Hi,
I recently installed Win Seven onto another harddrive because
I wanted to keep my xp installation and be able to choose on boot
which os I want to use.
Since my installation of seven it boot straight into seven without
giving me the choise of OS.
I tried using EasyBCD but I cant select the drive letter which contains
my xp installation, why is that ?
Could somebody tell me how to use this program before I do something
stupid here ?
Thanks alot.
Hello,
Go into Disk Management and make sure your XP partition is assigned a drive letter.
BTW, the version of EasyBCD you are using is quite old. I have 2.0 beta 63.
My xp installation is assigned to D and is visible in the windows explorer.
My version of EasyBCD is the latest official one, you're using beta version
which I cant take because i'm not registered on their forum.
So ?
thx, managed to grab one...seems to see my xp os now....gonna reboot to
see if I can choose between os...
BTW, It can't hurt to try. Because the worst that will happen is you have one entry in the boot menu that doesn't work. You can still select Windows 7 from the menu and try again. There are tools included in Windows 7 that can create boot entries. It's called bcdedit
Tried it, works but somehow on first boot into old xp install it reinstalls all drivers
allthough i didn't add any hardware. My keyborad and mouse wont work because
it hangs on an unknown hardware installation and i cant continue since i got no
keyboard and mouse recognized. I tried plugin an old usb mouse but xp doesn't see
it and i cant connect my old ps2 keyboard since my mobo doesn't have any ps2 entry
Stuck !
it sounds to me like installing Windows 7 hosed your XP system. I had problems before but never this bad.
in XP, try running chkdsk c: /f /v and reboot
where c: is the drive letter of your XP partition
or you could try running checkdisk from Win7 but people have reported bugs in Win7 checkdisk utility... Booting from the XP install disc and using the command prompt might be a safer idea.
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