Orange Battery Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 Hi Please forgive me for this stupid question, for some reason I haven't kept notes on how I done this and Google is not being my friend. I have a PC with Windows XP installed and want to dual boot it with Windows 8 upgrade edition. I have 5 licences for XP, one of which I used as an upgrade to 8. The XP installation on my PC does not have the license that i used to upgrade to 8 so no problems there but for the life of me I can't remember how I done it last time. I have had to replace my hard drive, I have cloned XP and 8 across but the MBR didn't make the copy (bigger drive) so I had to do an XP repair to bring it back. I'm happy to reinstall 8 as i don't use that much (yet) but I don't remember how to do the dual boot. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arachno 1D Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 Hmm not reading that too good.......just for clarity You have one partioned hard drive You have XP on one partition You have Windows 8 on a second exteneded partition The boot loader only sees XP? If all the above is correct running the Windows 8 MBR repair tool should find both installs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Battery Posted September 8, 2013 Author Share Posted September 8, 2013 Hmm not reading that too good.......just for clarity You have one partioned hard drive You have XP on one partition You have Windows 8 on a second exteneded partition The boot loader only sees XP? If all the above is correct running the Windows 8 MBR repair tool should find both installs That's right, it's strange though because it doesnt seem to find 8. My solution is just to reinstall 8 again but I don't remember how I managed to keep XP in place last time and get 8(upgrade edition) installed as well without having to install a second copy of XP on the extended partition and then 8 over it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killerninja Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 All you need to do is throw dog poo at a cop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arachno 1D Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 you need to run the install from within xp and be careful not to choose the upgrade option Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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