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From: shegeek72 on 9 Jan 2010 21:56
Ok, I'm trying to install win7 as a dual-boot on a Vista system. I
created a new drive using Vista partition manager (200gb) on a HD
without the Vista OS and formatted it. Changed the first boot device
in the BIOS to the DVD drive and reboot with the win7 disc in the
drive. However, even though I hit enter when the 'press any key to
boot from DVD' came up it's keeps booting into Vista. What am I
missing?
From: shegeek72 on 10 Jan 2010 01:41
Problem solved. I changed the HD boot sequence in the BIOS to the HD
that I created the new partition on. Now to figure out how to
configure the puter to ask me which OS I want to use...
From: shegeek72 on 10 Jan 2010 02:54
Looks like I need to modify bdcedit in Win7...

From: Paul on 10 Jan 2010 05:12
shegeek72 wrote:
> Looks like I need to modify bdcedit in Win7...
>

I think I used Easybcd for that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EasyBCD

I set up a dual boot configuration, entirely inside a
VirtualPC 2007 machine. I installed WinXP first,
Win7 second, then used Easybcd to add WinXP so I
could choose which OS to boot. I used a virtual
hard drive for each OS. The Win7 I was using,
was the evaluation version Microsoft was handing out
earlier last year. The nice thing about working in
VirtualPC, is no real hardware gets messed up :-)

Paul
From: SteveH on 10 Jan 2010 07:24
shegeek72 wrote:
> Looks like I need to modify bdcedit in Win7...

The 7 install should have created a boot menu.

I use this: http://www.vistabootpro.org/ which used to be free.

--
SteveH


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