Booting Win XP in Windows 7 (dual-boot)

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Carlm90

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Is it easy to basically make a dual boot between Windows XP Professional and Windows 7?

A friend is running Windows 7 and needs Win XP Professional for work.

We have the Windows 7 discs, laptop and a legit Win XP Professional installation disc so what's the correct process for making the dual-boot as easy as possible?

Thanks :good:

Edit: Can I use software like http://www.vistabootpro.org/ ?
 
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It is simple just install Windows XP on a Different Drive. It will do it. Just keep in mind that the drive must have atleast 2-4GB of space.
 
I understand that I need to install it on another partition but I was wondering if anyone knows a link to the simplest tutorial?

Should I just shrink the drive on Win 7 and then just put the Win XP Professional disc in and it will direct me to which drive I want to install it on?
 
I had XP on my computer which I wanted to keep. I bought the full version of windows 7 home premium, bought a second internal HDD and installed the drive.
As I understand it for dual boot you install XP first then 7 on the other HDD and you will get the option to choose which O/S to run. I did not know that at the time and was advised to unplug the XP hard drive while I installed 7 on the new drive.
I did that and it went ok but then I had to go into the Bios each time to choose the O/S to boot. A member on here told me what to do to obviate this and now I have a working dual boot system on two HDDs where I am given the option at start up.
 
So is it viable to install the other OS on the same HD? It is a powerful laptop so it won't have any problems running both.
 
firefrost said:
I had XP on my computer which I wanted to keep. I bought the full version of windows 7 home premium, bought a second internal HDD and installed the drive.
As I understand it for dual boot you install XP first then 7 on the other HDD and you will get the option to choose which O/S to run. I did not know that at the time and was advised to unplug the XP hard drive while I installed 7 on the new drive.
I did that and it went ok but then I had to go into the Bios each time to choose the O/S to boot. A member on here told me what to do to obviate this and now I have a working dual boot system on two HDDs where I am given the option at start up.
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Can you give a link to the post please?
 
In win 7, right click computer and and click properties.
click advanced system settings.
The third option is 'startup and recovery', click on settings
In the dropdown box choose old windows version or something similar.
click apply.
Speedylink posted this on 21/2/2010 post no 6.in answer to my thread 'Dual Boot XP & Win 7 Update'
 
You can also try downloading a program called Easybcd. Be careful with it, it is very powerful....But it can also find other installs and add them to the bootloader. After installing it go to the add remove entries menu and from the drop down menu select windows NT/2k/XP/2k3, then the drive/partition it is loaded on
 
firefrost said:
In win 7, right click computer and and click properties.
click advanced system settings.
The third option is 'startup and recovery', click on settings
In the dropdown box choose old windows version or something similar.
click apply.
Speedylink posted this on 21/2/2010 post no 6.in answer to my thread 'Dual Boot XP & Win 7 Update'
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Oh, I know that one. I thought you were doing something else.
 
It is true, that dual boot is not as easy as it was for xp. Can microsoft provide support in this regard? You may want to try that because i searched the web for various options but it did not come up with convincing answers. I am running xp and 7 on the same hard disk but it has messed up a few things. To start with, it has swapped my drive letters for some reason (C has become D, E has become C, D has become E). 7 behaves strangely sometimes..

Apart from this, believe it or not, i cannot read comments section on websites! This happens on all websites. I thought it had something to do with fonts but i was apparently wrong. It doesnt happen on my friends PC which also has 7.
 
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