cannot get win xp to dual boot with win 7

Removing Windows XP SP3 on Dual Boot with Windows 7
location: 7forums.com - date: November 3, 2009
I Cleaned installed Windows 7 (64bit) to dual boot with my already existing Windows XP SP3 (32bit). Everything is great and life is fantastic! I'm ready to remove XP now. Any suggestions on the steps to follow, and remove XP, without screwing up my fast, great and fully working Windows 7. Thanx.
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Dual boot with Windows 7, and XP no longer appears in Boot Manager
location: 7forums.com - date: October 2, 2012
Hello, I have been using windows xp for a long time. I have two actual HD, one partitioned into 4, and another without any partition, giving me a total of 5. I was using two instance of windows xp installed in drive C and another in drive E (both are actually located in just one HD, but the other HD somehow got in between the two) I finally decided to change the windows xp in drive C into windows 7. After installation, my previous option of choosing between which windows xp to use no longer appears and it goes straight to my new windows 7. I tried these four command : bcdedit /create {ntldr} /d "Windows XP" bcdedit /set {ntldr} device partition=E: bcdedit /set {ntldr} path \ntldr bcdedit /displayorder {ntldr} /addlast
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How to remove xp from dual boot with Windows 7
location: 7forums.com - date: October 17, 2011
Hello all, I need to do this as per thread title and just wanted to make sure exactly what to do in the easiest way possible. Please see my disk management picture. Ths system is currently set up by using easyBCD to go straight to windows 7 see below: There are a total of 2 entries listed in the bootloader. Default: Windows 7 Timeout: 5 seconds EasyBCD Boot Device: I:\ Entry #1 Name: Windows 7 BCD ID: {current} Drive: C:\ Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe Entry #2 Name: Windows XP Pro BCD ID: {3d0dd6c4-cbb4-11de-a029-0019663bbbba} Drive: I:\ Bootloader Path: \NTLDR I: is the active partition with C: being the logical where Win 7 resides. F: is a data area to remain unharmed. There are no files whatsoever on I: that in
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Installing Windows 8 doesn't dual boot with Windows 7
location: 7forums.com - date: December 31, 2012
I have a HP g6-2151se notebook Before Installing windows 8 I had Widows 7 Home Basic x64 with 4 Primary Partitions 1. C: labelled 'Local Disk' which had Windows 7 installed. 2. F: labelled 'Windows 8 Pro' to install windows 8 in it. 3. D: labelled 'RECOVERY'. 4. Hidden Partition labelled 'HP_TOOLS'. After Installing Windows 8 in an empty partition F: My laptop directly boots into windows 8 without any option. When I checked the Disk management The letters got changed and I cannot open the Local Disk partition. Here is a screenshot of my Disk management. Here is the screenshot of the popup I get when I open Local Disk When I press cancel This pops up Also that every time I reboot my laptop at the start screen I get " Scannin
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How do I install Windows 8 Release Preview as a dual boot with Windows 7?
location: microsoft.com - date: June 26, 2012
i'm using HP touch screen all-in one desktop win.7 64 bit,If I try win.8preview release can I still have win.7 on my pc?   I need to know how I can try windows 8 preview release witout takinging windows 7 off wich was pre-installed when I bought this computer??
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How do I dual boot with Windows 7 wth a windows 8 already installed?
location: microsoft.com - date: March 16, 2013
I have a new laptop with pre-installed Windows 8.   I want to know how to dual-boot with Windows 7 Professional.   Thanks.
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Questions before creating XP Dual Boot from Windows 7
location: 7forums.com - date: March 7, 2010
Hello, Thanks for any help you can provide. I just bought a new HP laptop with Windows 7 on it and I want to create a dual boot with XP so I can still run ProToolsLE 7.0 for music recording. I read the great tutorial here: Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP and I just wanted to get a few things straight before I try to do this (never done this before). Processor is I3-330 and hard drive is 500 GB 7200 RPM SATA drive. 1a. (Do I need to do anything different from Tutorial with a SATA hard drive?) 1. Currently there are 3 drives: C: Local Disk, D: Recovery, E: HP_Tools. I don't want to delete any of these drives; Can I still create a new drive or should I delete everything on the D: drive? Is there a proper way to cleans
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Dual Boot with Windows 7 and 8! Windows 7 not working!
location: 7forums.com - date: May 31, 2013
Hi everyone. I posted yesterday on my dual booting problem with my partitions but a forum member named gregrocker kindly helped me out throughout the process. Windows 8 worked fine after I installed it and I even signed in and did everything I could on a normal Windows 8 PC. When I booted up my system, I even saw the Windows bootloader menu asking me if I wanted Windows 8 or Windows 7. I picked Windows 8 the first 2 times and it worked fine and then I picked Windows 7 and it launched the HP Automatic Recovery instead of Windows 7. I panicked and I just did I full system restore back to factory condition. Now I can successfully boot into Windows 7 but Windows 8 is gone and the partition that I had created for Windows 8, I just formatted it s
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Need Help with Bootcamp Dual boot with windows 7
location: 7forums.com - date: July 20, 2010
im having a problem on my macbook w/ mac os x 10.4.9 and installed windows 7 via campboot.... but after i finished the installation and restarted it while holding down the option key, it wont show the selection of operating systems instead, i got this password box........ i also cannot boot back to my mac os and also on my dvd even pressing 'C' button (seems any boot key combinations are not working coz i got no apple logo and no chime sound at startup)... but it can load to windows 7.... what will i do.. im out of ideas... having no luck with boatloader easybcd.... i inserted ubuntu 10.04 and boot from there... i navigate to disk utility and i can see there the hs+ partition of my mac... i itried to fsck that drive but i just can
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Well here's an other one.. once again dual boot with windows 7
location: 7forums.com - date: May 5, 2012
So I got an other setup done with the same parts as the first, for my office. Trying to install two windows 7 again. Here's the exact steps. Open case Unplug all HDD's Plugin HDD 1 Iinstall windows. Boot to see if windows boot, it does! Unplug HDD 1 (Media BCD, DISK E:) Plugin HDD 2 (Normal, DISK C:) Install windows Boot to see if windows boot, it does. Plugin HDD1 Boot to use the one time boot options, both can boot. But HDD 2 (normal) is the default one. Install easybcd to make the boot manager. Easybcd does not see any boot at all, the edit boot window is empty. Adding a new entry in easybcd does nothing, even if it tells me it was added successfully, I still can't see it in the edit boot menu. I really don't know what's going on and
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