Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP

Luciak said:

Here's a riddle (at least for me):

I've installed Windows 7 to be the second system with Windows XP using baarod's method with a little modification using tips from this tutorial.

What I've done is described in this baarod's tutorial.

And the riddle:

Everything is working properly but here is what I see when I am on XP:


And here is what I see when I am on W7:


Why is it like this?

Hello Luciak,

This is normal. Whatever OS you have started up in will see itself as the C: drive by default, and the other OS with another drive letter. :)

Shawn

Luciak,

Double check in Windows 7 Disk Management to see if you may just need to add a drive letter to the XP partition to be able to see it Windows 7 afterwards. This tutorial will helps how you how to Just subsititute Vista for XP.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

No problem Luciak, see my signature about questions. :)

I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted out.

Hello Roy, and welcome to Seven Forums.

You will be able to access the files on the C: drive with XP. Unfortunately you will need to reinstall any program that you wish to use on the D: drive with Windows 7 for it to be able to run.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

No Problem Roy. Sorry, but no. Programs will need to be reinstalled per OS in order for them to run in that OS.

However, an exicting new installable feature called Windows XP Mode will allow you to install XP only programs inside the virtual machine and run them from inside Windows 7 as if they are still running in XP. Sadly, you would still have to reinstall the programs though.