hmmm,
while it is a good to know information, there are two difficulties with
this approach.
firstly, with the windows 7 being provided with the "XP Mode" installing
two OSes might not be needed.
secondly, by the virtue of up grading from windows xp to windows 7,
Microsoft's licencing agreement clearly states that, once you have upgraded
to windows 7 from any earlier version of windows, your previous licence
becomes void & may no longer be used either to dual boot a computer or to
install another copy of that OS on another computer.\
save that, of course, it is a good to know information.
----- Original Message -----
From: "srikanth kanuri" <[email protected]>
To: "accessindia" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 9:04 AM
Subject: [AI] Dual Boot Your Pre-Installed Windows 7 Computer with XP
Dual Boot Your Pre-Installed Windows 7 Computer with XP
So you got your shiny new pre-installed Windows 7 computer over the
holidays, but you want to have trusty XP standing by in a dual boot
setup. Today we’ll
walk through creating a new partition in Windows 7 then installing XP on it.
In this process we are going to shrink some free space on the Windows
7 hard drive to allocate toward a new
partition. Make sure to take a moment and decide
how much space to use for the XP partition. Make sure you have enough
space on your hard drive for files you’ll be adding to each.
Create a New Partition
The first thing we need to do is create a new partition on the Windows
7 machine. Luckily we can do it without any 3rd party software. To
begin, click on
Start and type either partition or disk management into the search box
and at the top of the menu click on Create and format hard disk
partitions.
The Disk Management window opens, and from here we need to free up
space on the (C:) drive Windows 7 is installed on. Right-click on the
drive and select
Shrink Volume.
A window pops up showing the drive is being queried for available space.
Now enter the amount of space you want to shrink the volume. You’re
shown the total size of the disk and the amount of size that is
available to shrink.
After the process completes you’ll see the new Unallocated space.
Right-click that and select New Simple Volume.
The New Simple Volume Wizard launches which is a straight forward
process. When you get to the Format Partition section, NTFS is
selected by default as
the file system and you can leave that as is. You might want to rename
the Volume label something else like “XP Partition” so it’s easier to
identify when
installing XP. Also you’ll probably want to make sure to check Perform
a Quick Format.
After the format is complete you will see the new volume as a healthy
partition listed.
Now when you go into My Computer you’ll see the the new disk and
notice that space has been taken away from the (C:) drive Windows 7 is
installed on.
Install XP on the New Partition
Now that you know how to create a new partition on your Windows 7
machine, it’s time to install XP on it. Here we’re installing XP
Professional on the new
partition. Boot from the XP installation disk and start the install process.
When it comes to choosing a partition, make sure you select the one
you created using the steps above. In this example we made a 10GB
partition for the
XP install.
If the partition you created was already formatted as NTFS you can
leave it, or you can choose the FAT file system if you want.
Basically you continue through as if you were doing a clean install on
any hard drive.
Create Boot Loader
Once installation of XP is successful you can now go through and
install the latest Microsoft Updates and drivers. You will undoubtedly
notice that the
machine is booting directly into XP at this time. This is due to XP
writing it’s bootloader over Windows 7’s. To get both XP and Windows 7
as an option
at the boot screen you can use the free utility EasyBCD 1.72 or their
new 2.0 Beta.
VistaBootPRO will also work and is now called DualBootPRO and is no
longer free, it’s $9.95 for a single user license.
After getting the bootloader back you should see both XP and Windows 7
as options in the Windows Boot Manager.
EasyBCD 1.72
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