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June 29th, 2011
How to Dual Boot Windows 7 32-Bit with Windows 7 64-Bit -
Part 1

Dual Booting Windows 7 using a single new hard drive.
Although it does not matter which version (32-Bit or 64-Bit) of Windows you install first, for this article the 32-Bit version will be installed first, followed by the 64-Bit version. You could of course install two 32Bit versions or two 64Bit versions, however a 32Bit / 64Bit dual boot environment gives you the best of both worlds.

How to Dual Boot Windows 7 32-Bit with Windows 7 64-Bit - Part 2
Installing the second bootable version of Windows on your disk drive: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.


June 9th, 2010
How to repair a Windows 7 Dual Boot computer after a hard drive failure
These instructions will show you how repair and change a Dual Boot computer back to a Single Boot system if your primary Windows 7 hard drive has failed, has been removed or formatted.

During the boot process you see the following error message:
“DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT DISK AND PRESS ENTER”.  

May 7th, 2010
How to remove Windows XP from a Windows 7
Dual Boot computer
Windows XP is the original operating system installed on your computer’s hard drive. You then installed Windows 7 on the same drive and created “Dual-Boot” system. Windows XP is no longer needed and you want to know how to uninstall it.

Windows 7 Dual or Multi Boot: 
What happens if you remove Windows XP,
Part 1
You have a Dual-Boot Windows XP and Windows 7 computer but after using Windows 7 for a while you decide that XP is no longer needed, so you deleted it by reformatting the partition. Unfortunately after deleting Windows XP you find that your Dual-Boot computer will no longer boot to Windows 7.


Windows 7 Dual or Multi Boot:
What happens if I remove Windows XP,
Part 2
Unfortunately after deleting Windows XP you find that your Dual-Boot computer will no longer boot to Windows 7.

Windows 7 - Dual Boot, Triple Boot, Quad Boot, Penta, Hexa, Hepta (7) Boot and beyond
This breaks the common misconception that Windows Multi-Boot configurations must be installed on “Primary” partitions.