Dual boot after the fact

[Alpha]

Installed Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit successfully on one machine.
We still have the original Windows XP Pro SP3 Acronis image stored on a
second hard drive on that PC. (It has two hard drives - one is for the OS,
the other for data plus the page file).
We know we can create a new system drive active partition by resizing the
current Windows 7 one, and restore the Windows XP image to it.
Will that make it a dual-boot PC by itself?
Or, what else has to be done? Like modifying their boot files, for instance.
And how?
We wish to avoid a solution that avoids reinstalling either OS.
We did not envision a dual-boot scenario earlier.
Regards and TIA.
Alpha
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[Peter Foldes]

Windows 7 Enterprise ? Contact the contact number that can answer the VL version
that was supplied with your purchase

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[Alpha]

Windows 7 Enterprise ? Contact the contact number that can answer the VL
version that was supplied with your purchase

Was not purchased. Downloaded from Microsoft under the 90-day trial offer.
There is no contact number supplied with it though.
ALAFAICS

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/cc442495.aspx?ITPID=bieb

Thanks and regards.
Alpha

 

[Alpha]

My response at bottom:

You can restore the XP image to the partition but before doing that I
suggest you dl & install EasyBCD, a Windows 7 boot manager, on Windows 7:

http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1

Then after you've restored the XP image, boot to 7 and open EasyBCD and
put XP into the boot manager.
HTH

Thanks for the helpful response.
That makes sense and I think I can handle the task.
Will do so in a day or so. Will post back!
Regards.

Alpha
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[Peter Foldes]

Frank

Huh? EasyBCD on the Enterprise version? I do not think so. Keep to what you do best
,and that is to show off your clown act

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[Jim]

Installed Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit successfully on one machine.
We still have the original Windows XP Pro SP3 Acronis image stored on a
second hard drive on that PC. (It has two hard drives - one is for the OS,
the other for data plus the page file).
We know we can create a new system drive active partition by resizing the
current Windows 7 one, and restore the Windows XP image to it.
Will that make it a dual-boot PC by itself?
Or, what else has to be done? Like modifying their boot files, for instance.
And how?
We wish to avoid a solution that avoids reinstalling either OS.
We did not envision a dual-boot scenario earlier.
Regards and TIA.
Alpha

Virtual hard drive ? One OS inside the original OS .

 

[Trimble Bracegirdle]

Alpha: IMO you need to be vary careful or it could end up in a number
of possible messes.
Win XP & Win 7 use the Boot up part of the Disc in significantly different
ways.

One good solution is to copy that XP install to one Hard Disc entirely
separate from Win 7 . You could Forget about Dual Boot Managers.
Then to boot one or the other by going into the BIOS setup at start up &
selecting which of the two HD's is the Boot Disc.
(\__/)
(='.'=)
(")_(") mouse

 

[Alpha]

Alpha: IMO you need to be vary careful or it could end up in a number
of possible messes.
Win XP & Win 7 use the Boot up part of the Disc in significantly different
ways.

One good solution is to copy that XP install to one Hard Disc entirely
separate from Win 7 . You could Forget about Dual Boot Managers.
Then to boot one or the other by going into the BIOS setup at start up &
selecting which of the two HD's is the Boot Disc.
(\__/)
(='.'=)
(")_(") mouse

We are coming to the same conclusion after the experimentation this morning
and yesterday evening!
Actually we might just restore XP to a reduced partition on the system drive
and do a fresh install of Windows 7 Enterprise on the other partition.
Then the Win 7 boot manager should automatically configure the right
multi-boot situation.
Which we here should have done in the first place!
Regards and thanks again.

Alpha
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