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Thanks for such a detailed reply. I think I have done it. I googled this issue and found many people have no luck with it. At least I got the already installed Windows 7 to boot and show all partitions and hence got no data loss.
I used Hiren boot cd and it it i used the software TestDisk (free software) and it solved the issue if lost partition then i used windows 7 recovery environment and did repair three times in a row until it found no Problem.
But I still cannot boot into xp as Windows 7 is not showing ig and i have yet to find a way to add XP to the list of oses shown at startup. Though easybcd would do but I m searching for some Microsoft way of making 7 show xp in the list of oses to boot.
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after some more tinkering with diskpart and active option now my boot screen is showing four entries here is a snap of them
Out of these four only two are working. One is the XP one other is the windows 7 ultimate recovered entry.
Also here are screen shots of startup and recovery tab from both oses.
It is pertinent to mention that i had earlier installed easybcd on xp machine and had played with it in order to get Windows 7 in the list of available oses. And in the process I also added iso of windows 7 recovery environment to the boot entry.
Why is this so. I just want two entries on the list and both working. How to bring those two entries?
Who the hell is showing me these four entries? In windows 7 in startup and recovery it only shows one entry that labelled as windows 7 ultimate recovered. And the boot menu displayed at the beginning of system boot is obviously generated by 7 as xp can't do that i mean it can't boot 7.
And inside xp there is just one entry which is labelled windows xp which is working.
The two un needed entries are
One is of windows 7
Secondly is created by the easybcd which has its installed in xp. But opening easy bcd in xp shows that I have no entry. And u have also used the write windows 7 vista MBR option from it in order to stop it from overtaking the task of displaying the oses to boot
Last edited by chamjiee; 17 Apr 2013 at 03:53.