no dual boot option in win 7 enterprise ed?

[backtothefuture]

Am running win xp pro (32bit) as main OS.

Recently installed a trial version of Win 7 (64 bit) Enterprise Edition on a different partition.

Pc now boots straight into Win 7 and doesn't give me option of choosing OS.

I ran msconfig and boot options in Win 7 but it only listed the Win 7 directory under the boot list. How can I boot back into Win XP?

Thanks

 

[SiriusB]

Try running EasyBCD from within 7. It should be able to fix the bootloader to give you an option.

Though I would take this as a sign to ditch XP completely!

 

[backtothefuture]

thanks

ideally would like to use Win 7 (64bit) , however currently testing the stability/comptability of it as have quite an old system (Asus A8N Sli Deluxe, Opty 170, 2GB DDR RAM, Radeon 4850)...

would like to have the 64bit version stable on the above, then add in 2 more sticks of 1 GB RAM (for 4GB in total)... then see if this is stable...

if all works without further BSODs (already got two!) then will switch over to Win 7...

in the meantime I need the Win XP Pro for normal operations!

On the plus side I did get a 4.9 on the Windows Index which I think is quite decent considering the above (bottleneck is CPU and RAM... graphics card got 7.3 and HDD got 5.9)

 

[backtothefuture]

Try running EasyBCD from within 7. It should be able to fix the bootloader to give you an option.

Though I would take this as a sign to ditch XP completely!

tried it, gives me an option when I reboot. Once I go into XP and restart, I get an error message on bootup saying I need to repair windows (doesn't let me select boot options anymore)..

seems Win 7 doesn't like not have exclusive boot rights!

above keeps on happening everytime I repair and use EasyBCD to stick in the Win XP boot option but doesn't happen if I just have Win 7 as a boot option!