Hi all,
I've been reading until my eyes are bleeding trying to figure out how to dual boot XP and Win7 on separate drives and I'm still lost.
WhoWhatWhenWhereWhy:
On HDD (0) I have Win XP Pro with 3 partitions (C:\, D:\, E:\) and I have a CD-RW (F:\) and a DVD-RW (G:\).
On my second\Slave HDD(1) I have the same setup and I use it as a "break me" drive for trying new things and doing dumb stuff (hey, at least I'm honest about it )
I wanted to try Win7, so I found an extra 40GB HD, made 2 partitions, unplugged my Main HD(0) (and the Slave drive so there was just one HDD hooked up) and made the 40GB as Master with the intention of making it as a slave so I could boot to it to test Win7. I installed Win7 with no problems whatsoever. I labeled the first partition as (Win7)C: and the second partition as (Win7)D:.
After playing with it, I unplugged the 40GB, set the jumper to Slave and rebooted into XP.
I went to boot to Win7 on the second HDD, but when I selected HDD(1), all I got was a gray bar along the bottom of the screen. (by the by, both HDDs show in the BIOS and Disk Management and healthy)
It seems to me it should be an easy matter of amending the XP boot.ini to boot to the Win7 drive. However I haven't been able to find anything that applies to my setup, nor without major brain damage.
My first option on the boot screen is:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP etc., etc.)
My second option on the boot screen is:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP[2] etc., etc.)
How do I amend the boot.ini to give me the option to boot to Win7?
I've been reading until my eyes are bleeding trying to figure out how to dual boot XP and Win7 on separate drives and I'm still lost.
WhoWhatWhenWhereWhy:
On HDD (0) I have Win XP Pro with 3 partitions (C:\, D:\, E:\) and I have a CD-RW (F:\) and a DVD-RW (G:\).
On my second\Slave HDD(1) I have the same setup and I use it as a "break me" drive for trying new things and doing dumb stuff (hey, at least I'm honest about it )
I wanted to try Win7, so I found an extra 40GB HD, made 2 partitions, unplugged my Main HD(0) (and the Slave drive so there was just one HDD hooked up) and made the 40GB as Master with the intention of making it as a slave so I could boot to it to test Win7. I installed Win7 with no problems whatsoever. I labeled the first partition as (Win7)C: and the second partition as (Win7)D:.
After playing with it, I unplugged the 40GB, set the jumper to Slave and rebooted into XP.
I went to boot to Win7 on the second HDD, but when I selected HDD(1), all I got was a gray bar along the bottom of the screen. (by the by, both HDDs show in the BIOS and Disk Management and healthy)
It seems to me it should be an easy matter of amending the XP boot.ini to boot to the Win7 drive. However I haven't been able to find anything that applies to my setup, nor without major brain damage.
My first option on the boot screen is:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP etc., etc.)
My second option on the boot screen is:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP[2] etc., etc.)
How do I amend the boot.ini to give me the option to boot to Win7?