How to boot second partition if internal HD is split

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Hello,

I have a hard drive running W7. I then partitioned the HD and in the second partition I copied a clone of another computer's HD with Windows XP. I'm hoping to boot the windows XP partition, but I don't get the option when booting -> it goes straight to W7. Is there any way to accomplish this?

THANKS IN ADVANCED FOR ANY ASSISTANCE!
 
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USAFRet
A clone (or more properly an image) is a theoretical exact representation of this install, on this PC.

If you want to use that image on a different PC, very often that install will choke upon seeing the new hardware. Very often = almost always.

Just like taking a hard drive out of one PC, and expecting it to magically work on a completely different PC. Sometimes, yes. But more often, no.

And unless you used the original cloning application to put that image on the secondary partition....that really, really won't work.

The boot info does not know about that other theoretical XP partition. Try getting into the boot choice at startup. That will allow you to maybe choose what partition to boot from.
See what happens.

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copied a clone of another computer's HD
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For several reasons, this is not acting how you think it should:

Copy a clone? That's not gonna work
Proper clone from one hardware set to another? That probably won't work either.
Your boot manager has no idea of that other OS. On power on, possibly get into your boot selection and tell it which partition to boot from. But that probably will not work.
 
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Hi USAFRet (before anything, if you're USAF - my respects)

"Copy a clone? That's not gonna work"

Why is this not going to work? Maybe I used the terminology incorrectly. Why I did is a cloned a WinXP HD to the second partition of my Win7 HD. Is this the same thing? Why wouldn't a "Proper clone from one hardware set to another?" work either?

My boot manager for some reason only sees the internal HD as one. I think it is not seeing the HD as 2 HDs.

If none of this would work, what would be the way to make it work? I can recreate the clone and delete the partition etc... I was following instructions from some blog...

Again, Thanks! and My respects and thanks!
 
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A clone (or more properly an image) is a theoretical exact representation of this install, on this PC.

If you want to use that image on a different PC, very often that install will choke upon seeing the new hardware. Very often = almost always.

Just like taking a hard drive out of one PC, and expecting it to magically work on a completely different PC. Sometimes, yes. But more often, no.

And unless you used the original cloning application to put that image on the secondary partition....that really, really won't work.

The boot info does not know about that other theoretical XP partition. Try getting into the boot choice at startup. That will allow you to maybe choose what partition to boot from.
See what happens.

And lastly...you really need to ditch XP. 55 days until it becomes an undefended target.
 
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You should set you cloned partition to active partition in order to boot. Also, before making this partition you will have to unistall all drivers that XP found on your original hardware where you made the copy from. USAFRet is right. If you don't do this you'll have a blue screen in the destination hardware.

You can remove the driver configurations by going to device manager and unistalling all drivers. After this clone your XP partition without restarting.
 
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