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Default Dual booting, dual hard drives. Questions.
Is there any way to dual boot Ubuntu and Win 7 with the Win7 bootloader? I've tried using EasyBCD but it said my MBR was missing (I'm guessing it was on the Ubuntu hard drive. Maybe?). There's also a good chance I screwed something up installing Ubuntu. It's okay though, because I had to reinstall when Windows 7 came in. So, now I've got a new installation of Win7 and a formatted 40GB IDE HD.

I just want Win7 to be safe and able to boot if my second hard drive gets FUBAR (it's OLD).

Summary:
250GB Sata (Win7)
40GB IDE (Ubuntu 9.10)
Boot from Windows Boot Manager.

Possible?
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Is there any way to dual boot Ubuntu and Win 7 with the Win7 bootloader? I've tried using EasyBCD but it said my MBR was missing (I'm guessing it was on the Ubuntu hard drive. Maybe?). There's also a good chance I screwed something up installing Ubuntu. It's okay though, because I had to reinstall when Windows 7 came in. So, now I've got a new installation of Win7 and a formatted 40GB IDE HD.

I just want Win7 to be safe and able to boot if my second hard drive gets FUBAR (it's OLD).

Summary:
250GB Sata (Win7)
40GB IDE (Ubuntu 9.10)
Boot from Windows Boot Manager.

Possible?
Wow i was just going to ask the same thing. it is possible but i just don't know what to do.

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I want to say no, your stuck with GRUB because windows does not like Linux/hackintosh.

If your going to do a reinstall, I would install windows 7 first then Ubuntu second so you dont have to worry about 7 overwriting GRUB.
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this says vista but it works with windows 7
it instruction for just where your at EasyBCD
http://apcmag.com/how_to_dualboot_vi...led.htm?page=5

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