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Win7 is trespassing
after merely thinking about it for a year i finally installed 32bit win7
i have 3 drives
on the first i have 32bit winxp and 64bit winxp on two 31gb partitions
everything was working great
then i installed 32bit win7 on one of the two 65gb partitions i had ready on hdd 2
the unpleasant surprise came when i tried to boot up my winxp
apparently win7 infiltrated boot information on the hdd with my xp systems on it instead of just keeping everything on its own partition and hdd
this opens many questions for me:
should i have unplugged the winxp drive before installing win7 to prevent this?
are there other ways of keeping the systems completey isolated on their drives?
will the win7 installation work if i remove/format the partitions with winxp on them?
will my winxp systems work if i delete win7?
i find it extremely annoying that when i want to use my 64bit winxp i first need to click on older windows in one boot screen and then on another boot screen i select 64bit winxp
i can preselect the most desired option in both screens and reduce counters, but why 2 boot screens in the first place?
heres my boot.ini
and my boot.bak (does this even do anything? i deleted it to get rid of the w7 boot screen and nothing happened)[boot loader]
timeout=8
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional x64 Edition" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT /USEPMTIMER
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT /USEPMTIMER
my intention is to compare all 4 systems (xp-32, xp-64, w7-32 and w7-64) and then install the best 2 on my 3rd drive for optimum compatibility with all software[boot loader]
timeout=8
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional x64 Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /usepmtimer
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /usepmtimer
can i get everything in order by installing 64bit win7 in a particular way?