Howtoforge posted a tutorial about setting up a dual boot between Windows 7 and Linux Mint 12
Dualbooting means having installed two operating systems on one hard disk and being able to boot from any of them. This tutorial will explain how to install Linux Mint 12 alongside Windows 7 - the procedure however should be the same for all Ubuntu based distributions and only slightly different for every other.Dualbooting Windows 7 And Linux Mint 12