Windows 7 and Vista dual-boot query

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I'm currently running an OEM version of Vista Home Premium and I've recently bought the pre-ordered version of Windows 7 Home Premium (Retail)

I wish to run a dual-boot setup but have never done so before.

What would happen if I tried to install Windows 7 when I already have Vista as my boot drive?

Could there be any disadvantages to dual-booting like, for example, if I wanted to ditch Vista in the future, would this mess up the Windows 7 installation?
 
hi mate dual booting is very simple really we need to no the size of your hd really and how many partition you have already, win 7 need around 30gb i would say to be on the safe size, once you have installed win 7 onto a partition on your hd when you boot up you will get an option to boot either your vista os or win 7 os, as for ditching vista i would!! win7 is really dam good if i was you back up all your important files from vista and do a fresh install of win 7
 
liamcrane said:
hi mate dual booting is very simple really we need to no the size of your hd really and how many partition you have already
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I am running Vista on a 120 GB drive and my new unused hard drive is 1 TB in size.

I don't bother with partitions and so I only have the one partition.


liamcrane said:
as for ditching vista i would!! win7 is really dam good if i was you back up all your important files from vista and do a fresh install of win 7
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I do intend on doing this eventually :)
 
best bet then just install win 7 on your new hd and when you boot up you will get a boot option where you can choose vista or win 7 thats the same setup i have apart from my other hd has xp not vista :)
 
liamcrane said:
no worries if you get stuck just post back be glad to help you out
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I'm stuck :o

I keep getting the dreaded Windows integrity check error message :mad: (below)

I don't remember seeing this when I used to run the BETA a few months ago :confused:

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As if not being able to run programs that ran okay on Vista wasn't bad enough, I can't even update Windows :( (below)

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I'm sure that the 2 problems are related.

p.s. I'm not moaning about Windows 7 as I know it's a brilliant operating system and the reason why I'm getting these problems is because I went for the upgrade instead of the clean install as I couldn't get Norton Ghost to copy my OEM Vista installation from the 1 TB drive that I'm using now to a 120 GB spare hard drive.

It should have worked as the 'image' size was only around 100 GB with compression.
 
When I first boot up Windows 7 I get the following error:

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I've googled it and apparently the error is caused by a Vista upgrade from Windows XP.

That doesn't apply to me as my OEM Vista installation was a fresh installation not an XP upgrade :confused:
 
I decided to go back to the Vista installation using Norton Ghost and will go for a fresh installation at the weekend when I have more time as I have to make a list of my program settings, etc.

I was hoping to save time and effort by going down the upgrade route but it is no good and a fresh installation is best.

I think that the reason why I had virtually no hassle with the BETA version of Windows 7 was because that too was a fresh installation and not an upgrade.

In addition, I have had no trouble with this Vista installation and I think it's because I went for a clean installation.

I had no choice as my old PC with XP on packed in and so I couldn't go down the upgrade path even if I wanted to!
 
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