multi-boot

Hey everyone! So I clean installed W7 earlier this week. I then tried to install Ubuntu 8.10 to a totally free space (40gb) on the same drive; my c: drive. the Ubuntu install itself went off without a hitch! however... whenever I boot my computer, grub/ubuntu are totally ignored and W7 boots...

I have xp installed on a sata drive 0 Partition 0 I have vista installed on ide drive 0 I have mandriva installed on ide drive 1 The grub mbr is on sata drive 0 partition 0 and boots all three Boot Mandriva Boot Windows-XP Boot Windows-Vista Now I installed Win7 on sata drive 0 partition 1...

Hey You Guys, Don't know if anyone has already posted this problem, can't seem to find it, so I'm posting it now. Have AMD 64 3400+ Multiboot Vista HP (which I'm using now) + Windows 7 Asus K8N motherboard with nforce 3 In vista everything works just fine. But Windows 7, no can do...

Hey everyone.. I'm new to this stuff and want to know what type of partition i need to create to multiboot... I want to be able to run either xp or windows 7... I know how touse the command prompt to be able to create a partition but i don't know what type of partition to use.. Do I make an EFI...

Need a bit of help here. I've been trying everything I could think of for the past 3 days but nothing is working out for me. I'm trying to set up W7 on my laptop, which already has Vista installed as the primary OS, and Ubuntu as a second OS. I was hoping the set up W7 as my third, but I've...

I have an Acer Aspire one AOA150 8.9" screen, 1GB of RAM, Intel GMA950, Intel Atom N270, and 160GB HDD. I have three partitions set up: one for XP, one for sharing files, and one for Windows 7 Build 7000. The problem is when I go to start Windows 7 I see the Vista loading screen with the green...

I downloaded the Windows 7 Build 7000 Beta today with the product key and I'm trying to install it on a Dell E520 desktop. Just to complicate matters, this machine already has Windows XP (installed on a primary partition) and Ubuntu Linux (installed on an extended partition). I created a 75 GB...

i don't have a lot of experience with multiple partitions, i don't really have a use for them. i'd like to try Windows 7 on a seperate partition. i have 2x 250 WD HDs in my computer, but i'd like to use my primary since it has Vista and the other is for storage only. also theres only about...

Hi, i've got xp and win7 on dual boot on 2 partitions on 1 hd and now want to add vista 64bit to play about with, would the boot sequence be screwed up as vista probably wouldn't recognise win7 with it being newer than vista. or would installing it on a seperate hd completely be a better idea...

I have a an advent qc430 laptop which i bought with vita home premium installed on it, whch was fine untill i needed more room for all my stuff so i bought an external hdd drive case because i had a spare 80gb hdd drive which needed formating. i tried to format it in vista but i kept getting...

hi there, I'm a new vista user, I'm still discovering....and I've some troubles I want to set up 3 OS (XP/Vista/linux). The last I've installed (Vista), installed its own boot loader (bcd) obviously on disk1, partition1 (partition with XP). Is there a way to install bcd on partition 2...