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Dual boot after the fact

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Alpha

Flightless Bird
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
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Peter Foldes

Flightless Bird
Windows 7 Enterprise ? Contact the contact number that can answer the VL version
that was supplied with your purchase

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"Alpha" <alpha@do.not.respond> wrote in message
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> 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
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Alpha

Flightless Bird
"Peter Foldes" <maci252211@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Windows 7 Enterprise ? Contact the contact number that can answer the VL
> version that was supplied with your purchase
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> 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
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> "Alpha" <alpha@do.not.respond> wrote in message
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>> 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
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Frank

Flightless Bird
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
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You have no idea what the OP is talking about do you.
Oops!
 
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Frank

Flightless Bird
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.
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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
 
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Alpha

Flightless Bird
My response at bottom:
"Frank" <fb@esd.clm> wrote in message news:4c264122$1@news.x-privat.org...
> 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
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> 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:
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> http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1
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> Then after you've restored the XP image, boot to 7 and open EasyBCD and
> put XP into the boot manager.
> HTH


Thanks for the helpful response.
That makes sense and I think I can handle the task.
Will do so in a day or so. Will post back!
Regards.
:)
Alpha
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Peter Foldes

Flightless Bird
Frank

Huh? EasyBCD on the Enterprise version? I do not think so. Keep to what you do best
,and that is to show off your clown act

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"Frank" <fb@esd.clm> wrote in message news:4c264122$1@news.x-privat.org...
> 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
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> 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:
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> http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1
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> Then after you've restored the XP image, boot to 7 and open EasyBCD and put XP
> into the boot manager.
> HTH
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Jim

Flightless Bird
On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 06:24:18 -0700, "Alpha" <alpha@do.not.respond>
wrote:

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>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.
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Virtual hard drive ? One OS inside the original OS .
 
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Trimble Bracegirdle

Flightless Bird
Alpha: IMO you need to be vary careful or it could end up in a number
of possible messes.
Win XP & Win 7 use the Boot up part of the Disc in significantly different
ways.

One good solution is to copy that XP install to one Hard Disc entirely
separate from Win 7 . You could Forget about Dual Boot Managers.
Then to boot one or the other by going into the BIOS setup at start up &
selecting which of the two HD's is the Boot Disc.
(\__/)
(='.':]
(")_(") mouse
 
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Alpha

Flightless Bird
"Trimble Bracegirdle" <no-spam@never.spam> wrote in message
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> Alpha: IMO you need to be vary careful or it could end up in a number
> of possible messes.
> Win XP & Win 7 use the Boot up part of the Disc in significantly different
> ways.
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> One good solution is to copy that XP install to one Hard Disc entirely
> separate from Win 7 . You could Forget about Dual Boot Managers.
> Then to boot one or the other by going into the BIOS setup at start up &
> selecting which of the two HD's is the Boot Disc.
> (\__/)
> (='.':]
> (")_(") mouse

We are coming to the same conclusion after the experimentation this morning
and yesterday evening!
Actually we might just restore XP to a reduced partition on the system drive
and do a fresh install of Windows 7 Enterprise on the other partition.
Then the Win 7 boot manager should automatically configure the right
multi-boot situation.
Which we here should have done in the first place!
Regards and thanks again.
:)
Alpha
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