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This is starting to get boring, what am I missing here or do I have a rouge copy. OK I have installed W7 on a separate hard disc to my XP all went swell till I restarted, it just goes straight into W7. Everything I read said I needed to install EasyBCD and add an entry to the bootloader so I did...

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...

Hi all, i got an XP installed on my C drive.. and about 2 weeks ago i installed the Windows 7 on D drive [which is additional partition of same Hard disk], to test it , anyway i finally formmated the D partition and deleted Windows 7. well - now in every time that my computer starts - im getting...

When playing games via steam I occasionally get a crash followed by the error message. failed to lock vertex buffer in cmesh dx8 According to the FAQ on steam this is caused by a lack of paged pool memory which is reserved for apps like direct3d. To get round this issue its recommended that...

After using GPart to set up two partitions and installing Windows 7 RC1 everything works well in 7. However, when I attempt boot to XP I get the following error, "(windows root)\system32\hall.dll is missing or corrupt." and the system halts. My research indicates this may be a problem with the...

Hi, I have Windows XP installed in my PC.After that I tried to install Windows 7.But after the Win7 installation I am not getting any OS selection option at startup.The PC boot into Win 7 directly. I tried EasyBCD.I tried to create an entry for Win XP .Then it showed a NTDETECT error.Then...

I installed Windows 7 four days ago in addition to an already existing Windows XP installation. After trying hibernation on my windows 7 system, I could not reboot any longer for 'ntldr is missing'. Recovery within Windows 7 repair options failed, so I used EasyBCD in order to be able to boot...

Guys, I would like to uninstall W7. I installed my W7 on Drive E in XP machine (drive C). For your info, Everytime I boot my computer, there are two choices of OS:, XP and W7. Unfortunately, in BOOT.INI in XP, there is no such a choice of W7 startup that I can delete. Any help will be...

I did a clean install of W7 on a completely separate drive with my XP system drives disconnected. Can I modify the boot.ini on my XP system to implement a dual boot??????? What do I have to do on the W7 drive??? thx

Hi, I'm currently setting up a Dual Boot Windows 7 and Windows XP. I installed Windows 7 first, then installed XP second, both installed on seperate partitions. Windows 7 is on the first partition, and XP on the second. When XP installed it overwrote Windows 7's boot.ini with it's own and now I...

I have Windows XP Pro installed on my 120GB. I had the bright idea of dual booting Windows 7. So, I decided I would put that on the 320GB. Windows 7 worked fine but would not dual boot with the XP install. The XP install is intact, but the only way to boot it is to unplug the 320GB Windows 7...

Hi, I installed Win 7 first,then I installed Win XP.After that there isnt any OS choice(Win 7,Win XP),system goes directly to XP.So I repaired the boot using the repair option in the Win 7 DVD.Then I could go to Win 7. But I lost my XP.My current "boot.ini" file has [boot loader]...

Hey all, Seems that when i installed windows 7, it changed my boot priority (I'm running XP and windows 7 at the moment) and it loads into windows 7 by default on boot, but also the selection screen timer is only like 2 or 3 seconds so i barely have time to decide. Does anyone know if theres a...

downloaded the win7 beta from the microsoft site and burned the ISO file to a DVD disc using ImgBurn. My next plan is to do the install (which I haven't done yet). I have XP on 1 physical disk drive C: What I want to do is install the win7 beta on another disk drive. Larry at the computer shop...

hellow all this is my first thread i have windows xp on c: drive and vista on D: drive for some reasons i have to reformat patetion c: and reinstall win xp after that windows vista disappear from the boot ini so i cant choose vista and when i add a script to boot ini i began to see...

I Have done this before but I can't really remember how, I have XP installed on my master and Vista running of the slave, I had to boot configuation running fine but I had to reinstall XP due to issues which overwrote my boot config, I tried adding it to the boot.ini but It just sitts when...

OK, new problem. I have searched high and low ALL DAY for how to add Vista to my boot.ini file. I know how to access it, and tried to write a syntax for loading Vista, but when I select it at startup, it goes blank and stays there. I can select XP fine and it works. The only info that showed up...