| Windows 7: Dual booting with windows 7 & xp |
21 Oct 2012
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#1 | | windows 7 ultimate 32 bit WEST BENGAL, INDIA |
Dual booting with windows 7 & xp My PC is installed with Windows 7 at Drive - C. Today due to necessity I installed XP in Drive - D. After successful installation, I went for restart the system. But after booting, at the firsthand XP is opening. Now there is no scope for me to choose between Windows 7 & XP. How to overcome this ? | My System Specs |
| OS windows 7 ultimate 32 bit CPU FRONTECH Motherboard INTEL PENTIUM(R) D CPU 2.80ghZ Hard Drives WESTON AND SEAGATE |
21 Oct 2012
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#2 | | Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit NC |
Is this dual boot setup on one single drive or on two different hard drives? Is the XP install activated as the primary drive? Can you post a screen shot of your disk management window? | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom built OS Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit CPU AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Motherboard Gigabyte GA-MA790X-DS4 Memory GSkill 4 X 2 GB PC 8500 Graphics Card XFX Radeon HD 6790 D Sound Card On board RealTek HD Monitor(s) Displays Dual monitors:Samsung SyncMaster S20B300 Screen Resolution 1600 X 900 Keyboard Logitech G510 Mouse Razor DeathAdder PSU Ultra X4 750 watt fully modular Case Thermaltake Overseer RX 1 full tower Cooling Core-Contact 92 mm CPU Cooler Hard Drives Seagate Barracuda 1TB (primary)
Seagate Barracuda 2 X 320 GB Internet Speed 50/5 Mbps UL/DL Other Info Optical: Super Muliti DVD burner w/lightscribe, Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1800 |
21 Oct 2012
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#3 | | Windows 7 Home Premium x64 |

Quote: Originally Posted by ANUPAM MITRA My PC is installed with Windows 7 at Drive - C. Today due to necessity I installed XP in Drive - D. After successful installation, I went for restart the system. But after booting, at the firsthand XP is opening. Now there is no scope for me to choose between Windows 7 & XP. How to overcome this ? Try visiting the following link for some help; http://maketecheasier.com/how-to-dual-boot-windows-xp-and-vista/2008/12/15
(yes, I know it says Vista, but it will work with Windows 7)
Scroll down to the section; Dual boot WinXP with Vista pre-installed HTH | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom Built OS Windows 7 Home Premium x64 CPU Intel i5 quad processor Motherboard DP67BG Memory 16 GB Graphics Card Radeon HD 5770 Sound Card Realtek High Definition Audio Monitor(s) Displays Samsung SyncMaster Screen Resolution 1920X1080 Keyboard MS Wireless Mouse MS Optical Wired PSU Corsair GS800 Case Tower (Generic) Cooling 3 Internal Fans Hard Drives WD 2TB (SATA Internal)
WD 1TB (USB External) Internet Speed 19.4 Mbps |
21 Oct 2012
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#4 | | windows 7 ultimate 32 bit WEST BENGAL, INDIA |

Quote: Originally Posted by bassfisher6522 Is this dual boot setup on one single drive or on two different hard drives? Is the XP install activated as the primary drive? Can you post a screen shot of your disk management window? Windows 7 & XP are on one single hard disk, i.e. in C and D respectively. However, as desired the screen shot of disk management is attached herwith. | My System Specs | | OS windows 7 ultimate 32 bit CPU FRONTECH Motherboard INTEL PENTIUM(R) D CPU 2.80ghZ Hard Drives WESTON AND SEAGATE |
21 Oct 2012
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#5 | | Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit SP 1 The North Star state |
Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP
In this tutorial scroll down to Option 2 and then start with step 7. It will show you how to use a program called EasyBCD to add a boot entry to your XP bootloader so that you can set up a dual boot option screen on startup. Since your XP disk is the boot disk in your system, you will need to install EasyBCD there. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Customized build from CyberPower OS Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit SP 1 CPU Intel i5 2500k Motherboard Asus P8P67 Deluxe Memory 8 gigabytes Corsair PC3-12800 DDR3 Graphics Card EVGA GeForce GTX 460 superclocked Sound Card Integrated Monitor(s) Displays ViewSonic 23" LCD Screen Resolution 1980 x 1080 Keyboard Logitech USB Mouse Microsoft 3 button PSU Coolermaster 1000 watt modular Case Coolermaster HAF X full tower Cooling Coolermaster Hyper 212 plus Hard Drives 120 Gb Samsung 840 Pro SSD
120 Gb Kingston Hyper X SSD
1 Tb WD Caviar Black HDD Internet Speed download 1.5 Mb/sec upload 300Kb/sec |
22 Oct 2012
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#6 | | windows 7 ultimate 32 bit WEST BENGAL, INDIA |

Quote: Originally Posted by LittleJay Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP
In this tutorial scroll down to Option 2 and then start with step 7. It will show you how to use a program called EasyBCD to add a boot entry to your XP bootloader so that you can set up a dual boot option screen on startup. Since your XP disk is the boot disk in your system, you will need to install EasyBCD there. Yes, it is done by installing EasyBCD. However, after booting when the page came for choice, there are three choices, viz. Windows 7 and Windows XP twice. Please go through the attached picture. How to solve it? | My System Specs | | OS windows 7 ultimate 32 bit CPU FRONTECH Motherboard INTEL PENTIUM(R) D CPU 2.80ghZ Hard Drives WESTON AND SEAGATE |
22 Oct 2012
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#7 | | windows 7 ultimate 32 bit WEST BENGAL, INDIA |

Quote: Originally Posted by LittleJay Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP
In this tutorial scroll down to Option 2 and then start with step 7. It will show you how to use a program called EasyBCD to add a boot entry to your XP bootloader so that you can set up a dual boot option screen on startup. Since your XP disk is the boot disk in your system, you will need to install EasyBCD there. Yes, it is done by installing EasyBCD. However, after booting when the page for choice appeared, now there are three choices, viz. Windows 7 & Windows XP twice, all are opening properly. However, I had installed Windows XP once only. A picture of the page is attached herewith. How to resolve it? | My System Specs | | OS windows 7 ultimate 32 bit CPU FRONTECH Motherboard INTEL PENTIUM(R) D CPU 2.80ghZ Hard Drives WESTON AND SEAGATE |
22 Oct 2012
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#8 | | Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1 Philadelphia, PA |
I am guessing I'm too late, but the easiest way is to virtualize XP, rather than dual-boot. | My System Specs | | OS Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1 CPU Intel Core i7-2600 Motherboard Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3P-B3 Memory 12 GB Patriot Extreme DDR3-1333 Graphics Card Nvidia GTX 470 Monitor(s) Displays Dell UltraSharp 2209WA PSU OCZ ModStream 700W Case CoolerMaster HAF 912 Advanced Cooling CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Plus Hard Drives OCZ Agility3 240 GB, WD5001AALS, WD7501AALS |
22 Oct 2012
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#9 | | Windows 7 Home Premium x64 |

Quote: Originally Posted by DeaconFrost I am guessing I'm too late, but the easiest way is to virtualize XP, rather than dual-boot. Better late than never and it's what I do; no wonder I like it. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom Built OS Windows 7 Home Premium x64 CPU Intel i5 quad processor Motherboard DP67BG Memory 16 GB Graphics Card Radeon HD 5770 Sound Card Realtek High Definition Audio Monitor(s) Displays Samsung SyncMaster Screen Resolution 1920X1080 Keyboard MS Wireless Mouse MS Optical Wired PSU Corsair GS800 Case Tower (Generic) Cooling 3 Internal Fans Hard Drives WD 2TB (SATA Internal)
WD 1TB (USB External) Internet Speed 19.4 Mbps |
22 Oct 2012
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#10 | | windows 7 ultimate 32 bit WEST BENGAL, INDIA |

Quote: Originally Posted by DeaconFrost I am guessing I'm too late, but the easiest way is to virtualize XP, rather than dual-boot. Yes, I have been advised so elsewhere by my other friends. But in that case I should like to delete XP. By opening Windows 7, should I simply format the drive where XP is stored? Any guidance? | My System Specs | | OS windows 7 ultimate 32 bit CPU FRONTECH Motherboard INTEL PENTIUM(R) D CPU 2.80ghZ Hard Drives WESTON AND SEAGATE Dual booting with windows 7 & xp problems? All times are GMT -5. The time now is 09:24 AM. | |