Dual boot after the fact
in [Windows XP]
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From: Alpha on 26 Jun 2010 14:27 My response at bottom: "Frank" <fb(a)esd.clm> wrote in message news:4c264122$1(a)news.x-privat.org... > On 6/26/2010 6:24 AM, Alpha wrote: >> Installed Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit successfully on one machine. >> We still have the original Windows XP Pro SP3 Acronis image stored on a >> second hard drive on that PC. (It has two hard drives - one is for the >> OS, >> the other for data plus the page file). >> We know we can create a new system drive active partition by resizing the >> current Windows 7 one, and restore the Windows XP image to it. >> Will that make it a dual-boot PC by itself? >> Or, what else has to be done? Like modifying their boot files, for >> instance. >> And how? >> We wish to avoid a solution that avoids reinstalling either OS. >> We did not envision a dual-boot scenario earlier. >> Regards and TIA. >> Alpha >> -------- > You can restore the XP image to the partition but before doing that I > suggest you dl & install EasyBCD, a Windows 7 boot manager, on Windows 7: > > http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 > > Then after you've restored the XP image, boot to 7 and open EasyBCD and > put XP into the boot manager. > HTH Thanks for the helpful response. That makes sense and I think I can handle the task. Will do so in a day or so. Will post back! Regards. :-) Alpha --------
From: Peter Foldes on 26 Jun 2010 15:55 Frank Huh? EasyBCD on the Enterprise version? I do not think so. Keep to what you do best ,and that is to show off your clown act -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. http://www.microsoft.com/protect "Frank" <fb(a)esd.clm> wrote in message news:4c264122$1(a)news.x-privat.org... > On 6/26/2010 6:24 AM, Alpha wrote: >> Installed Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit successfully on one machine. >> We still have the original Windows XP Pro SP3 Acronis image stored on a >> second hard drive on that PC. (It has two hard drives - one is for the OS, >> the other for data plus the page file). >> We know we can create a new system drive active partition by resizing the >> current Windows 7 one, and restore the Windows XP image to it. >> Will that make it a dual-boot PC by itself? >> Or, what else has to be done? Like modifying their boot files, for instance. >> And how? >> We wish to avoid a solution that avoids reinstalling either OS. >> We did not envision a dual-boot scenario earlier. >> Regards and TIA. >> Alpha >> -------- >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > You can restore the XP image to the partition but before doing that I suggest you > dl & install EasyBCD, a Windows 7 boot manager, on Windows 7: > > http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 > > Then after you've restored the XP image, boot to 7 and open EasyBCD and put XP > into the boot manager. > HTH >
From: Jim on 26 Jun 2010 16:18 On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 06:24:18 -0700, "Alpha" <alpha(a)do.not.respond> wrote: > >Installed Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit successfully on one machine. >We still have the original Windows XP Pro SP3 Acronis image stored on a >second hard drive on that PC. (It has two hard drives - one is for the OS, >the other for data plus the page file). >We know we can create a new system drive active partition by resizing the >current Windows 7 one, and restore the Windows XP image to it. >Will that make it a dual-boot PC by itself? >Or, what else has to be done? Like modifying their boot files, for instance. >And how? >We wish to avoid a solution that avoids reinstalling either OS. >We did not envision a dual-boot scenario earlier. >Regards and TIA. >Alpha >-------- > > > > > > > > > > > > Virtual hard drive ? One OS inside the original OS .
From: Trimble Bracegirdle on 26 Jun 2010 21:29 Alpha: IMO you need to be vary careful or it could end up in a number of possible messes. Win XP & Win 7 use the Boot up part of the Disc in significantly different ways. One good solution is to copy that XP install to one Hard Disc entirely separate from Win 7 . You could Forget about Dual Boot Managers. Then to boot one or the other by going into the BIOS setup at start up & selecting which of the two HD's is the Boot Disc. (\__/) (='.'=) (")_(") mouse
From: Alpha on 27 Jun 2010 14:39
"Trimble Bracegirdle" <no-spam(a)never.spam> wrote in message news:i069ht$ad0$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > Alpha: IMO you need to be vary careful or it could end up in a number > of possible messes. > Win XP & Win 7 use the Boot up part of the Disc in significantly different > ways. > > One good solution is to copy that XP install to one Hard Disc entirely > separate from Win 7 . You could Forget about Dual Boot Managers. > Then to boot one or the other by going into the BIOS setup at start up & > selecting which of the two HD's is the Boot Disc. > (\__/) > (='.'=) > (")_(") mouse We are coming to the same conclusion after the experimentation this morning and yesterday evening! Actually we might just restore XP to a reduced partition on the system drive and do a fresh install of Windows 7 Enterprise on the other partition. Then the Win 7 boot manager should automatically configure the right multi-boot situation. Which we here should have done in the first place! Regards and thanks again. :-) Alpha -------- |