Thread: Dual Boot

I have an AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual, Pricessor 4600+ 2.41 GHz, 2.00 GB of Ram

I had zp running and added a new hdd and installed windows 78 on it, I followed the instructions and then restarted and MS said it should fin my XP well it does not as far as to boot. In Windows 7 I can see the drives and that has slowed down 7 to a crawl.

I am not sue how to add XP into the boot so that it knows that it is there?

Hi Drew ,

It would be nice if you posted your solution.

Then we can learn what method you are using.

Also we won't post the same solution you have already suggested if we know what it is.

Thanks

well it was not just a solution. I was given wrong information it seems on my OS install.

Hi Mari,

You can add an entry for the XP partition/drive to 7 bcd - you will then get both showing in the boot menu - just select which you want to boot into.

It is not difficult.

Please post a screenshot of the Disk Management Window, like this:

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When I wanted to install Windows 7 in a dual bood configuration with Windows XP I read as much as I could about how to do it. I already had a blank partition left for this purpose when I had installed XP. I had no problem installing Windows 7 but did have problems getting the boot menu to come up. I tried BCDedit and everything else that I could find info about. It came down to the point that when I wanted to boot to Windows 7 I would put the installation disc in the drive thinking I might use the repair mode but "lo and behold" if I had the Windows 7 DVD in the drive but did not boot to it I would get the boot menu so I could select Win 7. But I finally figured out that if I got that boot menu and decided that I wanted to go back to XP I couldn't. It would instead reboot the computer and as long as I had the Win 7 DVD in the drive I could not actually get to XP, but if I take the Win 7 DVD out it comes up with no boot menu and goes directly into Windows XP. I know that this is not how it is suppossed to work but it does for me.

Now my "big question" is how do I delete the Win Xp completely and recover the space in that partition to add to the Windows 7 partition?

I have "triple-boot".
I have two HDs: 320Gb, partitioned to 20Gb > C:, 300Gb >D. This drive has my Windows XP Pro on it.
I added another HD: 500Gb. which I partitioned 22Gb > C:, 460Gb > D:, 24Gb > E:
After installing Vista on my "C:" partition on 500Gb., I ended up with dual-boot. Then I installed Win7 on E: (24Gb)
When I re-booted, I ended up with Triple-Boot.

Windows is always on C: irrespective of the partition or drive. The rest of the Drive letters alter with each different boot.

I used BCDedit to edit my triple boot so that Win7 is 1st, Vista is 2nd & XP 3rd.

Windows doesn't have to be on C when you are booted into it - depends how you set it up.

I got Win 7 installed in a dual boot system with Win XP Pro. Then decided to get rid of the Win XP so I used Disk Management and formated the partititon that XP resided on. Then I used gParted to regain the space that had been the XP Partition so everything is working now but I still have to have the Win 7 installation DVD in the drive when I boot up - if not the computer just keeps rebooting. I have discovered that some of the boot files are actually on another drive - the master drive on the primary IDE channel while the Boot drive is the first SATA drive. I thought if I disconnected the first drive and booted to the installation DVD and choose the repair function I could fix that problem. When I did it told me it was fixing the boot up problems and restart, When it restarted it still had to have the DVD in the drive to work. Also now I can try to boot to the installation DVD and it will get to the "pretty screen" but does not display any options at all.
I have tried to run BCDedit and it says "access denied" I would really like to know all files that have to be there for it to boot and how they work. I believe it is way more complicated than the ntldr of old.