Got XP as well as Win7, but only boots from Winxp(partition)

Antx777 · 25 Oct 2009 at 18:02

Hello,

I installed Windows XP on a new partition (created by "partition Wizard"), and allocated 50 gigs. So i rebooted Windows 7, put my XP32 disk in, and set it up on drive E (W7 was on C), NTSF etc. Installed fine, and have Windows XP on now, but twhen i reboot,it only restarts to windows XP, and doesn't seem to see it at all.

Usually, I would se "selective Operating systems" to choose from, but there is nothing here, just Winxp, although the Dive C has all the Win7 files there, so it's "on" but cant boot to it - or Both. i need WinXP for my music software

TIA for any answers on this

~Ant

Burnsy2023 · 25 Oct 2009 at 18:31

XP wiped the boot loader and put it's own back on. Have a look at BCD Edit.

Antx777 · 25 Oct 2009 at 20:34

thanks for reply,
would having both drives set as "primary" have something to do with this (don't know too much about BCD edit, but loaded "vistaBootpro" up to see if i could see anything...

thanks

Burnsy2023 · 25 Oct 2009 at 20:46

Antx777 said:
thanks for reply,
would having both drives set as "primary" have something to do with this (don't know too much about BCD edit, but loaded "vistaBootpro" up to see if i could see anything...

thanks

Nope, it's got nothing to do with jumper settings. You need to recreate a Win 7 boot sector and then add XP to that list.

Antx777 · 25 Oct 2009 at 22:37

Cheers, will work on that, also found this useful http://www.thpc.info/dual/win7/tripleboot_win7+xp+ms-dos710_on_win7.html (without DOS mind....;(

EDIT:, and sucessfully did it, with XP/Win7 now installed as dua-boot.

Thanks

~Ant