Dual Boot Windows 7 - Windows Vista - and/or Windows XP
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Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 - Windows Vista - and/or Windows XP
Thanks kp1966 - I'll try that and let you know...
...It worked just like you said
You're the man Thanks again
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Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 - Windows Vista - and/or Windows XP
Top of the thread updated with the first completed dual boot guide
Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 - Windows Vista - and/or Windows XP
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.
Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 - Windows Vista - and/or Windows XP
JKo wrote: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.
Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 - Windows Vista - and/or Windows XP
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
PS - hi everyone
Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 - Windows Vista - and/or Windows XP
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?
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?
Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 - Windows Vista - and/or Windows XP
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
Note to mod. Sorry if I'm writing in the wrong post.
Regards,
Albert
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Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 - Windows Vista - and/or Windows XP
I have selfbuilt PC with 2 750GB HDDs, original OS is Windows XP and recently installed Windows 7 on the 2nd HDD. All was working well, including a DOS screen allowing me to choose which OS to boot with, then suddenly, the 'choice' screen now appears so fleetingly that a choice is impossible, it proceeds then to Windows XP. How do I get a useable choice screen back?
Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 - Windows Vista - and/or Windows XP
I believe that under System Properties there is an advanced tab. If you select the Startup and Recovery button there is an option to select the "Time to display list of operating systems" which can be adjust to suit your need.
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Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 - Windows Vista - and/or Windows XP
albchong wrote:I believe that under System Properties there is an advanced tab. If you select the Startup and Recovery button there is an option to select the "Time to display list of operating systems" which can be adjust to suit your need.
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Appreciate the reply, changed to 75 seconds, however, the choice screen still 'flies' by so I cannot opt for Windows 7, any other suggestions? Thanks.
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