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Yes that is exactly what I am doing. I am familier with Easy BCD and it ment no pain, lost boots, recovery repairs and so on. I have three other OS on there one of which is for Virtual Machines so is kind of leaner than the other 2. Easy BCD alows you to back up the old config and also the new one. Well recommended tool.
It's easy enough to set GRUB to default boot Windows via the Windows bootloader (using a timeout).
You need to edit one text file.
I have XP, W7 and Linux Mint 14 MATE on my PC (I don't have the System Reserved partition).
My PC loads GRUB and if I don't select anything (after timeout), it then loads the Windows 7 boot menu, which loads W7 (after timeout).
I think that with your proposed setup, if the Windows bootloader "goes belly up" you won't be able to load Linux either (to fix Windows).
With the GRUB setup, I can still load Linux if Windows has died (obviously if GRUB "goes belly up" I can't load anything).
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