{"id":191,"date":"2013-08-21T05:43:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T10:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/kb\/?page_id=191"},"modified":"2013-09-06T10:08:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T15:08:35","slug":"installing-first","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/easybcd\/dual-boot\/windows-xp\/installing-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Dual-booting an existing Windows XP installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This page deals with setting up a dual-boot between an existing XP installation and a new installation of Windows Vista\/7\/8 or with Windows XP and a newer OS already on separate disks or partitions.<\/p>\n<p>By default, installing Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8 after Windows XP will result in an automatic dual-boot, as the newer versions of Windows will automatically detect and configure the dual-boot.<\/p>\n<p>However, you may want to use EasyBCD to perform one or more of these post-install configurations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rename the Windows XP entry from &#8220;Legacy Windows Entries&#8221; to &#8220;Windows XP&#8221; (or whatever name suits your desire),<\/li>\n<li>Change the timeout from the default of 30 seconds to a more reasonable 5 to 10 seconds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have more than one Windows XP copy installed on different partitions prior to attempting a dual-boot with Windows Vista\/7\/8, you&#8217;ll find that the boot menu selection will take part in two stages &#8211; you&#8217;ll first be prompted to select between the newer Windows install or &#8220;Legacy Versions of Microsoft Windows&#8221;, and upon selecting the latter you&#8217;ll be presented with a second menu asking you which copy of Windows XP you&#8217;d like to boot into. EasyBCD alone can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/easybcd\/dual-boot\/windows-xp\/\">merge these into a single menu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page deals with setting up a dual-boot between an existing XP installation and a new installation of Windows Vista\/7\/8 or with Windows XP and a newer OS already on separate disks or partitions. By default, installing Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8 after Windows XP will result in an automatic dual-boot, as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":505,"featured_media":0,"parent":183,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-191","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3SlTq-35","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/505"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1298,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/191\/revisions\/1298"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}