Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP

Bakfin said:

Brink said:

Here you go Jim. :)


Click here:
SATA Drivers - Load in Windows XP Setup on Dual Boot

I don't have a floppy disk drive.

I changed the letter of one of my USB drives to A: and copied the 4 files (atapi.sys, ataport.sys, msahci.sys and pciidex.sys) onto it but when I hit F6 it wouldn't recognize the USB drive. It wanted a floppy disk drive.

Thanks,
Jim

You can only use a floppy disk.

Have look at the HP/Compaq link in above link.

General XP Downgrade Guide for HP Laptops - HP Support Forum

theog said:

Bakfin said:

Brink said:

Here you go Jim. :)


Click here:
SATA Drivers - Load in Windows XP Setup on Dual Boot

I don't have a floppy disk drive.

I changed the letter of one of my USB drives to A: and copied the 4 files (atapi.sys, ataport.sys, msahci.sys and pciidex.sys) onto it but when I hit F6 it wouldn't recognize the USB drive. It wanted a floppy disk drive.

Thanks,
Jim

You can only use a floppy disk.

Have look at the HP/Compaq link in above link.

General XP Downgrade Guide for HP Laptops - HP Support Forum

Thanks! I'll have a look.

I just bought an ASUS G60Vx with windows 7 and need to dual boot XP. I did the partition and then instructed my BIOS to boot from the CD. With the CD in I booted my computer and and it gave me the screen "click any button to boot from the cd". I clicked the any button and the screen says its analyzing the hardware, but then gets stuck. There is no activity on the HD light and the DVD/CD drive quits spinning.

I dont know where to go from here. I have heard ASUS computers have a background OS running in addition to windows 7 and this may be a problem when creating dual boots. Any ideas?

jbmcgow said:

I just bought an ASUS G60Vx with windows 7 and need to dual boot XP. I did the partition and then instructed my BIOS to boot from the CD. With the CD in I booted my computer and and it gave me the screen "click any button to boot from the cd". I clicked the any button and the screen says its analyzing the hardware, but then gets stuck. There is no activity on the HD light and the DVD/CD drive quits spinning.

I dont know where to go from here. I have heard ASUS computers have a background OS running in addition to windows 7 and this may be a problem when creating dual boots. Any ideas?

What screen the install stop at?

Its a blank screen that appears immediately after the press any key screen. So its black with a single line stating "Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration..." and then it stalls on me

jbmcgow said:

Its a blank screen that appears immediately after the press any key screen. So its black with a single line stating "Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration..." and then it stalls on me

Also of note, I did not activate the proposed xp partition in fears it may mess things up, do i need to activate it?

jbmcgow said:

Its a blank screen that appears immediately after the press any key screen. So its black with a single line stating "Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration..." and then it stalls on me

Sounds like bad CD.

huh, i've tried with with two different xp disks and get the same thing tho

BomWatchOut said:

Hi, nice forum you got here

I followed this awesome tutorial you made and, to make the long story short, i end up in a loop. I cannot enter one OS without damaging the boot loader of the other. For example, right now i am running windows 7(32bit), if i want to dual boot with windows XP(32bit) i have to open easyBCD and uninstall the boot loader. After i do that i can boot into windows XP (dual boot screen doesn't appear) but then if i want to boot back into windows 7 i have to reinstall the boot loader(dual boot screen appears) and so i end up with the same problem, so on and so on.... I think I'm stuck somewhere in the steps you provided. Do you know where i went wrong? please, I'm waiting for a reply

I tried to read all the post made about this topic so that i wont ask a question that maybe was already here. Found out that Holtsaber had the same problem as me, but i never found the post where he got this problem solved..



Here are some screens from my bcdedit and my windows xp root folder:

Try this:

Use EasyBCD 2.0 in Win 7.

EasyBCD 2.0 Beta Builds - The NeoSmart Forums