Dual boot not working

Ok here is the situation: Laptop, Windows 7 Professional 64bit is running perfectly on it. At one point in time I had a dual boot with Windows XP Professional. Somehow the boot manager stopped working randomly. Currently when booted into windows 7 (C:\) my old XP install on the same hard disk...

I recently reformatted and reinstalled Windows 7. I have another drive with Windows XP on it. Before reinstalling 7 it offered to boot either Windows 7 or "Older Version of Windows". Now it recognizes the drive, it even recognizes it as being named XP but it will not offer to boot to XP. I tried...

Hi all , firstly i'd like to say this forum is the BEST it has helped me out on more than a few occasions! Secondly a little background , i am a junior IT tech so can build pcs etc but a lot of the command prompt stuff goes over my head! Here's what i wanted to do - have windows 7 ultimate...

Hi. I've been running a dual boot with Vista x64 and W7 x64. I've been doing this for a while and am presented with a choice between W7 and Vista at boot. Today I tried to boot into Vista and I can't move the choice with the keyboard arrows. I cannot choose Vista (2nd choice) and the up down...

I have spent a couple hours reading how-to's and trying to get my dual boot up and running, but I still can't get it :( What I have: XP on a 250gig drive and W7 on a 60gig SSD. When I start my comp it goes straight to W7. I can force it to go to XP if i switch my bios to boot off the XP drive. I...