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Old 12-14-09, 09:52 PM   #27
kiwi_2005
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Originally Posted by longam View Post
You always have to install the lowest OS first. XP then Vista then Windows 7.

XP will then control the boot loader.


Acronis makes a boot manager that's not to expensive.

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...tibooting.html
Yep thats the way it works, might be different with Win 7 but like longam said always the lowest OS first on C then Vista on D etc., A partition manager will let you choose any OS to be first to boot so it wouldn't matter otherwise. I use 'Paragon Partition Manager 10', lets you setup partitions, choose what OS you want to make active/primary boot, boot loader wizard , retrieve deleted partitions <-- the retrieve option has saved my arse many times.

When i tried a early version of Win 7 back in august (XP on C, Vista on D win 7 on E and games on F). Win7 decided to delete my games drive during the setup! 120gigs wiped. Paragon got it back thou and it was bye bye Win7 after a week.

edit: If anyone cares.. make sure Paragon manager 10 is the server edition comes with far better tools
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