Multibooters + Dual and Multibooting with Vista
http://www.multibooters.co.uk/cloning.html

This site’s main aim is to understand Vista’s boot requirements,
particularly with regards to third-party boot managers and cloning.


Vista Boot Floppy http://www.multibooters.co.uk/floppy.html
How to make a boot floppy disk that works for Vista.
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Windows Seven + Multibooters - June 2009
http://www.multibooters.co.uk/articles/windows_seven.html

The core boot files of Vista and Seven are the same, so in most regards the main
content of this web site should apply equally to both operating systems.
A few differences have been noted but these may not be present in the final release
or all intended versions of Seven, so testing has not yet been extensive and no
assurances are offered for any of the current findings.

Win7 creates partitions to the same plan as Vista, so the same multibooting issues apply
- see Vista’s new partitioning rules http://www.multibooters.co.uk/partitions.html
The bugs in Vista that can delete entire partitions have not been fixed in Seven
- see Disappearing Partitions http://www.multibooters.co.uk/quirks.html#disappearing_partitions

Win7 Setup Routines
If you follow the install instructions in the first three paragraphs of this section on the Vista
installing page it will produce the same results for Win7 Ultimate RC1. You should however
disregard the forth paragraph in that section as there has been a change to the way the
Win7 setup will handle free space. If you point the Win7 install to unpartitioned space in a
machine that does not already have an active primary partition on the boot hard drive,
then setup will without any notification create an extra small partition just for the main boot files
to reside on. This partition will be a small 100MB primary on the boot hard drive and it will become
the active System partition to the Boot partition of your new Win7 install. The files placed on this
tiny partition will be bootmgr and the Boot folder, (and bootsect.bak, a backup of the MBR and
PBR). The partition will be labelled as ‘System Reserved’ and will not be mounted or assigned a
drive letter inside Windows 7 so most users will not be aware of its existence.
The operating system will not have those boot files on its own partition,
which will have obvious consequences for imaging and cloning.

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Portables Tool für Backup / Restore MBR (Master Boot Record) + PBR (Partition Boot Record)