OK, some people have been asking how to set up dual booting Vista and W7 Beta. I was bored and decided to post this quick walkthrough of how to do this.
Right click the computer tab. Select manage>storage>disk management. Once you can see your drives and partitions, you need to right click a partition that has some free space. You need at least 16gb for W7 iirc, so it is best to make it a little bigger than that (all up to you depending on how much space you think you'll need and/or want)
You then select shrink volume. Choose how much you want to shrink it and continue. Once the volume is shrunk, you simply right click on the unallocated space and choose to create a new volume. Run through the prompts and voila, you are all done. Boot from DVD and choose the new volume to install W7. You will then be prompted at start up as to which version of windows you would like to load.
Edited by dralb - 1/11/09 at 2:59pm
Right click the computer tab. Select manage>storage>disk management. Once you can see your drives and partitions, you need to right click a partition that has some free space. You need at least 16gb for W7 iirc, so it is best to make it a little bigger than that (all up to you depending on how much space you think you'll need and/or want)
You then select shrink volume. Choose how much you want to shrink it and continue. Once the volume is shrunk, you simply right click on the unallocated space and choose to create a new volume. Run through the prompts and voila, you are all done. Boot from DVD and choose the new volume to install W7. You will then be prompted at start up as to which version of windows you would like to load.
Edited by dralb - 1/11/09 at 2:59pm
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