Win XP and Win 7 Installation Problem

mshah · 16 Nov 2009

Hi,
I had Windows XP SP3 (C drive) on my pc, installed Win7, on other partition (drive F) on the same ide drive, now all I can boot into is win7, without any option to boot in win xp. All the files and data is there.

Now if I try to access my files from My Documents (C drive) folder, I get error that I can not access any of it, due to security problems. All I want at this point is to copy my files to Win 7 Partiton.

Please help.

Thank You,

mshah

gregrocker · 16 Nov 2009

Install EasyBCD and on Add/Remove tab, add your XP drive by name, drive letter and type (XP). See if it boots up.

You can also try taking ownership of the XP folder or file: How to take ownership of a file or a folder in Windows XP

mshah · 16 Nov 2009

Thank You for your help, I will try easy bcd. I am not getting any option to log in to xp at all.

Thank You,

gregrocker · 16 Nov 2009

Is it your desire to dual boot Xp for awhile, or just to copy the files over?

If problems remain with dual boot, please post a screen shot of the EasyBCD listings and your Disk management map using the Snipping tool on Start>Programs menu, attach files using paper clip in reply box

mshah · 19 Nov 2009

I just want to transfer my files from My Documents of the old xp installation, and from a few programs. Once I am done, I will delete the old installation of win xp. Now when I boot, computer takes me to Win7, and I try to copy files from other partition on the same drive,(win xp ) it gives me an error, "you do not have permission to access this.....".

If you can help me solve this permission issue, I will be able to copy the needed files. I am able to log in both, win7 and winxp as adminstrator.

Thank You,

mshah