[albchong]

Thanks kp1966 - I'll try that and let you know...

...It worked just like you said

You're the man Thanks again

[Grav!ty]

Top of the thread updated with the first completed dual boot guide

[JKo]

Everything went well until I tried to boot into XP. I get error saying missing or corrupt HAL.DLL. I do not have a BOOT.INI file anywhere that I can find (nor on my backups). Is that the problem? BTW - running XP-Pro 32bit, Vista Business 64bit, and Windows7 64bit.

[Grav!ty]

Everything went well until I tried to boot into XP. I get error saying missing or corrupt HAL.DLL. I do not have a BOOT.INI file anywhere that I can find (nor on my backups). Is that the problem? BTW - running XP-Pro 32bit, Vista Business 64bit, and Windows7 64bit.

Have you made all files and folders visible in Folder Options and unhidden protected operating system files JKo?

The Hal.dll message can be as a result of an incorrect or missing boot.ini but it is highly unlikely that XP will install and not create a boot.ini. I'd suggest check in the System partition and you may need to allocate a drive letter to it in Windows 7 to be able to see the contents if there is no drive letter allocated yet.

[jrfree1]

It is a known issue in Windows 7 that if you install Windows 7 from booting a DVD (as opposed to starting the installation from within a current Windows installation), that Windows 7 will not assign a drive letter to active system partition. This can be corrected by manually assigning a drive letter through the Disk Manager in the Computer Management console, or to prevent it from happening, install Windows 7 from within a running Windows Vista installation.

PS - hi everyone

[Grav!ty]

Hey Jeff, good to see you around

What I'd be really interested in knowing is what MS is wanting to achieve with the way Win 7 handles the System partition. Why is it hiding the partition?

[albchong]

I'd be interested in that too, as well as why windows requires a user to change access rights to that volume before it can be accessed.

Note to mod. Sorry if I'm writing in the wrong post.

Regards,

Albert