re: Windows xp and windows 7 dual boot
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 2:56 am
Windows 7 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Larry Hayes
(7 messages posted)
Sorry, billy you missed the point. The issue isn't how to select which OS to boot.
When Win7's install doesn't FIND the other OS, it obviously can't give you that option
is msconfig, and of course you can not simply add the info there. The only tool,
within windows, is with BCDEdit which allows you to modify the boot record. The root
cause appears to be that Win7's Install and it's BCDEdit utility will not look for
another OS anywhere except a 2nd partition on physical drive 0. When XP is already
installed on drive 1, Win7 and it's BCDEdit doesn't find it there's nothing to configure.
That's my theory. The 3rd party boot manager suggested by several other users is
the best (I think only) option here.
On Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 9:12 am, billy aldred wrote:
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>hello to fix this problem you should go on ( running windows 7 os) controll panel
>> system and security > administrative tools then run system configuration, click
>the boot tab at the top and it sould say windows 7 and then winsows xp click on
windows
>7 and click set as default >>> problem solved .... if you need any more help email
>me on : billy-aldred-2009
>@hotmail.com
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