Windows 7 Losing XP after installing Windows 7

[woopud]

Hi, I have succesfully installed Windows 7 a couple of times on my HP zd8000 laptop and everything runs very smooth except the fact that I always loose the ability to dual boot with XP, I have a 100GB hard drive which is formatted in two partitions using gParted. The frist partition holds XP and then I can always install 7 on the second partition but during installation it never sees my XP partition and upon boot it automaticly boots into 7 without the option of choosing XP. How can I fix this ?

Bert

 

[Radenight]

I would suggest using the program EasyBCD to modify your boot manager.. It's a very easy to use program and lets you setup the boot manager pretty much however you want to.. it's available here:

Download EasyBCD 1.7.2 - NeoSmart Technologies

If you still can't get it to work after messing around with EasyBCD, let me know...

 

[woopud]

I forgot to mention that, I tried that too but even EasyBCD couldn't detect the XP partition, every time I ended up re-installing XP and losing Windows 7...

Bert

Also, I noticed that after installing Windows 7 it automaticle named it's partition the C: drive and the XP somehow ends up being on the D: drive while before installation my XP resides on the C: drive and the empty partition is the D: drive. Maybe I should install XP first on the second partition (D) and then install Windows 7 on the C drive ?

Bert

 

[davehc]

There is a very similar thread running. For the moment they should not be merged, as the solutions could be slightly different. See here:
http://windows7forums.com/windows-7-support/2570-cant-boot-into-xp.html