DUAL BOOT DRIVE LETTER REASSIGNED. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.setup () please bare with me. I partitioned a 17 gb drive one partition is 12gb (C DRIVE) the other is 5 gb (D DRIVE) Forst I installed WIN98 on the smaller drive (of...

Dual boot drive failed. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support () Hello all, I was running a dual-boot system of 98 and XP, but the 98 harddrive has failed, leaving me without a boot.ini file on the XP drive that will launch....

to avoids any complications/issues with dual boot. Appreciate your insights. Best regards, John. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general () I've read through many dual boot posts and still wonder about one thing. I have a new...

M$ there should be some detailed procedure (XP/Vista dual boot), but if you follow the simple instructions I provided the dual boot will work great for you. ^+1 I also have win7 64/XP 32 dual boot on separate hard drives. As badge said install XP first...

XP/win7 Dual Boot. Don't understand Win7's dual boot procedure. PC started with XP (DISK0, drive C: ). Added a second hard drive (DISK1, F: ) and put Win7 on that drive. When I boot to Win7, drive F is the OS drive. I'm not fond of the OS being on a...

Win 7 on C: drive, d: drive (old partiction was c:) Restarted. Would NOT boot XP (missing Hal.dll). After reinstall (made a mistake of making the new C:drive ACTIVE) of the C: drive (small partition with Win 7), could still not dual boot. Used...

7 is there. But if you install windows xp first and then 7 then you will get a proper dual boot menu at start-up. I am myself dual booting those 2 OS but only on a single HD. Ah :(, but EasyBCD will fix it? I unplugged the XP drive, booted up and windows...

is easily brought up by pressing a function key at boot. This will allow you to change the boot drive on the fly, it's easy. I suppose the regular dual boot method you are asking about can also be used on two separate drives? It's been a while I can't recall...

I was installing W7 on and installed that. then I connected all my drives (bios is set to boot from the XP drive) and when I want to boot to W7 at post I hit esc (it brings up my boot menu) and just pick the W7 drive as my boot drive and go on from there. It...

dual booting 7 with xp. just a quick question to those who have already played around with windows 7 are there any unexpected snags involved when creating a dual boot with a pre-existing xp installation and then installing w7 on a second drive on the machine?...