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I installed W7 but needed to get rid of it (I did the 32-bit and I'm going to get 4 more GB to bump to 8GB of RAM soon so need the 64-bit) but I am stuck with the W7 boot menu and I can't get XP's back! I have a 500GB drive that I had 320 to XP and 50GB then the rest (about 75GB) unallocated. I...

First post, love the new OS! I installed win 7 to dual boot with XP, the way I saw on lifehacker or basically any other site. They are both installed on a single drive using different partitions. Unless I leave the Win7 DVD in the drive, I dont get to boot to win 7 or even get it as an...

I'm a sadistic French student, so I'm attempting to dual boot Win7-French with Win7-English. Here are my speedbumps so far: The default boot menu just lists the operating system name, since both are called Windows 7, it's unclear. How can I rename the menu options to clarify? I would like...

Hey everyone, just joined the forums as I just tried to install Windows 7. I used the word "tried" because I did not succeed in doing so... Background I was using Windows XP SP3 on a very old computer when I decided to try out Windows 7, just for fun. I knew the OS might be slower than XP, but...

OK, had Win7 running fine with a 40gb WD HD. Win XP (sp3) runs fine on the 80 Gb HD. Decided to get a few bigger hd's and reinstall win 7 for the heck of it. My win XP SP3 works fine when booted up into it. My bios somehow got changed and this is what I came up with to get the thing to run...

Hello all, I have 3 physical drives (lets call them A/B/C, not drive letters just a name). Windows XP is installed on A. C is split into two partitions, one of which Windows 7 Beta is installed to. Now that Windows 7 is running I do not get the expected 'Pick which windows' boot screen. I also...

I have Win 7 installed in a dual boot configuration with XP. How do I change the name of the XP installation, which Win 7 has called "Earlier Version Of Windows", to what it actually is? Thanks.

So I have formatted and re-formatted my computer a couple different times with vista and xp. I got the dual boot thing working at one point but decided finding the drivers for xp was more trouble then it was worth. Now my problem is I have 4 different boot options Vista, Vista, XP and Recovery...

Now, Im guessing you've all heard of these questions and theres probably threads on this, But I am in need of dire help. We all know Vista is flawed and more around its graphical designer rather then its functionality and I've encounterd problems such as: -Random crashing with the use of...

I have a partitioned hard drive and i think im going to install vista rc1 to my d drive which the on the hard drive..i will still have XP on the c drive. If i install vista and don't want it anymore is there a way to get rid of it? also..how do you chose which OS to boot up?..and how do i...

hi there, I'm a new vista user, I'm still discovering....and I've some troubles I want to set up 3 OS (XP/Vista/linux). The last I've installed (Vista), installed its own boot loader (bcd) obviously on disk1, partition1 (partition with XP). Is there a way to install bcd on partition 2...