Dual-booting XP and W7?

gamefreak94 · December 13th, 2008, 09:04

I really want to try out this new OS, but I'm not so keen on erasing my prior XP installs and start all-over; it is, after all, a pre-release build and probably has some stability issues due to that (not blaming MS for this, it's the case with all pre-release software). So can I achieve this? I Googled it and didn't find any substantial material on it, just some retards wanting to quad-boot XP, W7, Ubuntu and Mac OS X

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Smooth Criminal · December 13th, 2008, 09:11

it should be......

i have botted xp,ubuntu,mephis,fedora core together during my heydays

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gamefreak94 · December 13th, 2008, 09:13

Yeah but I think all those distros use that GRUB boot-loader(?), whereas I have no idea what W7 uses.

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Smooth Criminal · December 13th, 2008, 09:20

well try it.........i cant see why it shouldn't work....i mean there is no reason for ii to do so....

and if it does'nt.......that would one of the biggest failure of recent times

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gamefreak94 · December 13th, 2008, 09:37

Don't want to jump into things like this. I'm afraid it'll erase my XP's boot.ini or something

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Squall-Leonhart · December 13th, 2008, 11:02

Vista and W7 install the BCEdit boot manager

gamefreak94 · December 13th, 2008, 11:17

So it'll be the same as Vista?

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Squall-Leonhart · December 13th, 2008, 11:19

yep, though to be honest, you can fix xp by starting a repair install of XP then cancelling it, since it rewrites the boot ini and boot sector.

gamefreak94 · December 13th, 2008, 11:25

I got rid of the BCEdit by inserting the Vista DVD are typing this into Run:

l:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt52 ALL /force

(where "l" represents the drive letter of the optical drive) Worked like a charm and did the job in less then 2 minutes. All I had to do after this was format the Vista partition and it was good as new

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December 13th, 2008, 09:04	#1
gamefreak94 Registered Anime Hater Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Karachi, Pakistan Posts: 8,678	Dual-booting XP and W7? I really want to try out this new OS, but I'm not so keen on erasing my prior XP installs and start all-over; it is, after all, a pre-release build and probably has some stability issues due to that (not blaming MS for this, it's the case with all pre-release software). So can I achieve this? I Googled it and didn't find any substantial material on it, just some retards wanting to quad-boot XP, W7, Ubuntu and Mac OS X __________________ "Don't worry about what people think. They don't do it very often." - Anonymous

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December 13th, 2008, 09:13	#3
gamefreak94 Registered Anime Hater Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Karachi, Pakistan Posts: 8,678	Yeah but I think all those distros use that GRUB boot-loader(?), whereas I have no idea what W7 uses. __________________ "Don't worry about what people think. They don't do it very often." - Anonymous

December 13th, 2008, 09:37	#5
gamefreak94 Registered Anime Hater Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Karachi, Pakistan Posts: 8,678	Don't want to jump into things like this. I'm afraid it'll erase my XP's boot.ini or something __________________ "Don't worry about what people think. They don't do it very often." - Anonymous

December 13th, 2008, 11:02	#6
Squall-Leonhart Banned Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 23,270	Vista and W7 install the BCEdit boot manager

December 13th, 2008, 11:17	#7
gamefreak94 Registered Anime Hater Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Karachi, Pakistan Posts: 8,678	So it'll be the same as Vista? __________________ "Don't worry about what people think. They don't do it very often." - Anonymous

December 13th, 2008, 11:19	#8
Squall-Leonhart Banned Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 23,270	yep, though to be honest, you can fix xp by starting a repair install of XP then cancelling it, since it rewrites the boot ini and boot sector.

December 13th, 2008, 11:25	#9
gamefreak94 Registered Anime Hater Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Karachi, Pakistan Posts: 8,678	I got rid of the BCEdit by inserting the Vista DVD are typing this into Run: l:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt52 ALL /force (where "l" represents the drive letter of the optical drive) Worked like a charm and did the job in less then 2 minutes. All I had to do after this was format the Vista partition and it was good as new __________________ "Don't worry about what people think. They don't do it very often." - Anonymous