![]() XP will not be aware of the other WIndows. If you set the XP target partition "active" before starting the install, it's possible to get XP into a partition alongside W7/8/10 without damaging the existing boot on the same HDD. You can use this behaviour to your advantage though, by judicious switching of the "active" flag before starting an install. (It's also why installing older after newer borks the dual-boot). It's the MS design architecture which enables newer Windows to dual-boot themselves automatically with older versions. Setup will always place the boot files in the "active" partition on the first HDD in the BIOS boot sequence. That will start the Installation, but it will fail at the first automatic reboot when the system will attempt to boot the incomplete new OS rather than continue the installation from the DVD. It's not sufficient to override the BIOS boot sequence using F8 if that's what you did. I admit that this is not the first time that I tried this stunt without success.Ĭlick to expand.When installing Windows, you need to make sure that the BIOS is set to boot from DVD before HDD. I can boot to either without any problem. When I restarted, there is the choice to boot to either Windows 7 or Windows XP. Now, I installed EasyBCD to Win 7 and added the Windows NT/2K/XP/2k3 entry but I neither added nor changed anything else in EasyBCD. I restarted the computer after removing the boot disk and Win 7 Pro came up exactly as it was three hours before. When Acronis came up on the screen, I turned on the external HD and restored Win 7 Pro to C. I reset the computer and booted from a optical drive with the Acronis boot disk. Acronis can make a bootable CD or DVD to use for restoration when a system cannot boot from its system HD. I have used Acronis as a backup for a number of years and it never failed me. I checked drive F: and sure enough Win XP was there but I made no attempt to open it. Then, I cleaned C: with Spotmau, made a new volume on C:, and formatted it to NTFS. Since only F: was empty, I used Spotmau Powersuite Golden to clone source C: to destination F. I have four hard drives, 3 with 500GB and 1 with 2TB. I did not install EasyBCD to Win XP as suggested. The installation went flawlessly and Win XP came up after the final reboot. Since I knew that I can restore Win 7 whenever I wish, I formatted HD C: and installed Win XP Pro 32x streamlined with SP!, SP2, and SP3. This seemed to indicate that the system would only tolerate an installation to C:\. At this point, the only action possible was either a hard Reset or Ctrl/Alt/Del. This failed when the installation tried to reboot and resulted in an error that stated, "Windows\Root\system32\ntoskrnl.exe is missing". I followed the instructions from the EasyBCD PDF manual for installing XP after Win 7. Then, with Win 7 Pro 64x installed, I attempted to install XP Pro on a HD separate from the system HD C. This a somewhat long post but possibly it might help someone with the situation that I had.įirstly, I saved my Win 7 installation as an image with Acronis 2016 to an external HD.
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