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Windows 7 boot problem
Hi,
I am having a problem with my windows 7. I have two hard drives and my main hard drive (500GB) i have windows XP on which i have had for a while. I thought i would purchase windows 7 to put on my other hard drive to check it out as i thought windows XP was getting a little old. So i installed windows 7 to my second hard drive (80GB) and everything went fine but the problem is when it comes to the screen where it wants me to select which operating system to load it only appears for 1 second then windows 7 boots on its own. It doesn't give me time to select my windows XP OS. So i thought that maybe i have the boot priority wrong but i dont.
So i decide to unplug the hard drive with windows 7 in so it would just boot to windows xp on its own BUT then i get the WINDOWS BOOT MANAGER telling me windows failed to start because of a recent hardware or software change. so then i click Enter to continue and it STILL gives me the option to boot to windows 7 or xp. Tried clicking windows 7 again but get the same error. How does it even KNOW i have windows 7 installed because i unplugged the hard drive.
i just want to be able to turn on my pc..then it give me two OS's to choose from without it booting to windows 7 on its own.
sorry if this was confusing and sorry bout my grammer.
J