How to dual boot Windows Vista and Windows 7 (Vista installed first)

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James Bannan20 January 2009, 12:00 PM

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Got your hands on the Windows 7 beta and want to dual boot it alongside Windows Vista? Here's our step-by-step tutorial to get you up and running with Microsoft's latest OS.

Got your hands on the Windows 7 beta and want to dual boot it alongside Windows Vista? Here's our step-by-step tutorial to get you up and running with Microsoft's latest OS.

Scenario:

You want to install Windows 7 on your PC alongside your Vista installation, on the same drive.

Tutorial Summary: We need to shrink the Vista partition on the hard disk and create enough space for an installation of Windows 7. This can be done in three ways - using the GPartEd Live CD, the DISKPART utility on the Windows 7 DVD or the Disk Management utility within Windows Vista.

We're then going to install Windows 7 Home Premium beta on a system running Vista SP1 Home Premium. This tutorial was tested on a VMWare Workstation 6 virtual machine.

Continue to page 2: Create Free Space for Windows 7

Page 1 Intro

Page 2 Create Free Space for Windows 7

Page 3 Now Install Windows 7

Page 4 Managing the Bootloader