Comments on: How to Dual Boot Windows Vista And Windows 7

By: camilo

camilo — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:56:50 +0000

I have tried repartioning the disk and it works and everything but I find Portlock Leap Frog software much easier to dual-boot my computer, and the coolest thing, is that I don’t have to repartion the disk, Portlcok Leap Frog will create a virtual hard disk and install Windows 7 on it and use to dual boot my computer. it is nice and it is faster… http://www.portlock.com/products/leap_frog/

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:06:15 +0000

Hey Damien, thanks for the great steps everything worked perfectly and i am enjoying Windows 7.

I now want to revert back to my original single boot with vista, i saw that you said you need to re-format the windows 7 partition and then fix the boot loader with easyBCD, however i am afraid that in mucking around with all this i will mess some thing up big time. could you please post how to do this step by step if you have the time, or at least put in some basic guidelines about how to re-format the win 7 partition and use easyBCD to fix the boot loader.

Thanks.

By: bob

bob — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:40:15 +0000

Ok thanks for the info!

By: Damien

Damien — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:40:27 +0000

You shouldn’t have any problem upgrading Vista to Windows 7, except that it will wipe off your boot setting. You will need to restore grub (http://maketecheasier.com/how-to-restore-grub-in-ubuntu/2008/04/11) to access the dual boot.

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By: bob

bob — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:43:00 +0000

I dual boot Ubuntu and Vista. Do you know if I’ll encounter any problems upgrading Vista to Windows 7? I know I have no problems upgrading Ubuntu, but I don’t know about Windows.

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By: Damien

Damien — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:56:04 +0000

Reformat the Windows 7 partition (either from the Win Vista partition or use a third party software like Partition magic or Gparted), then reconfigure the bootloader (either with easyBCD or Vista installer DVD)

By: Neil John

Neil John — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:09:56 +0000

if i want to revert back to single boot Vista or upgrade to windows 7, how do you remove a dual boot.

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By: Paul Doyle

Paul Doyle — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:09:33 +0000

After you computer is finished with the POST (BIOS screens, memory, etc), the screen will clear, and your computer will display something like: “Loading…” At this point, try pressing the F12 key, just as you see that “Loading” message, and that will hopefully intercept the Vista boot. Hopefully you wil then get a load screen showing the Windows 7 (and Vista) option. Select Windows 7 (up and down keys, then hit ), and away you go. If it works, use this procedure every time.

Let me know if this works.

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:14:52 +0000

I followed all the directions of patitioning and installing Windows 7 and everything went great and 7 works wonderful, however on a reboot I don’t get a boot option screen and system loads into Vista. Any help would be appreciated.

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By: Damien

Damien — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:04:31 +0000

You can try either EASEUS or GParted

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:47:53 +0000

Hi there

I am trying to dual boot between my currently installed Vista and Win 7. I followed your great steps, but it will only let me shrink 10 Mb!!

I have a 300GB HDD – with 178 GB free. I have tried clicking and looking for options etc but i can’t find any way to shrink for adequate Win 7 space (i was going to do 100Gb approx so i could use it to test games etc, which take up lots of space).

Any ideas???

cheers.

By: Damien

Damien — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:19:23 +0000

Not that I know of…

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:33:18 +0000

Is there an easy way to transfer my apps to the new Windows 7 Partition without reinstalling?

By: Damien

Damien — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:18:30 +0000

You can use the GParted Live CD to erase the Windows 7 partition (and return the partition to the Win XP if you want).

After that, you will have to use the Win XP installer CD to restore the XP bootloader.

Boot up your XP installer CD.

Choose Repair
type in “fixmbr” (without the quote) in the command prompt.
restart the computer

By: Kajjah

Kajjah — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:28:33 +0000

Just a question, how do you remove a dual boot? after I installed windows 7 on a virtual machine I got overconfident and made a dual-boot between 7 and xp, however I want to revert back to 7 on a virtual machine after all, so how do I remove windows 7’s boot option and it’s entire partition?