Comments on Dualbooting Windows 7 And Linux Mint 12

I agree with letting the OS installer do the formatting etc.  Rather than try to understand that windows shrinking episode;  if you aren't concerned with home parts. etc and just want Mint and windows dual boot, it is a lot easier to just click "install along-side windows" and let the installer do it all.  Later  you can use the linux partition tool (Gparted) to set up other partitions or free space, orrr, shrink partitions if you wish.  This way Linux will set up swap space, make a windows recovery option in the Grub page, and Linux recovery.  I've always had 99.9% luck letting Linux do the work.  

i have multiple hard drives. can i create a partition on one of the other hard drives, install Mint there and still use dual boot?

yes you can, what i did was. I disconnected all my hdd exept for the one i wanted mint on, installed mint on that drive once mint was installed and rebooted updated all the packages installed graphics drivers and anything else i would need and use, i shut down the pc unplugged the drive mint is on and plugged back in my windows drive and booted up, to make sure windows started fine. then shut down plugged back in the drive with mint on it leaving all the other drives plugged in, booted back up into the bios and told the system to boot off the drive i have windows on. restarted the machine and windows boot fine, restarted and my motherboard allows for me to choose a boot device by pressing f11  yours may not i don't know, but if it does you just choose wich drive you want to boot from and it should boot fine. this worked for me maybe it will work for you aswell. The reason i did it this way was i did not want mint on my windows drive just in case something went wrong with the install. if windows boot loader gets corrupted you can fix it if you have the windows installation or recover cd by booting up the recovery or installation cd and openting up the cmd promt and typing "bootrec/fixmbr" then press enter and type "bootrec/fix boot" press enter and then restart. the machine.

Good article as far as it goes. If win 7 is installed on certain laptops you'll not be successful. The graphics card installed that use 1360x768 won't be recognized by any new Linux distro. I know this because this laptop (Acer) useas this cheapo setup and modern Linux's don't work ..

It is time to use a computer for Windows and another computer for Linux.

Think of the UEFI & MS Secure Boot story... :shock:

wait until you want to flash the bios on the linux computer. It unravels if the mobo manufacturer does not like linux and only makes updates available via Windoze

Thanku for sharing.

Well I tried that using:

su

password

logged on as administrator

sudo nano........grub.cfg

file came up, changed 0 to a 4

could not save or get out of terminal using exit

so - what is the rest of the procedure?