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Re: Dual Boot Between Windows XP and Windows 7

rajnet2 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:01:52 GMT

will it work if i do the same editing with BCDEDIT having OSes installed in below order:

1. WinXP SP3

2. Windows 7

3. Win 2K8 R2

Re: Dual Boot Between Windows XP and Windows 7

pavan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:15:11 GMT

I made was that an earlier version of Windows already exists and that you will be installing a newer version of Windows (like Windows 7).

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Re: Dual Boot Between Windows XP and Windows 7

Tim Granli — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:14:52 GMT

This was easy to understand and thanks. I have one question: I have my datafiels in another partition. Is it ok to share the datafiels partition between vista and 7, so they both can use it? In vista changing the target , and in 7 just include them in the libary. ?

Re: Dual Boot Between Windows XP and Windows 7

pavan — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:21:50 GMT

Awesome video! I only work tech support, so I need to have different operating systems or several computers. Love Win7!

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Re: Dual Boot Between Windows XP and Windows 7

DiabeticDiet — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:28:20 GMT

Very handy to know. I'm always reluctant to leave the comfort of my current OS. Thanks

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Re: Dual Boot Between Windows XP and Windows 7

Daren — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:31:46 GMT

I would just rather use a program like Portlock Leap Frog ( http://www.portlock.com/products/leap_frog/) because its easy and does all that configuring for me, I did not like having to partiiton my hard drive, or buy another one, I also wanted to use windows XP, so with Portlock Leap Frog I was able to do that very easily.

Re: Dual Boot Between Windows XP and Windows 7

PC4LIFE — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:41:19 GMT

I have done several dual boot applications from a SBS server apps to Microsoft OS, we run a small pool remodel outfit and have done everything through Microsoft platforms.

Re: Dual Boot Between Windows XP and Windows 7

rohit — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:31:50 GMT

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Re: Re: Dual Boot Between Windows XP and Windows 7

Rocko22 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:37:42 GMT

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Re: Dual Boot Between Windows XP and Windows 7

onechoice — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:35:05 GMT

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Re: Dual Boot Between Windows XP and Windows 7

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Re: Dual Boot Between Windows XP and Windows 7

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Re: Dual Boot Between Windows XP and Windows 7

boot IT up — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:24:46 GMT

successfully set up dual boot on a 40gb laptop drive with XP Pro w/ 16 gb on C: and Win7 w/ 24gb on D: partition on a Lenovo ThinkPad T41 w/ 1gb of RAM

running smooth no errors encountered on installation

Had to install additional drivers for XP Pro after OS loaded

Windows 7 installed all drivers. No additional drivers were needed to be installed.

Re: Dual Boot Between Windows XP and Windows 7

BitsBytesMore — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:22:34 GMT

Great Video......very well explained.

I do have some questions though:

If I start with Windows Vista. Create a new partition, label it and install Windows 7. When I decide I do not want Windows Vista anymore, Can I just log into Win7 and from there delete the Vista partition? What will happen to the BCD?

I'm having doubts because when I installed the dual boot on Computer1 just like you explained, it works perfectly. Now when I installed Win7 on Computer2 as a clean fresh install, I noticed that Win7 uses 100MB for a hidden "System Reserved" partition.

This naturally creates some questions in my mind:

Where is this "System Reserved Partition" in Computer1 with the dual boot?

What will happen if/when I decide I no longer want Vista as part of the dual-boot and I want to go to normal single-boot?

Will the dual-boot menu leave remnants from Vista on the BCD?

I would greatly appreciate some feedback on this......and thanks again for the great video.

Re: Dual Boot Between Windows XP and Windows 7

Montel — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:53:13 GMT

Oh, nevermind; I found the menu.

But uhm..nothing shows up for it..lol. No "C:" "D:" anything..it's just blank....

Re: Dual Boot Between Windows XP and Windows 7

Montel — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:47:42 GMT

How do I get to that menu that you were in at the start?

And so basically to protect my data, I need to create a separate partition for my data only??

Am I at a high risk of losing my data if I dual-boot? When you said "make sure you don't overwrite your current partition" it kinda relieved me for a sec but I'm still sorta paranoid about this whole thing haha

Re: Dual Boot Between Windows XP and Windows 7

Kimberly Nish — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:33:50 GMT

Awesome video! I only work tech support, so I need to have different operating systems or several computers. Love Win7!