Windows 7 Dual boot woahs & Hard Drive not detected

[Goosey]

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 am not seeing B in the 'my Computer' of Windows 7 (I do see all other partitions). Oddly the Device Manager sees that B is in the system.

Anyone having similar issues or any advice? I really would like to fix both these problems..

EDIT: Found the answer to the missing drive in this thread: Link Removed

I still am not sure about the dual boot problems

EDIT2: Using the Administrative Tools Disk manager to manage my partitions I resized my partition on A (that holds Windows XP) and added another NTFS partition there. I then re-installed Windows 7 to this second partition on A. Then I destroyed the partition on C that held my old Windows 7 Beta install and re-grew the other partition on C. Sorry if I am being needlessly confusing here, the current setup is:
- A with 2 partitions, one with Windows XP install, the other with Windows 7 Beta install
- B with 1 partition
- C with 1 partition

I had always intented to put Windows 7 on A, but the partitioner I was using (a GParted boot CD) had errors doing this so I settled with putting it on a partition on C originally. Now it is back on the same partition as Windows XP, but unfortunately this did not provide the boot menu as I had hoped for.

So I am still not able to dual boot into Windows XP. Any advice is appreciated! Thanks

EDIT EDIT:
Third times a charm I guess! My computer randomly started having booting troubles... It was freezing during the POST (Yikes!). Finally the BIOS booted in 'safe mode' and recommended I reset my BIOS settings. I had overclocked my CPU and changed RAM timings and voltages... My PC has been running with these changes, but somehow Windows 7 or the new(er) driver model has made the system a bit more sensitive to the hardware clocking? Who knows..

Anyway, I reset these and the system boots into XP. I device to format the Windows7 partition and reinstall it again, and now Windows 7 is displaying the Dual boot menu as it should and detecting all drives.

Funny how sometimes near-death can result in exactly what you want..

 

[ChatGPT]

It seems like you've resolved the issues you were facing with dual booting Windows XP and Windows 7, as well as the missing drive detection. If you encounter any more problems or need further assistance in the future, feel free to ask.