Dual boot issues XP & Win7

[2002z06]

Still trying to make this work, is it possible XP is on 1 drive no raid and Win 7 is on raid 0 array using 2 drives, of course, need to get this to work.

 

[Zidane24]

Have you read through this tutorial?

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/8057-dual-boot-installation-windows-7-xp.html

 

[2002z06]

I have done it several times

 

[gregrocker]

There isn't enough in your original post to give advice on, and most of the smarter pros will pass over threads with no System Specs filled out. I faintly remember you from your avatar pic.

The complication is surely the RAID, however since you asked in another thread about EasyBCD I would install it in Win7 and see if it can autoconfigure the boot.

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[2002z06]

System specs are in my user CP now.

 

[gregrocker]

Which OS are you able to boot into?

What is the problem exactly?

 

[2002z06]

I can boot into both if I change boot drives by hitting the F12 key and choose which drive to boot first, I would rather use the boot manager to simplify things, thats all.

 

[gregrocker]

In that case, add whichever drive is missing in EasyBCD on the Add/Remove tab.

If that fails, do a http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html?ltr=R from the Win7 desktop to correctly reconfigure the Boot Menu.

But if they're already on separate HD's then you have the best situation since the drives are now independent and can come and go as you please, whereas building a Boot Menu will make them interdependent and harder to extricate.

 

[Zidane24]

In that case, add whichever drive is missing in EasyBCD on the Add/Remove tab.

If that fails, do a http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html?ltr=R from the Win7 desktop to correctly reconfigure the Boot Menu.

But if they're already on separate HD's then you have the best situation since the drives are now independent and can come and go as you please, whereas building a Boot Menu will make them interdependent and harder to extricate.

Gotta agree with Greg...even if it is an extra step at bootup, it might be worth the effort to keep them seperate, in case you want to move one of the OSs to another computer one day.

 

[2002z06]

I was thinking about that and believe it is the best route, on startup I hit F12 choose Hard drive, next screen choose the Seagate for Win7 or WD for XP.

 

[2002z06]

That Gigabyte board having that feature makes life easier.

 

[gregrocker]

If you set WIn7 in BIOS setup boot order to be the first HD to boot (after DVD), then after saving and restart it should always boot into WIn7 first.....

Unless you tap F12 and get the BIOS Boot Menu to select XP.

Will it do this for you? Easier.

 

[2002z06]

That is how I have it set.

 

[gregrocker]

Good to go.

 

[2002z06]

Thanks you guys I appreciate the help.