Running 2 Operating systems????

[Entrisen]

I have a new gaming PC, custom built and I have windows 10 installed on my 500GB SSD. I love it, but it does not play my favorite games such as the Sims 2 because of security measures taken by windows 10. So I also have a second Hard drive, an HDD 1TB on my system, would It be possible to install windows 7 on that hard drive JUST to play the sims 2? Yeah, it is worth the extra work for me... I built this PC to run all games and am very disappointed to discover it wont.
So would this be logical? Is it safe, and, how would I go about doing it? I am asking here first hoping to get an answer, these forums have helped me out so much already.

Also if I wanted to save certain things such as a certain steam game here or there to my HDD with my second OS on it, would that be possible? I know this may sound dumb, I am just wondering how it works. Or would the second OS completely take use of my new HDD?

 

[Rogue Leader]

You wouldn't want to do that just for 1 game. How about this instead:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3702

It should work on Windows 10 to create a Virtual PC in your system.

 

[Xergiiok]

Yeah it's possible. Just search dual boot windows 10 and 7 in google.

 

[Sakkura]

You wouldn't want to do that just for 1 game. How about this instead:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3702

It should work on Windows 10 to create a Virtual PC in your system.

I was about to suggest a virtual machine too. Not that installing Win 7 separately wouldn't work.

 

[Entrisen]

You wouldn't want to do that just for 1 game. How about this instead:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3702

It should work on Windows 10 to create a Virtual PC in your system.

I see... So it's just as simple as that?? Is there no real drawbacks to doing this?

 

[Entrisen]

You wouldn't want to do that just for 1 game. How about this instead:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3702

It should work on Windows 10 to create a Virtual PC in your system.

I was about to suggest a virtual machine too. Not that installing Win 7 separately wouldn't work.

The thing that sucks about virtual pc is that you cant even use your graphics card to play the game. Hence sims 2 would look like crap, and I have a gtx 980ti and I would love to take advantage of this for all my games 🙁 Sims 2 is old but it still does use a bit of power

 

[Rogue Leader]

Yeah that is the issue, I didn't realize Sims 2 needed that. What prevents it from working in Windows 10?

 

[Entrisen]

Yeah that is the issue, I didn't realize Sims 2 needed that. What prevents it from working in Windows 10?

It's the dang secuROM that older games used. Windows 10 doesn't support it, I've looked up everywhere and can't find a solution. I think I will have to buy windows 7 and dual boot my system. Only problem is I'm afraid to do it as I'm new to pcs and I don't want to mess anything up :/ I have two disk drives so i can put the other OS on one... I just hope it goes alright...

 

[Rogue Leader]

This guide is for the other direction but it should work the same. IMO I wouldn't waste the whole drive on Windows 7, I would make like a 120 GB partition for Windows 7 and whatever programs and games you want to run and just run it from there.

http://www.howtogeek.com/197647/how-to-dual-boot-windows-10-with-windows-7-or-8/

 

[Entrisen]

This guide is for the other direction but it should work the same. IMO I wouldn't waste the whole drive on Windows 7, I would make like a 120 GB partition for Windows 7 and whatever programs and games you want to run and just run it from there.

http://www.howtogeek.com/197647/how-to-dual-boot-windows-10-with-windows-7-or-8/

Going with this, thank you very much