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How to add Windows 7 to boot manager?
i've had an interesting time with my computer lately and really could use some help to put myself at ease.
first of all i already have both XP(32) and Win7(64) installed but yesterday XP crapped out on me with a corrupted DLL file that didn't let me boot up into XP again.
i ran windows repair but because of a weird combination of unofficial sound drivers and the part of the installation process where all my devices(mouse, keyboard etc.) were seemingly cut off i couldn't proceed since i was prompted a choice i couldn't do anything with.
also, apparently the XP repair/installation process removes your old boot settings so i couldn't get into 7 either so i thought i was locked out from both of my drives though luckily i managed to solve it by doing a new XP install on top of the old one and could at least back up all my files before more things screwed up.
so basically i've got a new XP install and an old Win7 install but have no idea how to access win7 on my other drive since the boot option was removed.
i was going to just install win7 again but on top of all this when i boot up my win7 CD, it comes to a blue screen with a mouse cursor and apparently just hangs with nothing happening.
so basically:
-is it possible to add win7 to your boot manager from XP and if so, how?
-if that fails, how do you get past the blank/blue screen after booting up the win7 CD? there were no problems when i first installed win7.
thx alot.
Last edited by seraphryu; 20 Oct 2010 at 03:40.