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| Thread ID: 106260 | 2010-01-03 00:13:00 | Question on formatting dual boot Win 7/XP | minster (9180) | Press F1 |
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| 845001 | 2010-01-03 00:13:00 | I have Win 7 64bit and XP Pro 32bit installed as dual boot. Both are in seperate partitions 'E' and 'C' on the same hard drive. I was wondering what would happen if the Win 7 os needed to be reformatted (Virus, New install or whatever) I do have original install discs for both. Is it possible to just reformat the Win 7 partition without corrupting the XP 'C' drive and will dual boot still work okay? |
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| 845002 | 2010-01-03 00:17:00 | Should work, just format / reinstall Win7 on whatever partition Win7 is on now. XP should stay where it is. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 845003 | 2010-01-03 00:46:00 | You might need to rebuild the master boot record is all depending on which is used | gary67 (56) | ||
| 845004 | 2010-01-03 06:05:00 | Thank you both:) | minster (9180) | ||
| 845005 | 2010-01-03 18:06:00 | If you're re-installing Win7, it'll be fine. If you're re-installing WinXP, you'll need to boot the Win7 CD and have it re-install it's bootloader, or you'll find you only get the option of booting WinXP on startup. |
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