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As I mentioned in my first post, I've HAPPILY (and easily) loved
installing and using EasyBCD on both Vista and Win-7.
But, today, I tried to install the latest (2.0.2, as I recall) onto
Windows-XP (which is mostly still what I have). The 2 laptops
are the Vista/Win-7 systems. But, all my desktop-boxes are still
Win-XP (already setup to dual-boot with various Linux distros).
What I'm now wanting to do is switch over from using Linux-supplied
boot-mgrs (i.e. 'grub' and 'grub2') to using EasyBCD, under Win-XP.
Is that gonna be do-able?
Because, during the 'install' on Win-XP, I immediately got some sort
of 'not found' thing, after it searched for some present boot-info.
At first, it appeared as though the install failed, but NOW I see that it
has woken up and is at least installed. (Maybe I'm just forgetting how
it behaved a few months ago, on Vista and Win-7???)
Am I good to go? If so, how do I proceed?
EDIT:What I'm thinking I need to do is (somehow) get Win-XP to overwrite the MBR with
some beginning entry for itself, and then I'll be able to (manually) add back in the
extra entries for my Linux partitions. So, how do I get Win-XP back into the MBR?
TIA...
Dave
installing and using EasyBCD on both Vista and Win-7.
But, today, I tried to install the latest (2.0.2, as I recall) onto
Windows-XP (which is mostly still what I have). The 2 laptops
are the Vista/Win-7 systems. But, all my desktop-boxes are still
Win-XP (already setup to dual-boot with various Linux distros).
What I'm now wanting to do is switch over from using Linux-supplied
boot-mgrs (i.e. 'grub' and 'grub2') to using EasyBCD, under Win-XP.
Is that gonna be do-able?
Because, during the 'install' on Win-XP, I immediately got some sort
of 'not found' thing, after it searched for some present boot-info.
At first, it appeared as though the install failed, but NOW I see that it
has woken up and is at least installed. (Maybe I'm just forgetting how
it behaved a few months ago, on Vista and Win-7???)
Am I good to go? If so, how do I proceed?
EDIT:What I'm thinking I need to do is (somehow) get Win-XP to overwrite the MBR with
some beginning entry for itself, and then I'll be able to (manually) add back in the
extra entries for my Linux partitions. So, how do I get Win-XP back into the MBR?
TIA...
Dave
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