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Thank you for an excellant illustration for dual-booting it worked like a charm!

Thank You your illustration for dual booting made it a breeze, it worked like a charm, so great to come across those who are aces...

Thank you for posting this illustration, it's very clear and concise and I've used it to successfully dual boot Windows 7 on my main Vista desktop. When Adobe Web Standard CS5 comes out I want to remove Vista from the dual boot (i.e. have only Windows 7), are there any good quality instructions on how to do this?

Hi,

Thanks for this. But I have a slightly different problem.

I had XP first on my PC. Then when I got my WIndows 7 Ultimate, I installed an additional drive, disabled my exisiting drive with XP on it and installed Win7 onto the new drive.

So, now I have enabled the XP drive (C-Drive) and have another Drive with a full install of Win 7 (F Drive).

So, When I boot - it always goes to the XP Windows on C Drive, unless I set it up on the BIOS to boot from the F-Drive. But that is a hassle, if I have to change the BIOS each time I want to boot from a different OS.

Is there some tool, which could boot first, which will then offer me the option from booting either from the C-Drive (XP) or the F-Drive (Win7) ?

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

( Please email me at vroom88@gmail.com if possible with any response - since I may not get to this page often.

Thanks.

easy bcd should do the trick you have the option to arrange your os and also set primary boot os

Sir:

I followed your procedure to load Win 7 Ultimate on my computer  which is also running Vista Ultimate.  I have it working; however, I have to put the Win 7 Setup disk in the CD drive to get it running.  If I do not put the Setup disk in the CD drive for start up, Boot Mgr will only run Vista.

Suggestions?

Nick

Under this scenario, how would you enable BitLocker in both OS'? Also, assume the previous Vista installation did not have BL enabled. Thanks.

I did the Win 7 instal as suggested but I do not get the Windows Boot Manager Splash screen and on the boot tab of system configuration I only have Win 7 showing. In disk management I show my old XP Pro partition as D: Simple Basic NTFS Healthy (Active, Primary Partition). Why does it not show up in my list of Windows Systems on the boot tab or in the Default operating system list in the Startup and Recovery panel. How can I add the old WIn XP to that list?

Many thanks.

Hi great blog. It helped me to dual boot. I also have a question with Bit Locker on both. Currently, it is not active on either OS. I read the following (see "to set up dual boot with Bit Locker on Both" section):

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee449438(WS.10).aspx#BKMK_dualbootW7Vista

Because the OS's were not set up sequentially (with BL activated as suggested), how does one make sure it will work and not mess things up?

Here's my parition info (with infor from Disk Management:

Disk1:

Partition 513MB (Primary)

Partition  0.59GB (Recovery) System Recovery

SW Preload Partition 71GB  (System, Active, Primary partition)  Vista 32

Partition 72 GB (boot, page file, crash dump, logical dive) W7 64

Disk 2:

477GB (Primary Partition)

Sorry, to add to my post my dual boot works fine following your suggestions but it seems based on the descriptions from disk management that my boot record is on the W7 parition? Thanks!

Thanks Folks!..

This is exactly what I was looking for after discovering that I couldn´t run Virtual PC 2007 on my host OS Vista. Now, I´m going to try these steps and will be back if it went right or not! tnks a lot!