How to enable Dual Boot?

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  1. Posts : 61
    Windows 7 64-Bit
       #1

    How to enable Dual Boot?


    So currently I have Windows 7 64-Bit as my Default OS.
    And I have XP on my hard drive on another partition.




    But look at Boot:



    How can I re-enable Windows XP on dual boot? Last time I had it on dual boot, it gave me an option. Windows 7 or Windows XP. I want that back :P
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  2. whs
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       #2

    Have a look HERE. Look further on the page until you find: " Adding a Windows XP entry with EasyBCD ".
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  3. Posts : 61
    Windows 7 64-Bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Thanks, trying it right now. If it works I'll report back
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  4. Posts : 61
    Windows 7 64-Bit
    Thread Starter
       #4

    Ok in easybcd I did add entry Microsoft xp.
    Now when I turn on my computer and it goes past bios it says invalid boot.ini file starting from c:/windows/ and keeps booting over and over again. I tried my system recovery disk I made and it says something in French then it says invalid boot.ini like last time so I'm screwed. I'm on my iPod.. :/
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  5. Posts : 61
    Windows 7 64-Bit
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Managed to fix it, it just happens that the French words were saying "Press any button" lol
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  6. whs
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    Sometimes foreign languages helped. Too bad you did not tell what it said. French is my second mother language.
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  7. Posts : 61
    Windows 7 64-Bit
    Thread Starter
       #7

    Hmm so what do you think I should do? Seeing as easybcd just corrupts my boot.ini file :x
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  8. whs
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  9.    #9

    Please post back a screenshot of your maximized Disk Management drive map with listings, using the Snipping Tool in Start Menu.

    Did XP ever boot? Was it configured into a Dual Boot during Win7 install? What happened that caused it to stop booting?
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  10. Posts : 61
    Windows 7 64-Bit
    Thread Starter
       #10

    Screensnapr > Snipping tool BTW


    XP never booted. When it went past BIOS, all it said was this:
    INVALID BOOT.INI
    Starting from c:\windows\

    And it just kept looping over and over with that message. I fixed it using a start up recovery disk.
    @whs I will try that!



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    What I did on EasyBCD:
    I added this entry:
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