Oops, thank you Gunther. They have been corrected.
I have mine set to boot from the CD/DVD first to, so that should not be it. You can do as John mentioned with EasyBCD. Steps 6 to 14 in the tutorial below can be a good example to compare with.
Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP
What I meant was that since you told it to install to the new HD, and it saw the old Vista partition, it may have temporarily made the Win 7 HD the bootable HD and placed the boot partition on the new drive, avoiding having to mes with the Vista partition - but then it also left the Vista partition alone, which is the default drive set to boot up off of in BIOS....
And I am using Avast! free perfectly fine, along with MBAM (paid).
I cannot say one way or another b/c I have stopped having a backup Vista - I use nothing but Win 7, and I have not installed the RC yet....
so when getting avast.. what version did you get. do they have a Win 7 yet? or what did you download for. vista, or xp or what?
Also yea I could try EasyBCD or whatever. but I'd rather fix whatever this problem is.
Avast! free - get the current version. 4.8?
Yah, 4.8 Home Edition.
As for fixing the problem - post a screenie of your HD management - I can almost bet it put the boot partition on hte new drive, hence the fact that Vista is not seeing Win 7 and vice versa....
I think your right.. it put BOOT on the new drive.
and there is also some weird **** called system reserved that I've not seen before.
Here is a screeny. (WOW Paint is WEIRD)
Good point, John.
Maybe 7 only checks for active partitions on the HD you point it at - ignoring the others.
OUCHHH I just smashed my hand and tore the skin off.. I'm bleeding. crapp!
So what is that system reserved junk.. is that the system restore info that Windows automatically saves??
i see.. so seeing that. did it help you decide why I'm not getting a dual boot option?
thanks for help guys!
Nope - like I said - that is *normal* on a new clean install.
Since you installed to a separate HD, it seems as if Windows tried to be helpful an completely left the Vista install virginal. Again, you can fix that with EasyBCD - but I'd go through the install again and see if you happened to have set an option to not modify your original boot files / installation, which may have caused this segregation of the OSs....
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