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Dual Boot Win 7 & Win XP
Okay guys I'm totally baffled my this one. My computer was tri booting Linux, Win 7, and Win XP. When it booted, it first booted GRUB and gave the option of Linux or Windows (or some utilities). If I picked Windows, it then gave me the choice of Win 7 or Win XP.
Anyway my Win 7 install was getting bloated, and I didn't need my Linux install anymore so I decided to just clean install Win 7 on my old Win 7 partition and totally wipe my Linux install. I didn't touch my XP partition during this process.
After a clean install and getting Win 7 up to date, I tried using EasyBCD (per the instructions on this site) to set-up a dual boot since my Win 7 didn't set it up by default. Anyway I add the XP entry & and write the MBR, then reboot, but it just boots straight into Win 7 without giving me the option to choose XP. When I fire up EasyBCD it only shows the Win 7 entry, no sign of a Win XP entry. So I tried adding it again, this time I even checked the BCD via an elevated Command prompt using bcdedit, and it showed the new entry. Reboot, again no option, and again the entry is gone. Not sure what is going on but something appears to messing with my boot data.
Also it seems that in solving these sorts of problems a screen cap of the dsk manager is typically requested.
Thanks for the help!