Thread: Double boot with windows 7

Yesterday I bought a new hard drive and went for a dual boot configuration data such as sda1 and sda2 as Windows 7. Then I formed an image of my Windows partition with ntfsclone, re-portions to my sda: sda1 boot, sda2 / sda3 empty ntfs partition. Now, I installed Gentoo and changed my large partition Windows 7 via boot sda3 Gentoo ntfsclone fine except I can not understand why GRUB can not boot my Windows 7. How can it be

I tried to modify the device and partitions the reporting unit\Device\HarddiskVolume3 unless it's stupid to change it immediately to C windows. Perhaps this seems to be OK, but it did not help in any way and I have not thought about what really happens when the cursor just sits there and blinks when I select Windows in the GRUB menu. I say it looks like she just can not find the right files at startup and just hangs on the grounds that

I recently installed Windows 7 on a laptop with dual boot, the startup has changed a lot of time, while Windows XP. I might as well read reports about suspend / hibernate problems when starting grub; Windows, so I am determined to play as safe as possible and start additional method around (Windows bootloader grub). I left the Windows partition unaccompanied, except to reduce the large C: partition from inside Windows 7 using the disk manager

Window 7 Boot Configuration Data Editor must be used to configure Windows 7 to display a menu next to the starting time will allow the user to choose between Windows 7 and a Linux distribution of choice. Distribution of Windows 7 and Linux will remain the same material in the disk. Set up a bcdedit to distinguish and launch a Linux distribution at the top of the next physical disk is not known to me yet.

If a machine operating Windows 7 running system to set up Windows Vista (and get a dual boot system), there may be troubles with the loading of the existing machine, Windows 7 This ruminates the fact that as Windows Vista also utilize a boot manager and a information of BCD, as Windows 7, but the boot in its before edition and does not offer fresh chances.