pagosajoe
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I have a new PC with Windows 7 pre-installed. My old PC died from a lightning strike, but I have the old SATA hard drive that has WinXP loaded on it. It's accessible under Win7, along with the other drives configured like this:
- Two SATA 500G drives
- A primary drive (C)
- A backup (non-RAID) E-drive.
- My OLD 80G drive that has two partitions:
- The former C-drive held the data/programs (now ID'd as F-drive)
- The former D-drive held the WinXP OS (now ID'd as G-drive)
NTLDR is located in the OLD drive now identified by Win7 as the F-drive partition.
I've used EasyBCD to add the old drive/WinXP OS and have the WinXP boot loader set to F-drive. When I start the PC, I have the choice of Windows 7 or WinXP, but when I select WinXP, the system hangs and won't let me proceed. I can only boot under Windows 7.
I've obviously made an error somewhere....thoughts/suggestions for a newbie dual-booter?
TIA
- Two SATA 500G drives
- A primary drive (C)
- A backup (non-RAID) E-drive.
- My OLD 80G drive that has two partitions:
- The former C-drive held the data/programs (now ID'd as F-drive)
- The former D-drive held the WinXP OS (now ID'd as G-drive)
NTLDR is located in the OLD drive now identified by Win7 as the F-drive partition.
I've used EasyBCD to add the old drive/WinXP OS and have the WinXP boot loader set to F-drive. When I start the PC, I have the choice of Windows 7 or WinXP, but when I select WinXP, the system hangs and won't let me proceed. I can only boot under Windows 7.
I've obviously made an error somewhere....thoughts/suggestions for a newbie dual-booter?
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TIA