@ kanatx - Quote: "Does anyone have any experience or thoughts on dual booting win7 and vista?"
I tried dual-booting Vista and W7 briefly on my laptop which I bought with Vista Home Premium on it. I installed W7 Ultimate on it in a separate partition ............. there's just "no competition" kanatx , I soon rid my laptop of the Vista and use only W7 on it now! Vista soon became "redundant", I never bothered using it once I tried W7 out!
W7 is far superior and once you use it I can't see that you'll want to use Vista again, ever!