Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP

Hi,

I am adding multioot XP64 to a laptop that already has W7 installed.

For the step that requires booting from the W7 install disc at command prompt, I do not have a W7 install disc--the laptop came with it preinstalled (OEM) and the previous owner has deleted the recovery partition. I don't want to spend $20 on the Acer recovery discs.

Can I create a W7 repair disc and use it to boot at the command prompt and do the repair? If not, can I do it from the XP install disc? If not is there any other way to do the repair?

Also, is there any way I can create the W7 recovery discs myself from the W7 already installed?

Thanks.
FP

Thanks.

So there is no way to create recovery discs from the W7 installed -- they must be bought from Acer, right?

Thanks.

The laptop with W7 is at home and I am at the office, so I will have to do it when I get home and get back to you.

Best,
FP

Oh, ok.

Just need to run that .cmd to find where acer have hidden one particular file - then it is easy to to do.

I've run it on my xp system and it gave me:

Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 746F-E11E

Is that all?

Not surprised - it is looking for something needed to create win7 repair disc .

It won't exist on XP. run it from your windows 7 drive.

Is it 32 or 64 bit windows 7 that you have?

This is a different system running only XP64 that was streamlined with nLite, not the system I intend to install XP64 on a W7 system.

I just ran the KD.CMD out of curiosity to see what happens and it came out empty.

There is no recovery folder in system32. There is only a restore folder.

No there won't be on XP.

KD.cmd needs to be run on win7.

They are quite different operating systems.