My friend cant get the longhorn bootloader to install

blackRaven546

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i know vista uses longhorn is it the same in 7? anyway he cant get the boot loader to install.

hes installing on a seperate partition (other partition has XP), and if im correct he can boot into XP but not 7, any idea?
 

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Use bios to select a different hard drive, to get into 7. Then add XP to the bootloader using EasyBCD. That's assuming 7 is installed already. Maybe I misunderstood.
 

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