Successfull Dual Boot - An update

Great "how-to" William,

Just thought I'd make a quick post that the proceedure works very well. There seem to be a preponderance of posts from those who had, or are still having, problems.

The proceedure was not without hiccups, the bootrec.exe steps failed for me, but an alternative solution was found. Suffice it to say the boot manager DOES need to be fixed for the computer to boot back into Vista and to finally dual boot. There are other posts in this thread that explain how this can be done.

As far as the "full Vista install" dvd that some are asking about - this is needed in William's explaination to fix the boot manager - the notebook that I installed a dual boot on was supplied with a "Windows Anytime Upgrade" dvd. This can be used to perform the "Repair your computer" step 3.

I know that HP and Toshiba do not supply this dvd with their consumer notebooks, I am glad that I purchased a "cheaper" model to do my dual boot!

This is just to encourage those who have tried and failed to get the dual boot to work - it does!!!!! and I am a happy bunny.
Martin