pqee Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 I had XP on one partition that I split to make room for Windows 7. Rebooted, picked to boot from DVD (via ESC boot menu, not bios setting) and Windows 7 started to install fine. On first reboot though XP loaded up with no options to choose the OS. I tried to boot from DVD again but it just restarts the installation again instead of continuing. To get it to continue I had to hit ESC to get my boot menu, pick my primary HD (same one with my XP partition). Then I get the option to choose Windows 7 or Older version of Windows (haven't tried this but presume it'll load XP). So I can dual boot but if I don't manually pick my HD from my boot menu XP loads up without any prompts. I plan to wipe my XP partition and reinstall Win7 anyways but want to figure out why my boot setup is so messed up. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwfmike Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 I had XP on one partition that I split to make room for Windows 7. Rebooted, picked to boot from DVD (via ESC boot menu, not bios setting) and Windows 7 started to install fine. On first reboot though XP loaded up with no options to choose the OS. I tried to boot from DVD again but it just restarts the installation again instead of continuing. To get it to continue I had to hit ESC to get my boot menu, pick my primary HD (same one with my XP partition). Then I get the option to choose Windows 7 or Older version of Windows (haven't tried this but presume it'll load XP). So I can dual boot but if I don't manually pick my HD from my boot menu XP loads up without any prompts. I plan to wipe my XP partition and reinstall Win7 anyways but want to figure out why my boot setup is so messed up. Any ideas? Did anyone come up with a fix for this? I'm having the same problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windows 7 x64 Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 I had a similiar problem, I formated my XP partition -- I had XP Pro & Vista -- and installed Win7 to it...it killed my bootloader, so I lost the ability to boot into Vista until someone pointed me in the direction of EasyBCD: http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 Which fixed the problem, I can now boot into either Vista or Win7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwfmike Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 I tried that program but it doesn't work for XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwfmike Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 (edited) Here is my current Boot.ini that loads when my computer starts: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(8)\WINDOWS="Windows 7" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT /USEPMTIMER I added the windows 7 entry myself and when I try to boot into it, I get just a black screen that doesn't load. I still get the actual windows 7 boot screen when I manually select the hard drive to boot through the boot menu from my bios. How can I see the Windows 7 boot.ini? Maybe I can just copy it over to my boot.ini that actually loads with the pc. Edit. I was reading that there is no windows 7 boot.ini. Another FYI, when I boot into XP and 7, they both show themselves as the C: drive, dunno if this is normal. Edited May 11, 2009 by wwfmike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwfmike Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 This is really starting to confuse me. I have 3 drives. (using the Win7 Computer Management) My primary is a 600GB Sata drive which shows as Disk 2. I have Partition 1 as Windows XP and Partition 8 as Windows 7. Then a 250GB which shows as Disk 1 Then a 300GB which shows as Disk 0 When I boot with Disk 2, it loads the boot.ini on partition 1 and loads Windows XP When I boot with Disk 1, it loads the windows 7 boot loader. Computer management from XP shows the XP drive as C: and the boot drive while the computer management from win7 shows the win7 drive as C: and the boot drive. Im stumped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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