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win 7 not booting after dual boot

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I have installed a win xp sp3 on a win 7 home basic system. i have not a win 7 cd but have the win 7 code installed on my PC . I have Dell 560s inspiron desktop. how can i reactivate my win 7 now with xp working.
Friday, January 14, 2011 2:53 PM
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"Amar Pal" wrote in message news:24db4307-9bfd-41d8-bcbe-23df3502c9a3...
I have installed a win xp sp3 on a win 7 home basic system. i have not a win 7 cd but have the win 7 code installed on my PC . I have Dell 560s inspiron desktop. how can i reactivate my win 7 now with xp working.
XP will have over-written the Win7 boot loader - you need a Win7 disk to be able to repair the boot sector, and re-written loader
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Noel Paton | Nil Carborundum Illegitemi | CrashFixPC | The Three-toed Sloth- Marked as answer by Darin Smith MS Friday, January 14, 2011 9:19 PM
Friday, January 14, 2011 3:02 PMModerator -
Use EasyBCD from http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 to reinstall the Windows 7 bootloader and create the boot menu.
EasyBCD can be installed in both XP and Windows 7 .
- Marked as answer by Darin Smith MS Friday, January 14, 2011 9:19 PM
Friday, January 14, 2011 3:36 PM
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"Amar Pal" wrote in message news:24db4307-9bfd-41d8-bcbe-23df3502c9a3...
I have installed a win xp sp3 on a win 7 home basic system. i have not a win 7 cd but have the win 7 code installed on my PC . I have Dell 560s inspiron desktop. how can i reactivate my win 7 now with xp working.
XP will have over-written the Win7 boot loader - you need a Win7 disk to be able to repair the boot sector, and re-written loader
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Noel Paton | Nil Carborundum Illegitemi | CrashFixPC | The Three-toed Sloth- Marked as answer by Darin Smith MS Friday, January 14, 2011 9:19 PM
Friday, January 14, 2011 3:02 PMModerator -
Since the question is off topic for this forum and since I have no experience with dual booting I can not tell which (or if both) posts have answered the question. I am therefore going to mark both Noel's and DominicP's posts as the Answer.
Darin MSFriday, January 14, 2011 9:19 PM -
Hi Everyone, I too faced the problem of dual boot. I installed windows7 OS then in one more partition i installed XP.. when i installed XP. Old version of windows file overwrite the win 7 booting file, so it went to XP directly without showing windows 7. then i Solved by the following procedure 1.Boot with a windows 7 dvd and click on repair option ,repair startup recovery and restart it. 2.when it restarted u can't see the xp in boot list 3.Go on to windows 7 4.Download EASYBCD from this site http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 5.install and configure the boot option 6.Create Windows xp name and specify the drive where it boots from . 7.then restart your problem is solved. 8.You can perform and setup any OS boot menu from windows 7 ,including mac and Linux OS.Sunday, February 13, 2011 7:42 AM
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Both of you dual booters also need to be aware that every time you boot into XP the XP VSS driver, volsnap.sys, is going to delete all Windows 7 VSS files. This means restore points, previous versions, backup and restore files, and anything else using shadow copies. This is not merely a nuisance. The solution is to hide Windows 7 from XP. For a solution see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926185/en-us
Note that XP does not need to be hidden from Win 7. The key is added to XP only.
Colin Barnhorst Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on DIY with 6GB ram.Sunday, February 13, 2011 12:38 PMAnswerer