re: Windows xp and windows 7 dual boot
Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 11:02 am
Windows 7 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by thomas
(13 messages posted)
Thanks all of you guys for your replies.. Finally I got it to work, rather than installing
on the same drive i just installed it on a second physical drive and now the problem
is solved, i get both boot options at the beginning and windows 7 is set as default
automatically..
Again, thanks for all your replies.
On Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 2:56 am, Larry Hayes wrote:
>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.
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