that to 8.1
32bit to 64bit...there is no 'downgrade' or 'upgrade'. It is a full install.

Unless you have a valid 8.164bit install and license key. If you do, then just do that.