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[How-To] Create Dual Boot Windows 7 With Windows XP or Vista

If you are someone who has been able to get a copy of Windows 7 Beta Release and are now looking ahead at installing Windows 7 and making it a dual boot with your Windows XP or Windows Vista installation, Adam Pash of Lifehacker has a step by step guide ready for you in his article on Lifehacker. 

Multi boot or Multi booting (usually dual booting, but many OSes can be booted from the same computer) is the act of installing multiple operating systems on acomputer, and being able to choose which one to boot when switching on the computer power. The program which makes multi booting possible is called a boot loader.

Image: Installing Windows 7 Beta

Image: Installing Windows 7 Beta

Creating a dual boot Windows 7 with Windows XP or Windows Vista is essentially only a three step process

1.)  Download the Windows 7 Beta and Burn It to a DVD

2.) Partition Your Hard Drive

3.) Install Windows 7

You can even try using Easeus Partition Manager for partitioning your hard drives.

Read the full article here.

[Update] As per Ars Technica, the much waited for download of Windows 7 is now live however the file has been posted in this Technet article.

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2 Responses to “[How-To] Create Dual Boot Windows 7 With Windows XP or Vista”

  1. Hi there, I was looking around for a while searching for antivirus vista and I happened upon this site and your post regarding ] Create Dual Boot Windows 7 With Windows XP or Vista | Technofriends, I will definitely this to my antivirus vista bookmarks!

  2. first install windows XP and then Install Windows 7 in a different partition.
    Note: Install XP first b’coz 7 has no startup drivers

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