Vista / Win 7 RC Dual Boot Upgrade Question

mvannie, here goes, thanks to my friend Ken: yes, the bootloader and files are in the Vista partition. When you delete it you will have to run BCDedit (see BCDEDIT - How to Use) and edit the boot settings, removing Vista. When you install RTM you will have a new menu with the RC and RTM. Both will Show "Windows 7" , you can edit the name, check Dual Boot - Change OS Name in Windows Boot Manager
Good luck, let's us know how it works out

zigzag3143 said:

MV

Hi

1-when you format vista its gone. at that point you wont have a dual boot, only a win 7 rc partition.
2- you can choose whatever parttiton you want but I think you already chose the vista partition.
3-vista is first on the disk you will lose the boot setting but there is a built in editor called BCDedit that you can use to modify after the rtm install.

Let us know if you have any more questions

Ken

I hadn't seen Ken's post until today (that "page" thing always confuses me...). I had the order of events mixed a little on my post. But I hope the tutorials help
Let us know

mvannie said:

Thanks for all your help. I have everything booting, and I am happily typing this from my RTM install!

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