Dual Booting?
- Thread starter TheForgot
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google it, I used google to do it, it's fairly easy to do dual booting and there's people charging 50£ to do it for you! lol
There's a prog called EasyBCD which does it all for you (aslong as you follow instructions on the guides from googling.
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I think its this one.
http://www.techspot.com/guides/143-dual-boot-windows7/
There's a prog called EasyBCD which does it all for you (aslong as you follow instructions on the guides from googling.
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I think its this one.
http://www.techspot.com/guides/143-dual-boot-windows7/
sed all guides, but i'm getting errors. I've tried for hrs as I said lol- just seems my laptop is awkard as. I got a HP, upgraded the BIOS...yet can't seem to change my SATA setting to IDE
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Get some partition managing software shrink ur current partition, create a new partition with the space, boot and install os as normal but selecting the partition you created, then when you reboot you will be able to choose which OS you want to boot. Its simple really mate.
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Sigh, no offence to anyone. But you must read what I say. I'm fully aware how to dual boot, but i'm getting BSOD's and errors. I've partitioned of my w7 but when I boot xp, it loads etc, but has missing drivers...so I get a BSOD- I streamlined the drivers in using nlite, but still get BSOD. HP doesn't offer support but says it can be done, so wondering if anyone was a pro at computers, and had any clue of what's going on.
Yeah, I did streamline all the drivers for my laptop. Read so many guides, but the error still appears. I need be able to turn my SATA drivers to IDE, but my upgraded BIOS doesn't have the option?
There should be an option in your BIOS (something along the lines of AHCI/ATA), without knowing what BIOS it is you won't get an answer very quickly.
Have you checked the jumpers on your harddrives? (if your using multiple hard drives Master/Slave)
Have you checked the jumpers on your harddrives? (if your using multiple hard drives Master/Slave)
First xp won't dual boot correctly against 7 if 7 was installed first.
Also why do you need to change from the SATA to IDE, if they are SATA drives what would be the point in this. As for Nlite, you need to make sure you have the correct drivers for the HP machine for XP. You have to build up Nlite correctly with the correct set of drivers, I had this problem when I took Vista off a HP laptop and couldn't install XP due to the SATA drivers, though found the correct ones in the end.
Also why do you need to change from the SATA to IDE, if they are SATA drives what would be the point in this. As for Nlite, you need to make sure you have the correct drivers for the HP machine for XP. You have to build up Nlite correctly with the correct set of drivers, I had this problem when I took Vista off a HP laptop and couldn't install XP due to the SATA drivers, though found the correct ones in the end.
Funny I never had a problem dual booting with Windows 7 installed first, with EasyBCD they recover the bootloader which is what Vista and Windows 7 use.
See here:
http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Recovering+the+Vista+Bootloader+with+EasyBCD
Are you a plank or what, you can't dual boot from vista or 7 without having to recover the boot loader first. As it's the boot loader that tells it what to boot, so if vista or 7 is the main OS then it boots from that first and ignores the XP version and doesn't give you the choice to dual boot. You fix the boot loader and hay presto you can dual boot from XP into Vista or 7, you still have to use fancy software to repair the boot loader, were as if you partition the HDD and install XP on one section and then Vista/7 on the other, you now have dual boot without having to use any fancy bit of software to do it for you.
It's called Old Skool
Yes well some people may not know that I was merly giving an alternative.
EasyBCD has with it a bootloading option when you start your computer, obviously the person needs to partition the harddrive if there's only 1 HDD installed.
So yes indeed I'm the one who's a plank...