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Windows XP But No Access To Win 7! :-(
To cut the long story short, I have several drives (mainly for the HTPC), but my main hard drive for my OS(s) is partitioned into 2. On the first partition I had Windows 7 64bit and on the second partition I had Windows 7 32bit. Now as Windows 7 64bit was totally clogged up with crap and having some issues, I decided to wipe it and re-install it again. I did this and all was fine for about an hour (dual boot menu still intact too), then suddenly it froze up and I lost some work that I had on the screen at the time. I was so annoyed by this that I decided to put Windows XP on that partition still leaving Windows 7 32bit on the second partition. Hope you're following this? lol.
So anyway. I went into the BIOS and changed the config from AHCI to IDE for my SATA hard drives so that XP would pick them up and install. No problem, all went well. Apart from, when everything was done, I had lost the boot menu. So now I can only boot into Windows XP and no longer have an option to boot into Windows 7 32bit on the second partition!!
Can anyone help?
Thanks.