Thread: Can’t install windows 7 to Xp

I have to get back to my windows 7 and when I start my computer it gave me an option about select windows but the only thing that was there was Windows Xp Professional

Your problem can be easily understood since the XP installer changed the windows 7 boot entries in the master boot record. To see the 7 boot information rewritten all you do is just boot up with the 7 DVD itself and link found under the Install new button. That will first scan for the 7 installation and list that where you click the next button to enter the next screen.

One time in the repair tools screen see to the top of the list for the Startup Repair option. That will work in an immediate to repair the windows 7 boot information there. Once 7 is set you will then need to add XP as an option into the windows 7 BCD store in order to boot into XP once windows7 is start as a boot option.

The only problem using EasyBCD found with windows 7 is seeing the 7 boot splash screen changed with Vista since it was written for Vista formerly. A derivative of EasyBCD without that problem is called DualBootPRO found at Dual Boot PRO - Microsoft Windows Boot Editor - Windows BCDEdit Configuration being the updated for 7 version of VistaBootPRO.

What I do to put my windows 7 Cd in and I Boot from Cd in like the start up place!! My cousin tell me something about the entire repair thing, Either i couldn’t find that bit or i just missed it totally,
So i had fully fresh installation of Windows 7 on particular partition !! And now i really have the OS choice menu options of either window 7.

Knowing about drive partitioning and the Disk Management tool see drives and partitions is what needs to be explained. Any partition on a drive becomes a logical drive and assigned a drive letter by Windows. If you want make a fresh primary partition and format it like you did there for XP Windows 7 now see a new logical drive D and mount to make available for use.

Through performing a full preinstall of windows 7 on the original primary the Windows installer added XP into it's personal boot loader now being seen as last version of Windows. With a BCD editing tool you can even rename "previous version of Windows" to something like "Windows XP Pro"! You can also set which will be the default OS as well as how long the boot options menu will be displayed. Reducing the default 30 seconds down to something like 6-7 seconds will speed up the startup time too !http://zezula.net/en...bellavista.html

To use the right tool for the 32bit or 64bit version of widows 7 you are running there note the "Set as default" and "Startup menu will be displayed for" items shown in the screen on the download page for the tool there. For renaming "Previous version" to "Windows XP" or "XP Pro" here I often will see "Windows x – sata# “ x being the past Multifoods and the # being the sata drive the installation was on.

I jus clicked properties on the D: and On the top it didn’t have a name so jus renamed it to Windows XP =] !!And as for the thing you said about the making a default windows thing I know another way too but then I don’t know if this will work or not!!

Because, I’m not sure if it will still give me the boot options at startup or not because what if i need to use xp sometime... does that mean i will have to make XP my default OS?


And from the screenshot below how can i modify the thing to make startup quicker without change in operating system And by select a default OS does that mean i cannot use XP, if not then how will be able to use Xp?

Yet right there you can set XP as default or leave 7 the way it is as the default OS. Changing which edition is set as default won't check booting into the other. You just have to make to select the minor version in the number of seconds while the menu is being displayed prior to the one set as the default continues on and starts loading on you!

For renaming the entry for XP you need a BCD editing tool for that. The three separate items two programs one BCD tool stated before each have the option to rename the entry as well as set the default OS, change from one to the other, and set the display time for the boot options menu to a smaller amount of time.

I generally set that to about 4-5 seconds since I already know ahead of time which one I prepare to boot into. That's a habit from multibooting 3 or 4 Windows installations along with a Linux distort on top while testing the 7 beta builds. That keeps you busy.