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Hello User62756, and welcome to Seven Forums.
Have you already tried using BCEdit to add Windows 7 to the boot list while you are in XP instead using steps 7 to 16 in METHOD TWO of the tutorial?
Hello User62756, and welcome to Seven Forums.
Have you already tried using BCEdit to add Windows 7 to the boot list while you are in XP instead using steps 7 to 16 in METHOD TWO of the tutorial?
HI.
I've tried to create a dualboot yesterday and failed. very badly.
however, i've managed to install windows 7 home premium again.
now i've found this method i wanna try it again.
I'm just beginning and think something is going wrong already.
here's the thing.
when i make a new partition in windows 7 it comes up as a logical, not as a primary like in the pictures in the method.
how do i change this. or is there no need to change!?
help me please
Tomas
Hello Tomas, and welcome to Seven Forums.
It will work fine on a logical partition as well. :)
BrinkHello User62756, and welcome to Seven Forums.
Have you already tried using BCEdit to add Windows 7 to the boot list while you are in XP instead using steps 7 to 16 in METHOD TWO of the tutorial?
Did not
I will give it a try
Besides adding the entry (if not in there), is there anything else I need to do ?
Just tried it - even after I go to the manage boot loader, and ask to "reinstalled the Vista/win7" + Write MBR
No go. If the DVD in not inserted, I boot into WinXP
Last edited by Brink; 18 Jan 2010 at 12:08. Reason: merged posts
Please post a screenshot of 7 Disk Management window.
https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...en-forums.html
You possibly just need to change the boot order of the Hard drives.
Last edited by SIW2; 18 Jan 2010 at 13:38.
Since I suspect the hang up was because of the second drive, I went ahead, open the case, remove the second drive (temporarily) and did [another] clean install of win7. This time - voila - I can now see the boot menu, all options work and I do not need to have the DVD inserted to boot into Win7
Thanks for your help.
I just tried this: I disconnected the existing hard disk in my HP (Windows 7) desktop, installed a new, blank drive and connected it up. Then I booted the machine with my XP Pro disk in the DVD drive and ran through a standard installation of Windows XP.
My thinking was to see if the hardware was compatible with XP without compromising the Windows 7 installation at all.
The installation went perfectly, but when I tried to access the internet there was no connection. Checking in Device Manager revealed yellow question marks on the ethernet port and all the PCI devices. Presumably Windows XP doesn't have the necessary drivers.
So I changed the drive connections back to the original HDD (and everything's working perfectly, phew) and am in search of the necessary drivers. I'll try Hewlett Packard support, but wonder if anyone here has come across the motherboard? Belarc Adviser reports it as "PEGATRON CORPORATION EVANS 1.02" and a Google search turns up virtually no information at all.
Many thanks.
Bert
Last edited by Bert Coules; 20 Jan 2010 at 03:34.
You might have better luck checking the HP site for drivers under the machine model number - instead of chasing down the mobo. It may be specially made for HP anyway.