dude it is a pain in the butt getting back to vista.(Took me 8 hours, and thats with computer skills.) I made the mistake of upgrading to windows 7. Here ill set you up with a tutorial on how to partition your drive: http://lifehacker.com/5126781/how-to-dua... Any further questions and you can e-mail me directly if you would like.
Hi, If you plan to download Windows-7 Beta I d recommend you create a separate partition or install a separate hard drive altogether and install Windows-7 on that. Given its so new there is not enough published information from current users to say categorically just install over the top of Vista. Having said that; if you have the Disks for Vista and hence are able to reinstall that should all go wrong, then I suppose you could take the risk and update your OS. Regards, TgTips PS: Not all parts of the Beta are fully functional yet. For example you cannot take full advantage of a touch screen monitor yet. Other things to note are that you may need to set some hardware, for example a printer, to run in Vista Compatability Mode as hardware manufacturers wont have release drivers to run with Windows-7 in some cases.
Hi Friend, I am having both Windows Vista and Windows 7 on my PC. No need to try difficult methods to install Windows 7 and Windows vista.Here is a simple and 100% safe method to Dual Install Win Vista and Win 7. Before starting do following: a).For safety I recommend to back up Windows Vista PC. b).Create more than two partitions on hard drive.On one you have Vista ,on other you will have Windows 7 and others for Data. c). Get or download EasyBCD a small and free boot editing utility. Here is how to get the best of both Vista and Windows 7: 1.Install Windows 7 on a separate partition. For example if you have Vista on C: Drive then install Win 7 on D drive. 2.After Windows 7 install is complete you will see only Windows 7 during system boot and no Vista Boot option. 3.Do not worry.Boot to Windows 7 and Install EasyBCD in Windows 7. 4.Run EasyBCD and Click on Add/Remove Entries . Click on Add an Entry. Under Windows tab and Version Select Windows Vista/LongHorn, Write the Drive Letter (like D:\ or whatever is shown for vista in Windows 7). Give name Windows Vista (or any other of your choice) in Name Column. 5.Click on Add Entry and then Save. 6.Restart Computer. Now Both Windows Vista and Windows 7 will be visible at boot time.Select Vista if you want to boot to Vista or Windows 7 to boot to Windows 7. Thats all. Above process may seem difficult but believe me it will be very simple when you try. Have a nice time, Er.Guru.
I can tell you the best thing to do in your case is to use VMware or some type of virtualization software... Sun has something that is free as well as the VmWare team... This is the best way to do some thing like that so if you lose the guest OS(Windows 7 beta) then all you have to do is delete the .vhd and start over again... instead of have to wipe a hard drive and lose all of your data... Or you can purchase a second hard drive and install it on a separate drive and not have to share resources... I hope this helps
you need to keep your windows vista installation disc so you can revert back to windows vista cause windows 7 expires in august and i would reccomend you just run it as a virtual machine instead of reformatting your hdd and installing it
Don t downland windows 7 for free. You can install it from a CD onto a separate partition and still keep vista so you have 2 OS s in case one fails or you can replace vista with windows 7 and just reformat with vista if 7 fails.
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