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I'm having a problem with dual booting XP and Windows 7
I have a problem and would greatly appreciate any help.
I'm using a new hard drive, and doing a completely fresh install. I started with Windows 7 - all went fine. After sorting out drivers, rebooting a few times etc, I created the partition for XP, rebooted and installed. Told XP setup to install to the new partition. It got to the point where it finished copying all the files and rebooted. Then I got the "error loading operating system" error.
It will load neither XP nor 7. I tried booting from the 7 disc and doing a startup repair so I can fix things within 7 using EasyBCD, but it didn't work - the repair software says it can't find a problem, and upon rebooting I still can't get into XP or 7.
Any suggestions?
edit: I tried the advice in this post, but it didn't help: http://forums.techarena.in/operating...tm#post4306972
edit2: For some reason, Windows 7 startup repair utility detects its installation as being on F: - my DVD drive, when it is in fact installed to C:. XP is installed onto a partion allocated to G:, and its own repair console recognises that correctly, as well as also detecting 7 as being on F:.
edit3: The driver letters keep changing. I've just gone into the XP partition setup in the recovery console and in the install menu both a couple of times in a row, and they keep changing! Also the boot order just got changed in the BIOS, and my OS drive somehow moved to the lowest priority hard drive below my two storage drives.
Last edited by MFP; 14 Mar 2010 at 18:17.