Windows 7 - trying it out in dual-boot

Has anyone managed to install Windows 7 in dual boot on an Acer laptop?

I have a Travelmate 5720G with Vista Home Premium OEM installed. A while back I removed the hidden recovery partition and resized the C partition to use the freed up space. So it should now be like an ordinary Vista installation.

I now want to try out Windows 7 so I thought I'd install it in dual-boot on my laptop. So I tried installing Windows 7 on the E partition (which I previously deleted and re-created as empty). All seemed to go well until the last step of the installation failed with the error message box

"Windows could not update the computer's boot configuration. Installation could not proceed."

Now my PC has a boot manager which lists Vista and Windows 7. Vista still boots and works perfectly. Windows 7 seems to boot OK with a pretty background image but then pops up an error message box - the only thing that can be done then is click the OK button to restart the computer.

Has anyone got past this problem and managed to install Windows 7 in dual-boot?

 

But it doesn't.

Acer laptops seem to have some tweaks to the MBR, probably to allow the hidden recovery partition to work. So I suspect that it may be even more difficult to load Windows 7 as dual-boot on an off-the-shelf Acer laptop than it is on my laptop where I thought I'd completely removed the hidden partition and made my laptop like a "standard" vista installation.

Again, has anyone actually managed to install Windows 7 in dual-boot configuration on a Vista Acer laptop?