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Date:      Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:53:42 +0000
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: win 7 dual boot
Message-ID:  <20091028095342.00000940@unknown>
In-Reply-To: <4AE7A843.4060300@gmail.com>
References:  <4AE7A843.4060300@gmail.com>

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On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:11:15 -0400
"Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am about to go out and buy windows 7 to replace my vista
> partition... when I installed vista I had to  do some  boot manager
> tricks (both before and after install)... namely I had to allow
> windows to nuke my mbr then use EasyBCD to remake it in such a way
> that vista would still find it's "magic" bytes in the mbr... does
> anyone know if win 7 has any similar issues and/or any other
> weirdness in reguards to dual booting?

EasyBCD still works, but you'll need to register on the site and
download the beta of 2.0 from the forums - the 1.x version won't work.

-- 
Bruce Cran



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