fight2fight

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Hi,

i wanted to give windows 7 ago, and before i installed windows 7 i had dual boot running all fine, like installed XP, and vista later on,

but when i installed windows 7 it doesn't show in the boot up menu only Xp and vista, but if i go into the bios setting and change which hard drive to boot first and swap it, windows 7 boots straight in,

now before i installed windows 7, i partition a drive from my vista HDD and installed windows 7 on that??

now all i need is how do i get windows 7 showing up in the boot menu along with XP & Vista??

and i tried using vistaboot pro but i get error messages, and i also tried something else, that windows 7 will show in the boot up menu if the disc is in the drive before boot up?? very weird...


thanks
 
Solution
You would be better copying the XP bootfiles from XP partition onto 7 partition.

Boot into 7

Copy and paste ntldr, boot.ini and ntdetect.com. onto root of 7 partition.

Open Easybcd and delete the XP entry.

Then add a new XP entry - this time point it at C
Hi,

Thought so.

You need to switch the way the drives are plugged in .

You want Vista/7 HD to be Disk 0

XP HD to be Disk 1

The Storage HD to be Disk 2.
 
thanks for the 100th time Lol..

all works perfect now...

what i done was change the sata ports order like made win 7 as sata 1 and xp sata 2 and storage drive as sata 3 and re ordered them through the bios and all working perfectly...

great learning process this was...

thanks again for all the help and assistance...
 
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