Benefits of dual boot for multi-purpose PC

[Partial Eclipse]

Hello All,

I am seeking advice to decide whether I should go for a dual boot or not.
Here is my situation:
I have built a pc with gaming in mind. Its only storage device is a Samsung 830 SSD of 256GB (one partition) and it currently runs Windows 7 64 bits.

Now I wish to use this very computer for music production also.
I was thinking about reducing the existing partition and installing the corresponding softwares on this second partition.

Do you think there would be any benefit to installing Windows 7 on this second partition - thus having a dual boot W7 / W7 - or is this pointless ?

Thanks for your help

 

[colonelciller]

pointless probably. does your music production software include some horrendous bloatware spam (reminiscent of realplayer/itunes)?

I have a 50 purpose machine myself all running off the same OS.

 

[Elixer]

Pointless.

 

[JackMDS]

It is Not like there is an 11th Commandment "No matter what thou should have Dual Boot". - :hmm:

 

[oynaz]

I have done music production for many years now. Back in the day, there could be a point in using dual boot, especially with Pro Tools.
These days? Spend your time on making hits instead

 

[aj654987]

I used to do it back in the day with win98 / xp and xp / vista when there were programs i needed to run under the older OS or when I was just getting used to a newer OS but I havent ran dual boot in ages.

I setup my parents PC as dual boot though just so they would have another os as backup in case they messed it up.

 

[amenx]

I've always gone dual boot for desktops no matter what the purpose, but mainly to have a no downtime PC. You can almost always have a running OS to fall back on should something mess up the other one or if hit by malware or something. You can troubleshoot issues on one OS from the other or restore image backups when required. You can keep each OS on a separate drive where if something goes wrong with one drive, the other one will see you through. You can be more adventurous in testing out different software on one vs the other, or keep all your bloatware on one and have a lean, mean main OS with no unnecessary software or services running in background. All in all I feel more secure with dual boot than just one OS.