Anyone dual boot?

I'll be getting my R1 in in a couple days, and have been thinking on splitting the drive into 2 partitions and cloning the first - basically running the same windows on each partition.

The first would be for general use / work, and the second would be strictly gaming. This way when I want to game, I could set it to discrete in the BIOS then boot into the game partition which I can run the latest and greatest video drivers. Once done, set the bios back and boot into the first.

Would mean keeping both updated, which could be a pain I guess. Just curious if anyone has done something like this.

 

Have fun shelling out the extra money for another Windows 7 OS.

 

Why would I have to do that? I'd clone the main OS onto the 2nd partition.

 

I guess I stand corrected if you're correct.

 

why not just have two accounts to login to? I used to do that on my M1210.

 

I doubt you would find huge performance increases with doing that, and even if you did I don't think they'd be equal to the amount of effort you'd be putting into this dual booting option.

 

Well, I have been doing dual boot, but not with two Windows: I have Windows 7 and Opensuse. By the way, I couldn't figure out how to get switchable gpus with linux in the M11x. I would really appreciate if someone could help me with some links.

 

Agree with using two user accounts.

 

You can have different video drivers installed on user accounts? I didn't know you could do that, I thought once you installed one driver it was for the entire system.

 

ah, just one set only. I'm sorry!