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Can I preserve my windows 7 installation?
Hy ..
Please help, I have a problem
I'm not very familiar with installing os's or booting or forums
I started by reading so many posts until I began to understand nothing... And so, I decided to search from help here, from people more experienced
I had xp installed on my computer
Bought a new harddrive and connected
Formatted and installed Win seven on it (not sure how, it was a half year ago)
Until now I have dual boot option, where I can choose xp or seven
In time, xp install has become corrupted somehow, it freezes withowt any reason, nearly every hour ...
Now I want to reinstall xp in the same partition where it was (hdd 1), without loosing or needing to repair the seven installation from my second hdd
Before doing this, I disconnected the hdd and tryed to boot seprately:
-with the hdd 1 connected alone(xp install), it keeps the dual boot options, but only boot in xp, "seven" option giving error
-with the second hdd(seven installation) connected alone, I have a boot device error at powering up my computer
I have a "boot" folder, but only on my first hdd (xp installation), on the second hdd is missing. Also "ntldr", and "ntdetect"... If I will format this hdd, they will be erased...
Should I try to copy/paste these over my second hdd? If so, wich are al the folders necessary to copy? Afther that, my system will continue to boot normally, with both hdd's connected and having identical boot folders on both?
Can I do something to preserve my windows seven installation (I have important programs installed here) and dual boot option, or I need to reinstall both OS's?
Or, the third option, install a new xp in a new third hdd and manually delete the old xp system folders from the first hdd?
Thanks in advance for any advice...