Tri-Boot Project Phase 3

Tri-Boot Project Phase 3
Installing Windows 7.

This is the installation is Windows 7 beta build 6801
As I mentioned before, Windows 7 works a lot like Vista in many way. Its almost like Vista 1.0 (where the initial release is Vista 0.5, and Vista SP1 is Vista 0.7) Because of this, one could assume Vista and her twin sister Win 7 would boot in the same manner. I mentioned the whole boot loader issue between XP and vista. But I will explain further how I got the XP and 7 to play nicely together.

Although you can edit the MBR with the command prompt, this is very difficult to do. So to simplify this, I used a program called EasyBCD. This really did make the process easy. One little issue I did run into though, 7 would not recognize the hard drive that had XP on it. After a bit of playing around, I got the system to recognize, although in the process I deleted the MBR (oops). This was easily fixed by throwing the disk back in there and running the system restore.

One thing I thought was pretty awesome was the fact that Windows 7 quickly found all of my drivers with the exception of the Sound Card (Diamond 7.1). This is including the Buffalo wireless card, which on installation, wanted me to set this up to my router, pretty sweet.

Tomorrow I am going to get Ubuntu installed and get this onto the boot loader system.