How to dual boot dell inspiron 1440?

madtownidiot said:

the problem lies in that xp doesn't recognize SATA drives unless you install the drivers during the install with a floppy drive (which are no longer available) and windows 7 BSOD's whenever the slightest change is made in hardware or bios settings between startups

You can still download SATA drivers & buy floppy drives.

Dinesh said:

Ok download and install EasyBCD.

1: Click on Manage BootLoader. Select Reinstall the Vista bootloader and click on WriteMBR.
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2: Now click on Add/remove Entries. . Under Add an entry, From the Type, select Windows Vista.
Under Name, type Windows 7 and click on Add entry.
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3: Now click on Change Settings tab.
Select the Default OS, check the Drive and click on Save Settings.
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That's it.

I installed & run the EasyBCD but it says "Application Error: The application failed to initialize properly"

Ok i tried to run&install the EasyBCD on XP and it work well(thanks 2 all esp. 2 dinesh). But another problem arise on booting windows7. On the loading part a blue screen appears and contains the message ***STOP 0x0000007B (0xF78D2524,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000) blaah..blaah. but the XP is still working the only problem left now is on how to boot the Windows7 without start-up problems.

RJA said:

Ok i tried to run&install the EasyBCD on XP and it work well(thanks 2 all esp. 2 dinesh). But another problem arise on booting windows7. On the loading part a blue screen appears and contains the message ***STOP 0x0000007B (0xF78D2524,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000) blaah..blaah. but the XP is still working the only problem left now is on how to boot the Windows7 without start-up problems.

I feel like I'm the worst case scenario here..

Dinesh said:

Change the SATA operations from SATA to ACHI. Or if there is any setting called as Combination Mode, select it.

I tried switching but nothings change, unfortunately there is no Combination Mode.

theog said:

Startup Repair

then use easybcd 2.0

EasyBCD 2.0 Beta Builds - The NeoSmart Forums

Right try repairing Win 7, by doing Startup repair, may need to do this 3 or 4 times.

theog said:

theog said:

Startup Repair

then use easybcd 2.0

EasyBCD 2.0 Beta Builds - The NeoSmart Forums

Right try repairing Win 7, by doing Startup repair, may need to do this 3 or 4 times.

do i have to repeat repairing ? even if it says "Startup Repair could not detect a problem"

Can you boot in Win 7 now?