I’ve been meaning to install windows 7 on my laptop which was dual booting vista and ubuntu no problem. My end goal was to have vista, 7, and ubuntu next to each other. I decided that I also wanted a clean install of ubuntu. So I started out today by deleteing all the linux partitions and installing 7 on it. When it restarted I only had a blinking line. So I fixed mbr and fix boot. I fear that installing 7 in the free space beside vista and using a 7 install disk to fix the mbr it has damaged my vista partition. When I run a live cd it looks like all my files from vista are there but when I restart and try to boot it tells me I have a disk read error, please press ctrl+alt+del. ubuntu sees my vista partition as a windows 7 (loader) and it sees the 7 partition as just a nfts filesystem. Any ideas on how I can get vista to boot again?
Thanks for the help, but I figured it out a diffrent way.
1) I used gparted to remove the boot flag from the dead vista partition.
2) Installed 7 on a new partiton
3) Used the repair option on the vista disk, which automatically added the “recovered” vista partition to the boot loader and it boots.
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you need to have 4 partitions of which only one is active. If you made the other partitions active then you heed to format the hdd completely to one partition then create the others again. They are all primary partitions but only C drive is active.
you need to research how many partitions your computer can support, although this is more to do with older pc’s. It may be linked with how many other ide devices you got. (devices plugged into the ribbon)
Put the oldest OS on the first partition, etc and your own files on the fourth.
You need to load common programs on each partition, eg antivirus, and any other program you want to use on each OS,
I havent got win7 but my friends suggest you might as well blow Vista away, as it is resource hungry. win7 is vista done right.
Name your partitions, because on some computers, the one you boot on is automatically called C drive.
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