Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP


  1. Posts : 72,043
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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       #920

    Hello Wrathchild, and welcome to Seven Forums. :)

    Which OS was installed first?

    Do you have a XP entry at boot? If not, did you do step 8 on in Method Two to add XP with EasyBCD?

    If you do have a XP entry, and it just will not give you time to select it, then see if increasing the time in the tutorial below may be able to help while in Windows 7.

    Operating System to Start - Change Display List Time
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  2. Posts : 12
    Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit
       #921

    First is Windows 7!
    I have two hard disk and in the second i've installed windows xp.
    I have done the point 8 and i still doing the point 8 each time i reboot the computer^^
    But in the OS selection doesn't appear windows xp :-P
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  3. Posts : 72,043
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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       #922

    Could you post screenshots of what you have in the screenshot in step 14 for the Edit Boot Menu and View Settings button in EasyBCD?
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  4. Posts : 12
    Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit
       #923

    Here the ScreenShot!

    But when i restart my computer the thing in EasyBcd aren't the same....

    Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP-easy-bcd-screenshot-1.jpg

    Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP-easy-bcd-screenshot-2.jpg

    I've installed Xp in the E: disk (the other hard disk have this letter )
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  5. Posts : 72,043
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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       #924

    Wrathchild,

    In your top screenshot, select and delete the "Microsoft Windows XP" entry, then start over at step 8 in Method Two to see if may just be some mistake that was made somewhere. Be sure to have the Automatically detect correct drive box checked when doing steps 9-13 though.
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  6. Posts : 12
    Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit
       #925

    Good Morning!^^ (Here in Italy is 12:32 AM)

    I've done all the point from 9 to 18 of the part Two again and again...

    Still when I reboot my computer there isn't the entry of windows xp and when i open Easy Bcd:

    Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP-easy-bcd-screenshot-3.jpg

    Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP-easy-bcd-screenshot-4.jpg


    As if i've never done anything... :-(

    Thank again for your patience..
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  7. Posts : 14
    Win 7 Ult x64 Win XP Pro
       #926

    The slipstream did the trick
    Then hooked the ssd back up and changed the boot order for the ssd to be #1 and it will boot into either one now.....

    The days and days of reinstalling games. Sigh

    At least I installed all my Steam games while trying to get this damn thing to work. So that's about 10 games out of say 150 or so.
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  8. Posts : 72,043
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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       #927

    That's great news Scgt1. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted. :)
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  9.    #928

    Wrathchild: Please post back a screenshot of your full Disk Management drive map, using Snipping Tool in Start Menu - attach file to your post using Paper Clip in reply box. Tell us what is located where.

    scgt1: With Win7 backup imaging, reinstalls are a thing of the past! Be sure to save your image externally just after everything is set up and running great, but before corruption begins creeping in. Backup Complete Computer - Create an Image Backup
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  10. Posts : 12
    Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit
       #929

    Ther's the disk managment screenshot... and there's another problem....
    The Secondary Disk Seems disappeared.. O_O
    I've asked for this other problem in the apposite section 'cause seems that the secondary Hard Disk is detected occasionally... :-P When i reboot my computer some time there is and other time no.. Other time can disappear also when i open EasyBcd or when i open the disk from My Computer folder...
    Maybe this is the problem...

    Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP-disk-managment-screenshot-1.jpg

    The problem is getting very interesting indeed....


    P.S. for disk managment i have also Acronis Disk Director Home

    Thanks a lot for Help!

    Wrathchild
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