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| Thread ID: 108517 | 2010-04-01 02:48:00 | Dual Boot of XP and Windows 7 | FaultiestScaran (15589) | Press F1 |
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| 871673 | 2010-04-01 06:16:00 | I have seen that from the countless Google searches I have done and it isn't that simple. | FaultiestScaran (15589) | ||
| 871674 | 2010-04-01 06:44:00 | Maybe this could be helpful apcmag.com lled_first.htm?page=5 (Previous pages of this article have links at bottom of page). |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 871675 | 2010-04-01 06:48:00 | I forgot about APC, even got a bookmark for it | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 871676 | 2010-04-01 11:10:00 | There is an extra entry in there .... I tried using the CMD and following a website just now but the same thing. Then saw anythere site (severforums) that said boot into Windows XP and run Easy BCD inside XP, get it to rebuild the boot.ini and then add the Windows 7 bootmgr but still the same problem My EasyBCD setup is exactly like yours, except for the order of the OSes: i46.photobucket.com Maybe try re-arranging the order of the OSes in your setup; don't know if that'll help. |
xmojo1 (4630) | ||
| 871677 | 2010-04-04 10:39:00 | If one HD is SATA & the other PATA (ide) the PATA will always be Master regardless of your Bios settings. Try copying the start files ( boot.ini & NTLDR) on your XP partition to your W7 partition, then edit the boot.ini to direct the start menu to the correct drive/partition. This worked for me. |
mzee (3324) | ||
| 871678 | 2010-04-04 11:12:00 | If one HD is SATA & the other PATA (ide) the PATA will always be Master regardless of your Bios settings. Wrong. If you go into the BIOS and tell it what drive to boot first, either the sata or IDE, it will boot the drive you tell it to. I do that all the time, at least daily during the week. One of my workshop PC's had sata Drives, the others have IDE and customers drives can be sata or IDE, I want it to boot from my drive so I can clean them. Edited: re the dual booting, I had this problem a while ago - I had to have EBCD set up on both XP and W7 - then once they both booted as you wanted, you could uninstall it from XP, it HAD to stay in W7 -- Have a look at This thread (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) #5 |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 871679 | 2010-04-14 04:10:00 | On my desktop if I put an Ide in it, it will always override the sata, regardless of the Bios boot settings. Makes no difference if I make it slave or cable select. I have a removable tray so I can work on other drives. It always tries to boot on the ide drive in the tray. |
mzee (3324) | ||
| 871680 | 2010-04-14 04:35:00 | There's something wrong then. Unless the SATA has nothing on it, then the IDE will boot, if its got the OS on it. And it wont be master unless its jumpered as master. And SATA's are always master, since SATA's cant be jumpered, and cant be jumpered as slave What else is on the same IDE connection as the IDE? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 871681 | 2010-04-14 04:38:00 | You may be doing something wrong then, I have 3 workshop PC's some with removable drives as well. If I attach either a IDE or SATA drive to them, just enter the BIOS, select the HDD to boot first and it always does. Just done it 4 times in the last hour with a combo of IDE / SATA drives. Every PC I have ever worked on is the same - if required. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
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