Installing win7 in a new partition after win98 and winxp

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christaras

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Hi there. Hope you're doing fine. I attach images and I'm seeking for your precious help so that I make the correct steps.
The bootloader exists in primary partition c: where win98 are installed. D: is logical partition with WinXp professional. And I want to install win7 in e which was unallocated space. I show the contents of boot.ini on c.
Please help! Thank you!
 

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Warne7 said:
Boot into Win7 setup from a USB/DVD, install on E, manage bootloader using bootrec commands in Win7's recovery console post-installation.
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Thanks for the reply. I did the installation from USB and it didn't finish. When I chose Win7 on the boot menu I got the message winload.exe missing.
Then I messed up with easybcd and destroyed all entries and lost access to win98 and xp which were under the menu "earlier versions of windows" . Hopefully I regained access to win98 and xp without formatting.
I'm now back to boot.ini and the bootloader of winxp, everything works OK but no win7.

Do you know the reason for the problem?
Should I leave the unallocated space unpartitioned so that win7 setup makes the partition? Could it be that e partition was inactive? But my c partition is active. Can I have 2 active partitions?

Of course winload existed in system 32 of e and was not missing.

The win7 repair tools could only detect win7 installation. I just formatted e and then delete it. It's now just unallocated space
 
Did you read this
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Microsoft DOS

Requirements DOS/Windows 9x/ME needs to be installed to a primary partition on the first hard drive on your PC. DOS, Windows 95a, and Windows 95b must be installed to a FAT12 or FAT16 partition. Wi…
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Terry60 said:
Did you read this
neosmart.net

Microsoft DOS

Requirements DOS/Windows 9x/ME needs to be installed to a primary partition on the first hard drive on your PC. DOS, Windows 95a, and Windows 95b must be installed to a FAT12 or FAT16 partition. Wi…
neosmart.net
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Yes win98 are on primary partition c:
Win7 bootmgr seems a dump program. It can not replace ntldr correctly.

Winload.exe is on the win7 partition. Yet the clever bootmgr states winload doesn't exist and it also destroys the great ntdlr boot manager.

Shall I make the win7 partition active for installation to continue?

I suspect
 
W7 needs to be in control of the boot.
You add entries to the BCD for the XP and W98 systems as detailed here.
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Adding Entries

All operations regarding the addition of new entries to the EasyBCD menu and the BCD store can be performed from the “Add New Entry” page of EasyBCD (as selected from the “EasyBCD…
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EasyBCD will take care of the chaining for you.
 
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