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    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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       #20

    You're most welcome Trapper. Thank you.

    Usually whatever loaded OS will show itself as C: even though it may truly not be C: .
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  2. Posts : 5
    Windows 7 Professional 32bit (preinstalled on notebook, no disk
       #21

    XP on 7 dual boot


    G'day
    Many thanks to all who have helped with answers to dual-booting XP and 7 on the one notebook and all the tutorials. I've learnt a lot.
    Happy New Year.
    Cheers,
    Suziman.:)
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  3. Posts : 5
    Windows 7 Professional 32bit (preinstalled on notebook, no disk
       #22

    G'day Seven Forums,
    Should you like to send me an email address registered with PayPal, I would
    like to make a donation in appreciation for your help.

    During recent attempts to instal Win XP onto a new notebook computer
    pre-installed with Win 7, I received considerable assistance from many
    people across a number of very helpful sites including "Tom's Hardware",
    "Seven Forum", PC User Magazine, MailStore Home, "Driver Packs", Tradewind
    ("DualBootPro") and there may be others of whom I have lost track.
    Many, many thanks to all these sites and people all of whom played an
    important part.
    In the end, the original Win 7 setup was backed to an external hard drive,
    the Toshiba Recovery "Console" was used to make a set of recovery DVDs, the
    original hard drive was replaced with a new one of similar size and
    specification, the appropriate drivers obtained and installed, XP Home SP2
    installed, all the necessary programmes, folders and files installed, many
    mistakes rectified and cleaned-up, a bootable recovery disc made and it is
    almost where it is finished. The physical hard drive has been partitioned into
    a number of various sized partitions including one which will be kept aside
    for Win 7 when required and the original drive may be able to be used as
    support for this. This was all done in quite an amateurish manner so
    unfortunately I am not sure that I can be of much use to others with similar
    problems although I would try.
    Thanks again.
    Cheers,
    suziman
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  4. Posts : 71,977
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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       #23

    Hello Suziman,

    I'm happy to hear that everything is still good. :)

    There's no need for donations since our adverts for non logged in viewers cover our site expenses for now, but thank you very much for the offer. Just you visiting and getting and/or giving help is all the appreciation we need. :)

    Thank you again,
    Shawn
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  5. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 64 bit
       #24

    Thank you for the post.. it helped me a lot. I have one more question.
    Is there any registry key value or wmi query to get the list of Operating systems
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  6. Posts : 71,977
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
    Thread Starter
       #25

    c0m3t said:
    Thank you for the post.. it helped me a lot. I have one more question.
    Is there any registry key value or wmi query to get the list of Operating systems
    Hello c0m3t, and welcome to Seven Forums. :)

    Using the bcdedit command will give you list of OSs.
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  7. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 64 bit
       #26

    Brink said:

    Hello c0m3t, and welcome to Seven Forums. :)

    Using the bcdedit command will give you list of OSs.
    Hello Brink, Thank you..

    But is it possible to get this information either through registry key or through wmi query? As these are the only 2 options I have and I can not use commands to get the output?
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  8. Posts : 71,977
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
    Thread Starter
       #27

    Out of curiosity, why are these the only options you have?
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  9. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 64 bit
       #28

    Brink said:
    Out of curiosity, why are these the only options you have?
    Because I am using internal tool where I can use only registry key or wmi query.
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