Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP

Dude, this tutorial made my life so much easier!! Thanks so much for your help!! Worked perfectly! Just FYI, I used the "Windows 7 already installed, then install XP" route.

THANKS AGAIN!! :-D

Hello
I have 1st installed Win 7,i installed XP downloaded netfreamwork and easyBCD,runed easyBCD did all that u said and when i restarted my pc i dont get the option to pick from windows 7 or xp,it just start windows 7...what i did wrong??? pls tell me...
cheers

i need to go in disk mng from XP? cause i dont know how to enter in xp... sorry i am new to these things xD
if u could tell me how to enter win XP if i need that would be great...if i need to do it from win 7 i think i know how to do it..

Since you are in Win7 now, install EasyBCD 2.02 to add XP on the Add OS tab. Accept offered boot files, it will autocomplete, save, restart.

If you dont' get a working Dual Boot Menu, please post back a screenshot of your full Disk Mgmt drive map in Win7, using Snipping Tool in Start Menu. Type Disk Management in Start Seach box.

i deleted win 7 and installed win xp,in few days i will try with windows XP first...cause when i had windows 7 didnt know...thanks for ur help

Hi guys,

Thanks a lot for this tutorial...

It's great but... well, I got a problem.

I've installed Windows 7 first in C:. Then I 've created another virtual partition in my hard drive where I wanted to install Windows XP. I named it "B:"

I followed the steps in the tuto to step 5.

Unfortunately when rebooting for the first time during the installation, I got the message "Error loading operating system".

I did what you said in the Tip between step 6 and 7 (EasyBCD installed etc.)

It seemed to work : I got the dual boot screen where I have to choose which OS to run. It works with W7 but when I choose Windows XP it said something like "no such file in B:\NST\ntldr"

I browsed in B:\ (the partition where I installed XP) and there was no directory like "NST" so it seems there an error in the path but I have no idea to repair it....


Thanks for your help...

dan1983 said:

Hi guys,

Thanks a lot for this tutorial...

It's great but... well, I got a problem.

I've installed Windows 7 first in C:. Then I 've created another virtual partition in my hard drive where I wanted to install Windows XP. I named it "B:"

I followed the steps in the tuto to step 5.

Unfortunately when rebooting for the first time during the installation, I got the message "Error loading operating system".

I did what you said in the Tip between step 6 and 7 (EasyBCD installed etc.)

It seemed to work : I got the dual boot screen where I have to choose which OS to run. It works with W7 but when I choose Windows XP it said something like "no such file in B:\NST\ntldr"

I browsed in B:\ (the partition where I installed XP) and there was no directory like "NST" so it seems there an error in the path but I have no idea to repair it....


Thanks for your help...

Drive letters "A" & "B" are Reserved for floppy drives.
Drive letter assignment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

What do you mean by a virtual partition ?

Please post a scrrenshot of your disk management window.