2012/8/20 Conan Doyle <[log in to unmask]>:
> After numerous searches on how to setup CentOS 6.3 and Win7 to dual boot I
> turn to the readers of this forum for help...
>
> I suppose my question is quite simple:
>
> What is the correct way to set up a dual boot system for CentOS 6.3, or SL
> 6.3, and Windows 7?
>
> I have tried several times, with several variations, but run into the same
> problem: After installing Win7, then CentOS, the machine boots straight into
> Win7 and no grub menu appears...
>
> I have a pretty new system that I built in Nov 2012: i5-2500K, Gigabyte
> GA-Z68XP-UD3 mobo, 8GB RAM, eVGA NVIDIA GTX 560 card, and two 1 TB SATA
> drives.
>
> My first attempt was to install Win7 on drive 0 then install CentOS on drive
> 1, with grub installed in the /boot partition which was on /dev/sdb1.
> Apparently there were some issues with this due to Win7, UEFI, etc. I didn't
> really understand all these problems so I tried again.
>
> My second attempt was to try to disable the EFI stuff in BIOS and install
> WinXP, then install Win7 over this to avoid the system restore partition,
> and EFI issues etc. then install CentOS over this, again installing grub to
> /boot, which was /dev/sdb1.
>
> I noticed the default location for grub was /dev/sda, which is the windows
> disk... Would this not hose up the windows install?
>
> I have set up Windows/CentOS dual booting before, but not on this machine,
> and not with CentOS 6.3. Any help would be appreciated more than you can
> imagine...
>
>
> I have been a CentOS user for a while, but I am intrigued by SL, and would
> definitely jump ship to SL if I can get it dual booting with Win7...
>
> Ed

First, you have to install windows and keep some space to your Linux.
Linux will autodetect Windows, but Windows will not detect Linuxes.

-- 
Henrique "LonelySpooky" Junior