Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP

thetranslator said:

Hello i am new here , and new to this forum

I have a windows 7 laptop, 3gb ram and 320gb hard drive

i want to dual boot it to xp and windows 7

i came here for help

my laptop has usb and dvd/cd drives

but here its says


Warning

• If you have a RAID setup, you will need to have the XP RAID drivers on a Floppy disc available to select and load at the F6 prompt while installing XP.
• If you have a SATA drive, then see How to Load SATA Drivers in Windows XP Setup on your Dual Boot PC with Vista or Windows 7 for how to load your SATA drivers from a Floppy disc at the F6 prompt while installing XP.

i dont have a floppy drive can i still dual boot and have windows xp please help me thanks :)

and replay back thanks so what shall i do now? please help me asap thanks

Try this tutorial: SATA Drivers - Slipstream into Windows XP CD

err how do i do this ?

theog said:

First test your Win XP CD, if setup can find your HD, if no HD found you will need to load your drivers.

i loaded the xp disk and click on f6 to test i think but then nothings there whats shall i do noow?

thanks , also when i left my xp disk in after i booted it from the cd/dvd drive , i got the blue sreen eroro and i restarted it and took it out

Hi all,

I have laptop with windows 7 installed in drive C (100GB) and I want to install XP in my drive D (60 GB).
I follow your guide :

- Install the XP to drive D (success)
- Install easy BCD (success...ops I forgot to install the .net framework)
- Install windows installer 3.1 (needed for installing .net framework,success)
- Install .net framework (success)
- Run the easy BCD... failed, reinstall the BCD still can't run it.
- Restart the Laptop (I thought that maybe I need to restart the system so the BCD can run)
- Can't boot the XP (some file missing)
- Repair the XP using the XP CD...still can't boot the XP
- Try to repair the XP again, but I made mistake and deleted the partition
- Can't do anything since the laptop still try to boot to XP while the XP partition already deleted

Question:
1. What must I do so I can boot to 7 again?
2. I'm planing to boot 7, restore the deleted partition and then re-install XP, will this work?If that won't work what must I do to restore the partition and dual booting?
3. Why the easy BCD can't run in XP while it run smoothly in 7 (in my PC)?Is it because I install the BCD first before I install the .net framework?
4. I hear that you can install the XP then boot into 7 with the 7 recovery disk and using the BCD there(which is easier) ,is it true?Can anyone tell me where to find the guide for this step?

Thanks for the help

Update status :
I used the windows 7 recovery disk. Now the laptop can boot Windows7 but encounter error. On the loading screen there are no animation (4 light ball spinning and forming the windows logo), then a blue screen appear with bunch of char (I can't read it because the blue screen only appear for a moment), then restart...

Hello, new to the forum and to dual booting.

Excellent tutorial. Excellent site.

I have followed the tutorial and everythign seemed to have worked, however I don't get any boot option on startup.

Here's my sceanrio:

- Sony Vaio laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium preinstalled on C:
- Used Win7 to create a partition (D:)
- Slipstremaed SATA drivers in XP ISO
- Followed tutorial (Method 2) and installed XP Pro SP2 on a partioned drive D: from CD
- XP started fine
- Tried using EasyBCD to add XP to the bootloader - appeared to work (i.e. no errors)
- On reboot of the system, XP loads up automatically, no bootmanager or option for Windows 7.

Please let me know what you need (screen caps, etc) to help me out. I've tried to read through the posts, but nothing seems to apply.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Found a Windows 7 64bit Repair .ISO d/l online, ran the boot repair and it fixed the problem. Thanks for providing so much intelligence to the masses.