Hi to All
In a nut shell the problem I've got is a lack of a boot menu to select from I'm not totally unfamiliar with boot managers as I've used Linux before but I'm still very green and I think I'm over my head with this one as the Linux ones seemed to set everything up automatically on installation however I would like to be able to win this battle so this is the situation
I'm trying to boot into either Windows 7 or XP the former being my active partition OS so installed EasyBCD v1.72 followed the wiki to the letter then when I pressed “Add Entry” I got an “Unhandled Exception” anyway rebooted but no boot menu selection it went straight into Windows 7 that was yesterday so today I went into XP via 7 and tried the precedure again this time no error message so I thought that's it great however on rebooting still no boot menu so I decided to download iReboot this is when it seems to get strange on right clicking on the icon there's the two OS so I clicked on XP it rebooted and went into XP.
So it seems that although the setting up went slightly off true I seem to have some sort of dual boot system so I can now test Windows 7 and still have access to XP without having to swap between image files but at the moment it still means I have to be in one of the OS before I can have a choice ideally I would like the menu to have the choice at the beginning.
Any help would be most appreciated and sorry for the long post.
Thanks
In a nut shell the problem I've got is a lack of a boot menu to select from I'm not totally unfamiliar with boot managers as I've used Linux before but I'm still very green and I think I'm over my head with this one as the Linux ones seemed to set everything up automatically on installation however I would like to be able to win this battle so this is the situation
I'm trying to boot into either Windows 7 or XP the former being my active partition OS so installed EasyBCD v1.72 followed the wiki to the letter then when I pressed “Add Entry” I got an “Unhandled Exception” anyway rebooted but no boot menu selection it went straight into Windows 7 that was yesterday so today I went into XP via 7 and tried the precedure again this time no error message so I thought that's it great however on rebooting still no boot menu so I decided to download iReboot this is when it seems to get strange on right clicking on the icon there's the two OS so I clicked on XP it rebooted and went into XP.
So it seems that although the setting up went slightly off true I seem to have some sort of dual boot system so I can now test Windows 7 and still have access to XP without having to swap between image files but at the moment it still means I have to be in one of the OS before I can have a choice ideally I would like the menu to have the choice at the beginning.
Any help would be most appreciated and sorry for the long post.
Thanks