dual boot win vista and 7

i have an asus g50vt-x5 im kind of new to computer world but loving it. i have a copy of windows 7 b64 and my boot disk 4 vista that came with the laptop as well as the driver disk. how can i dual boot these together and what would i gain?? please help! thanks guys!!

 

download g-parted and partition your hard drive then boot up your windows 7 disc then click install. Make sure you install on the empty partition and then ur done

you will have a choice to boot up now

 

You dont even have to download anything vista has a partition manager built in.

Just go to the windows start button --> right click on computer --> select manage --> click on disk management --> select your drive with a right click --> shrink volume

Take the new unpartitioned space and right click it, make a new volume.

Install Win 7 on the new volume and it will do the rest for you.

 

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Yep, exactly.

After installing, when you start up your computer, you'll get a menu of the two Operating Systems, and you choose which one you want to boot into.

 

Thanks Guys

 

I Downloaded Win 7 THE OTHER DAY made a boot dvd downloaded it on the new partition And When I Click On It It Says Cannot Open This Program Use A Web Service Or A Program From The Computer Whats The Deal

 

Hmm, not fully understanding what you did...


The Windows 7 file should be an .iso
Use PowerISO to burn the bootable disk.
Then, put in the disk and boot from the disk (via Boot Menu from splash screen)
The Windows 7 Installation will start up, you select the partition you made for 7, and install it on there.

 

sounds like you burned the disk as a data disk instead of an image, so the disk itself has the .iso on it.

you can confirm by opening the dvd in windows if you see a bunch of folders & files it should be ok, if you just see a .iso file you did it wrong.

 

i didnt say the vista route because it sucks .... it refused to partition mine and .. gparted is so much nicer

 

never failed me and did everything I need it to, cant say it sucks.

I use partition magic if I want an advanced program for some reason.

 

yea i tried to get vista to partition set it to 16 gig and hit shrink 3 hours later it hadn't moved so i waited another 3 hours and no move so i said screw it

 

What? takes like 10 seconds for me lol.

Must have had a malfunction there.

 

yup and i went back to try it again and i couldn't partition any more then 512 mbs.... so i just booted g parted ...had issues with drivers when boting off that btw had to use commands to boot to standard driver

 

i figured it out thanks guys i would of done something wrong without your help!!!