Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP

Karlston said:

SIW2 said:

In the case you just specified the HD to which the 7 mbr is written depends which HD is first in the Bios boot order.

Ah I see... that's good to know.

So I can leave my XP drive completely untouched by putting the new drive above the XP drive in the boot sequence before installing Win7. I suspected as much, just needed a guru to confirm it. :)

Excellent, many thanks!

Yes, that will be fine. You may wish to add an XP entry to the 7 boot menu.

Post a screenie when you have installed 7 and someone will explain how.

In your case - it is not the same as the tutorial.

SIW2 said:

Yes, that will be fine. You may wish to add an XP entry to the 7 boot menu.

Post a screenie when you have installed 7 and someone will explain how.

In your case - it is not the same as the tutorial.

Thanks, I was planning to run EasyBCD from Windows 7 to add the XP entry. Is that right?

If it's still needed, what do I take the screenie of?

Hi sorry, I meant a screenie of Disk Management window - while booted into 7.

Karlston said:

SIW2 said:

Yes, that will be fine. You may wish to add an XP entry to the 7 boot menu.

Post a screenie when you have installed 7 and someone will explain how.

In your case - it is not the same as the tutorial.

Thanks, I was planning to run EasyBCD from Windows 7 to add the XP entry. Is that right?

If it's still needed, what do I take the screenie of?

Just wanted to let everyone know that I got XP working with EasyBCD. I had to download the latest Beta Build instead of the version I had. Then I deleted the XP entry that it had when I opened it the first time and I added XP again and hit the Auto Config button and it works great. I can now boot to either Win 7 or XP at startup without going into the BIOS.

Hi there, I followed all of the instructions on the site and managed to successfully get my computer to dual boot (with Windows 7 initally on my computer and XP as my 2nd OS).

However , when I am on windows 7, my C: drive is my normal C: drive as it should be but when I switch on to XP, my C: drive is my recovery partition of my hard drive and what should be my C: drive is actually displayed as my D: drive. Is there anyway around this? Thanks in advance.

Not easily.

I wouldn't try changing the letters of an installed o/s.