Dual boot after the fact
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From: Alpha on 26 Jun 2010 09:24 Installed Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit successfully on one machine. We still have the original Windows XP Pro SP3 Acronis image stored on a second hard drive on that PC. (It has two hard drives - one is for the OS, the other for data plus the page file). We know we can create a new system drive active partition by resizing the current Windows 7 one, and restore the Windows XP image to it. Will that make it a dual-boot PC by itself? Or, what else has to be done? Like modifying their boot files, for instance. And how? We wish to avoid a solution that avoids reinstalling either OS. We did not envision a dual-boot scenario earlier. Regards and TIA. Alpha --------
From: Peter Foldes on 26 Jun 2010 09:38 Windows 7 Enterprise ? Contact the contact number that can answer the VL version that was supplied with your purchase -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. http://www.microsoft.com/protect "Alpha" <alpha(a)do.not.respond> wrote in message news:i04v28$ohd$1(a)speranza.aioe.org... > > Installed Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit successfully on one machine. > We still have the original Windows XP Pro SP3 Acronis image stored on a > second hard drive on that PC. (It has two hard drives - one is for the OS, > the other for data plus the page file). > We know we can create a new system drive active partition by resizing the > current Windows 7 one, and restore the Windows XP image to it. > Will that make it a dual-boot PC by itself? > Or, what else has to be done? Like modifying their boot files, for instance. > And how? > We wish to avoid a solution that avoids reinstalling either OS. > We did not envision a dual-boot scenario earlier. > Regards and TIA. > Alpha > -------- > > > > > > > > > > > > >
From: Alpha on 26 Jun 2010 12:21 "Peter Foldes" <maci252211(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:i04vtm$pov$1(a)speranza.aioe.org... > Windows 7 Enterprise ? Contact the contact number that can answer the VL > version that was supplied with your purchase > > -- > Peter Was not purchased. Downloaded from Microsoft under the 90-day trial offer. There is no contact number supplied with it though. ALAFAICS :-) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/cc442495.aspx?ITPID=bieb Thanks and regards. Alpha -------- > Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others > Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. > http://www.microsoft.com/protect > > "Alpha" <alpha(a)do.not.respond> wrote in message > news:i04v28$ohd$1(a)speranza.aioe.org... >> >> Installed Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit successfully on one machine. >> We still have the original Windows XP Pro SP3 Acronis image stored on a >> second hard drive on that PC. (It has two hard drives - one is for the >> OS, >> the other for data plus the page file). >> We know we can create a new system drive active partition by resizing the >> current Windows 7 one, and restore the Windows XP image to it. >> Will that make it a dual-boot PC by itself? >> Or, what else has to be done? Like modifying their boot files, for >> instance. >> And how? >> We wish to avoid a solution that avoids reinstalling either OS. >> We did not envision a dual-boot scenario earlier. >> Regards and TIA. >> Alpha >> -------- >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >
From: Frank on 26 Jun 2010 13:58 On 6/26/2010 6:38 AM, Peter Foldes wrote: > Windows 7 Enterprise ? Contact the contact number that can answer the VL > version that was supplied with your purchase > You have no idea what the OP is talking about do you. Oops!
From: Frank on 26 Jun 2010 14:04
On 6/26/2010 6:24 AM, Alpha wrote: > Installed Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit successfully on one machine. > We still have the original Windows XP Pro SP3 Acronis image stored on a > second hard drive on that PC. (It has two hard drives - one is for the OS, > the other for data plus the page file). > We know we can create a new system drive active partition by resizing the > current Windows 7 one, and restore the Windows XP image to it. > Will that make it a dual-boot PC by itself? > Or, what else has to be done? Like modifying their boot files, for instance. > And how? > We wish to avoid a solution that avoids reinstalling either OS. > We did not envision a dual-boot scenario earlier. > Regards and TIA. > Alpha > -------- > > > > > > > > > > > > > You can restore the XP image to the partition but before doing that I suggest you dl & install EasyBCD, a Windows 7 boot manager, on Windows 7: http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 Then after you've restored the XP image, boot to 7 and open EasyBCD and put XP into the boot manager. HTH |