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Multibooting Win 7

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I have built a new rig.
I have 3 drives and several partitions.

I have installed a clean install of Win 7 on lets say drive 1 with a single partition.
I then created an image using windows 7's tool

I would like to duplicate this install on say drive 2 partition 3 as a backup OS.

If i perform a basic win 7 install in that location and then restore from my image to that location, will I end up with 2 installs and a modified windows boot loader menu that will have the option to select which install to boot to?

If not what is the best way to get that?
 
I do a lot of work from my PC.
If I lose or corrupt an OS, then I can boot in to the second OS and carry on (ok with a little updating) and they fix the first OS when I have a moment.

License wise, I have site licenses and besides I am still operating one OS on the same single PC.

Also until I actually recover from an image, I don't completely trust windows or other backups. I want another option incase that fails.
 
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