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• Trying to dual boot xp and win 8. The two are already installed, but only win 8 boot option is available.

  I have xp and win 8 dev already installed. I want to dual boot, but 8 victory is the only option I get.  I guess I should have installed from xp with an ISO... reading program or something. Is it possible to get two startup options appear now? without uninstalling or OS?

  Download EasyBCD, scroll to the bottom to get the free version here http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1

  Go to add a new entry and in the upper pane, select the Type of Win NT/XP combo. Give it a descriptive name and that it points to the appropriate drive, and then click Add an entry. Now, you have a choice of systems when you turn on.

• can I pick up my dual boot after installing win xp on win 7. I lost my dual boot and my sytem starts with xp ony. I try to repair my system with win 7 dvd, but it only to get win 7.

  I have a system dual boot win - xp & win - 7. I reintall win - xp that disable my dual boot and I have win - xp.

  I'm trying to repair it with win 7 dvd but it only recover win - 7. can I pick up my dual boot? Help, please

  EasyBCD allows you to add the missing version of Windows in the start menu.

  EasyBCD (free for non-commercial use):
  http://NeoSmart.NET/DL.php?id=1
  http://NeoSmart.net/blog/2012/announcing-EasyBCD-2-2-Windows-8-dual-booting-and-more/

  J W Stuart: http://www.pagestart.com

• Dual boot MacBook running Win as host, not to run the Mac partition as a virtual machine?

  Sorry if this has been requested a lot of times before, it was difficult to try to sift through responses to this particular configuration through research.

  I have a MacBook which double - start by training camp.  I generally run Windows but do have occasional need to pop in Mac.

  Is there a way to get my Mac running as a virtual machine in Windows partition?  I've seen a lot of discussion of the scenario opposed using Mac and Fusion, but not found on my installation.

  Thanks in advance for any help, especially if it's the ten thousandth time it was requested.

  Within the limits of your question, it is not supported by VMware.  That means that the only product from VMware that supports the legal vitualization of legally virtualisables versions of Mac OS X is VMware Fusion when run under Mac OS X on a Mac to processor Intel.

  In addition, if it's not Mac OS X Server 10.5, 10.6. 10.7 or Client Mac OS X 10.7, so he is not allowed by the Apple ALS and cannot therefore be discussed in these forums without violating the terms of use of the VMware community.

• Strange problem with Windows Vista / & Dual Boot of Win 7, Vista is there, but is not...

  I have sucessfully partioned primary SATA drive in my old Dell XPS desktop computer for 1 year so I could dual-boot between Visat & Win 7, but that the process be re-sizing / partitioning, or installing Windows 7 posed problem with dual booting (MBR) which I was able to fix via the process of startup repair & recovery.

  Unfortunately, when I try to boot into Vista from the Boot Manager screen, I can get as far as the Welcome screen and then the screen turns white.  At some point, I think I saw an error message referring to a bad or Rundll file missing (I think it is)

  However, if the blank screen, I can do a Ctrl-alt-del and bring up the options menu to lock the computer, switch users, log, change password or start the Task Manager.  When I select the Task Manager, I see several Services & processes running.  It seems that Vista is running, but I can't do it...

  If I select log-off, I get the newspaper colorful off the screen.

  Any idea?

  Should I continue with the process of startup repair & recover?  I don't think the fix bootrec applies more, correct?   In addition, I unfortunately do not have the CD original Vista because it is a Dell system with all the stuff of recovery on the hard drive... (GRRRR!  ) which I think is a no recovery before I changed them were leaving...

  Thank you!

  Try this for Vista startup repair:

  Download the ISO on the link provided and make a record of repair time it starts.

  Go to your Bios/Setup, or the Boot Menu at startup and change the Boot order to make the DVD/CD drive 1st in the boot order, then reboot with the disk in the drive.

  At the startup/power on you should see at the bottom of the screen either F2 or DELETE, go to Setup/Bios or F12 for the Boot Menu.

  When you have changed that, insert the Bootable disk you did in the drive and reboot.

  http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial148.html

  Link above shows what the process looks like and a manual, it load the repair options.

  NeoSmart containing the content of the Windows Vista DVD 'Recovery Centre', as we refer to him. It cannot be used to install or reinstall Windows Vista, and is just a Windows PE interface to recovering your PC. Technically, we could re-create this installation with downloadable media media freely from Microsoft (namely the Microsoft WAIK, several gigabyte download); but it is pretty darn decent of Microsoft to present Windows users who might not be able to create such a thing on their own.

  Read all the info on the website on how to create and use it.

  http://NeoSmart.net/blog/2008/Windows-Vista-recovery-disc-download/

  ISO Burner: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/active-isoburner.html

  It's a very good Vista startup repair disk.

  You can do a system restart tool, system, etc it restore.

  It is NOT a disc of resettlement.

  And the 32-bit is what normally comes on a computer, unless 64-bit.

  See you soon.

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• How much better the partition of the HARD drive for dual boot: Windows 8 and Linux

  Hello

  I am a newbie in Windows 8, linux, Partition...

  I want to use my new laptop with windows 8 pre-installed on the following:

  Create a Dual Boot Windows 8 / Ubuntu
  Create on my drive C (single disk on my laptop):

  * a partition for the system
  * one for Windows 8
  * one for data and
  least for Ubuntu OS

  My goal is:

  -to install VmWare on Windows 8 and run Splat Checkpoint with virtual machines to make the FCTC laboratories.

  to install GNS3 on Ubuntu for CCNP Labs but with GNS3 to access the files in the data partition

  I have a Toshiba Satellite with 750 GB and 8 GB of RAM.

  According to you, what is the best size for my scores?
  Is there a better way to partition my C drive on my goal?

  Best regards

  I don't know if this is the right section, sorry for that. Feel free to move this thread in the appropriate section *.

  I think the size of partitions depends of the you want to use and install other software.
  So if you have a lot of software which runs under the Windows System I recommend to choose a larger size to win 8 partition.

  However, given that you have a 750 GB HARD drive, you could take 200GB for Win 8, 100 GB to Linux and the rest of the HARD drive size, that you can use for data.

  By the way: I found Nice YouTube video how to create a dual boot using 8 Win and Linux http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_Yd2jK-7Jg

  Welcome them

• FOUR installed at the factory DEFAULT to leave prevents the DUAL BOOT LINUX

  HP laptop: dv7-4173us

  Current hard disk partitions:

  Size (approximate) volume file system status

  (C primary NTFS Partition 444 GB)

  HP_TOOLS (F): 99 MB primary FAT32 Partition

  Recovery (D primary NTFS Partition 21,28 GB)

  Primary SYSTEM NTFS partition 199 MB

  I came across this link:

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/Windows_7-performance/Windows-7-disk-management-UTI...

  I want to install linux in dual boot, but the link above from Microsoft, said a MAXIMUM of

  4 PRIMARY partitions is allowed.

  Currently I already have FOUR primary partitions on my laptop HP as factory default PARTITION!

  What is the SYSTEM partition?

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/what-are-system-boot-partitions#1TC=Windows-7

  Excerpts:

  “.... The system partition contains the hardware and the startup folder indicating a computer where to look to start Windows. By default, Windows 7 creates a separate system partition when it is installed from scratch (as opposed to upgrading from a previous version of Windows) on an unpartitioned hard disk. This partition is 100 MB in size. “

  Looks like I need to remove one of the main partition above.

  And it also looks like my choices are:

  HP_TOOLS (F): 99 MB primary FAT32 Partition

  Recovery (D primary NTFS Partition 21,28 GB)

  What are the consequences of the removal of one of the scores of HP.

  I suspect the HP_TOOLS above (F and recovery (D are dependent on each other.))

  I understand, it's likely that I lose the ability to recover and have to reinstall windows directly from CD/DVD.

  But I have TO install Linux in DUAL BOOT.

  What choices do I have?

  Please advice.

  Thank you.

  hpng wrote:

  I finally got to work, including by using:

  https://help.Ubuntu.com/community/boot-repair

  Hoot Hoot!

  In install Ubuntu LTS 14.04, it allows to installtion of lights-out auto side by side.

  I noticed that the (NTFS, FAT32) file type is not displayed for the Ubuntu partition in the disk of wind 7 management.

  So, what is its file type?

  There are two Win 7 bootloader when the laptop starts.

  Here's the boot options for dual booting:

  Ubuntu

  Advanced options for Ubuntu

  The memory test.

  The memory test.

  Windows 7 (loader on dev/sda1)

  Windows 7 (loader on dev/sda2)

  First boot of Win 7.

  When I select the 2nd choice (last), I got error "Info: the boot selection has no b ' cos a required device is not accessible."

  Which partition is dev/sda2 corresponds to?

  How will I know?

  I also tried to delete the partition HP_TOOLS after successful install Ubuntu and dual boot,

  but WIn 7 has said it is currently in use, and force the deletion can cause problem.

  What should I do?

  Thanks for all the help.

  Linux uses a different label than Windows. Windows using C, D, E... drive, but linux uses sda1, sda2, sda3 (sda means the disc and 1,2,3, partition) labels for partitions. The sda2 partition is probably the 100 MB system. Linux also uses different file systems incompatible with NTFS/FAT32 for Windows file systems. The most common are EXT2/3/4 and also swap which is something like a pagefile (pagefile.sys) on Windows. You can delete the partition HP_TOOLS of linux, but if everything works and you do not need more partitions don't do that. There are stored diagnostic utilities. However, you can create a USB key with the same properties as HP_TOOLS partition:

  http://support.HP.com/us-en/document/c03801890

• Satellite C850 - 19(d) - I want to do a dual boot with Linux and Win 8

  Last week I had a Satellite C85O - PSCBWE-03200WGR 19(d)

  Yesterday, I try to make a dual boot with Ubuntu.

  I do not have a start to boot from USB, or iso CD (same choices as for the Toshiba application), and I did one on the bios:
  -Disable secure boot
  -Change UEFI CSM support
  -Save

  On reboot, I get not Toshiba logo, but a black screen with:

  «This product is covered by one or more of the following patents:...» (list of patents...)

  Realtek...

  PXE - E61: Media test faliure check cable
  PXE - MOF: Exit PXE ROM
  "No boot device - insert boot and press a key.

  I can't open the Bios again at F2.

  Which I recover the system?

  Hello

  The unit has been pre-installed with Win 8 64 bit right?

  Change BIOS setting of UEFI to CSM and disabling secure boot prevent Notepad to start 8 to win!

  That's why the device cannot find the boot device and passes to the last option: LAN.
  But given that the laptop can not find bootable system via LAN, the error PXE - E61: Media test faliure check cable appears.

  If you want to use a dual boot, you will need to boot into Win 8
  Win 8 you must create a partition for installing Linux. This can be down in Win 8 disk management. It must reduce a last partition and have to create new free space available.

  Now to start installing Linux you need support... you can burn the iso on DVD or a USB bootable Linux. There are a lot of details on the internet how to create these media.
  Once you have created the bootable USB key, restart your PC with USB connected.
  Press F12 for the boot menu. Now you should see the key USB (if it is bootable!) choose USB and you should be able to install Linux (Ubuntu is great!)

  Here's a nice page that would provide the statement all step by step!
  http://www.intowindows.com/dual-boot-Windows-8-and-Ubuntu/

• Dual Boot Win XP and Win 98 / Me

  I have an Equium A60-692, I want to dual boot it with the existing Win XP and Win 98 (pref) or Winme. I succumbed to the Win 98 or Win Me loading on the hard drive. Even during startup with a completely blank disc. (formatted). The installation fails at some point when I think it's either looking at PNP or pieces PCMCIA devices. Someone at - it win 98 on a laptop toshiba modern. What I missed. Someone help please!

  Hello

  The first important difference is that partitions are most recent an old FAT32 and NTFS HARD disk. Please check this page of http://www.ntfs.com/ for more information.

  Good bye

• Dual-boot a Satellite A660-18 - BSOD install Win XP

  I recently bought the laptop above for use on astro photography.
  A lot of the software I use is 32 bit and XP to use so I thought that I could set up a dual boot on the laptop using Win 7 64 bit OS (pre-installed) for processing in CS5 after that I captured the images using XP Pro 32 bits of the image.

  I use XP Pro 32 bit to control the astronomical mount follow-up and to capture images of the Canon DSLR as they won't work on a more recent OS and most certainly will not work on 64-bit and will not work in compatibility or any virtual box modes.

  I started by cutting the main 50 GB partition and creating a new 50 GB partition to install XP Pro on and then tried to install XP Pro from the CD on the new partition. The initial back based races common installation ok with loaded drivers from the CD, but until the installation either by selecting the partition to install XP Pro system stops with a BSOD and I can only turn off the laptop.

  I would be grateful pointers for getting this working to dual boot, I realize that some of the features of the laptop will probably be lost under XP Pro but I don't need of work for you USB ports connect to external equipment to control system astro and then I can reboot in win7 OS.

  Best regards
  KeV Lewis

  > Based initial backs racing common installation ok with the drivers loaded from the CD, but before the installation is by selecting the partition to install XP Pro system stops with a BSOD and I can only turn off the laptop.
  Please use the forum search option and search of SATA drivers and the installation of Win XP.
  There are a lot of discussions about this...

  The point is that new notebooks need driver SATA to reinstall the OS.
  Win 7 already includes new drivers SATA but Win XP doesn t.

  The SATA driver is part of the Intel Storage Manager you can download this from Intel page too.

  I used the program nLite to build a new Win XP CD that contains the SATA driver.

• T410: How Dual boot Win 7 with Ubuntu?

  I like to keep my config to origin win 7, but to add the option to dual boot into ubuntu 10.10 as my main OS. Anyone has any experience on how to do this?

  To be sure, I would create a set of recovery discs if you have not already,

• HP Envy 17, Win 8.1 and Win7 dual boot

  Please direct me to a good installation step by step of win7 on a preinstallation 8.1 Win...

  partition are ready 500G each, but the problem is my misundertanding of the MBR and UEFi, GPT partition.

  I won't an expanation of terms, but a way to boot and install WIN7 and Win8.1 in the dual-boot.

  Thank you. im not computer dumb.

  Mitch

  Your laptop of HP ENVY 17-j150ca is basically the same as my computer laptop HP ENVY 15 t-j100 CTO, only bigger. You will need to provide the Intel AHCI / RAID drivers during the first part of the installation. Please download "f6flpy-x 64.zip" of Intel Download Center. Expand this and place the file/folder on a USB key. Then;

  (1) DISABLE "Secure starting" and ACTIVATE the standby mode 'legacy' in the BIOS. Save and EXIT

  (2) enter code as it is necessary to recognise the change

  (3) reboot and press 'ESC' and then 'F9' when prompted. Select "UEFI - CD/DVD" or "UEFI - USB key... and boot from the DVD of Windows 7 SP1 or a USB key.
  4) click install now
  (5) to accept the license agreement
  (6) when the option to select an installation type, click (custom)

  (7) there will be a link called it loads drivers, insert the USB stick with the Intel AHCI / RAID drivers, select the USB and it should load the appropriate driver.

  (8) continue the installation by following all the guests... BE SURE TO SELECT THE PARTITION NOT USED FOR INSTALLATION

  Good luck

  Most of the Windows 7 drivers for the TouchSmart from HP ENVY 17 t-j100 CTO Notebook PC drivers of Quad Edition page should work on your computer.

  If you have any other questions, feel free to ask.

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• Dilemma of dual boot Win XP SP3 Pro and Windows 8 Pro

  At this time, April 2013, I expect to build a desktop system dual boot with Windows 8 Pro for the current and future capabilities and Win XP Pro for continued use of legacy aps favorite who will not run on Win8. It turns out that the disc formats are a problem. The Win8 64 bit needs a partition format GPT to install 32-bit XP or XP Pro needs a format MBR partition to install. No OS will share the same format and a main drive cannot be formatted and partitioned in a type of format or the other. What to do? !! Two computers are not an acceptable answer; I want a 'box '. In addition, not interested in XP Mode embeded in Win8 or 'virtual machine '. One suggestion has been to run the operating system on separate disks. For me, this means that 2 SSD is to get performance on the two operating systems. Also, to move from one OS to another, you must restart; catch the key bios entry; change the boot sequence; Save/quit; and reboot. (Awkward!). So what to do with the data and documents - one NAS file storage (for example, disk WD Live 'cloud')? There's good news to have? Are there recent usability solutions to help solve the dilemma of the dual boot? A boot manager will really help and there a good "gift" there Boot Manager? Thoughts, anyone?

  I have a custom system DIY mb Gigabyte Z77, processor i7-3770, running a fresh XP Pro SP3 Edition Builder.

  The drive letter is not critical since XP, Windows 8 will still start as C: (even if the partition is Z: in Windows XP).

  I pre-formatted Windows 8 partition before installing Windows 8 (named volume: Windows 8).

  Then, when you reach the screen "Where install" during the installation of 8, choose the partition of Windows 8.

  You can view other things is the BIOS, look for compatibility / legacy mode option.

  J W Stuart: http://www.pagestart.com

• Win 7 Pro 64 - win XP 32 Dual boot prob

  When I try to install Win XP to create a dual-boot, the system environment

  Load XP memory & then crashes with BSOD displaying the error code:

  Stop: 0x0000007b (0xF78D2524, 0xC0000034, 0.0)

  Summary

  Operating system

  MS Windows 7 64 bit SP1

  CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT

  Intel Core i7 3730 3,20 GHz

  Sandy Bridge-E/EP 32nm technology

  RAM

  15.9 GB of DDR3 memory @ 833 MHz (9-9-9-24)

  Motherboard

  ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. P9X79 PRO (LGA2011)

  Graphics

  DELL2407WFPHC (1920x1200@59Hz)

  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

  Hard drives

  488 GB ATA ST500DM002-1BD14 SCSI Disk Device (SATA)

  117GB ATA - OCZ VERTEX2 SCSI Disk Device (SATA)

  488 GB ST3500630AS SCSI Disk Device (SATA) ATA

  Optical drives

  HP DVD Writer 1260v SCSI CdRom Device

  Audio

  Realtek High Definition Audio

  This stop error 7 b means THAT XP needs SATA drivers during installation. Since the AHCI is enabled in the BIOS

  If you don't see that before installing XP, this means that the hard drive is not accessible (because you have no drivers SATA on the XP CD). XP Setup does not see the hard drive. So, it can not install XP

  (Probably) the only way you're going to get SATA in XP drivers, is if integrate you the SATA drivers with something like Nlite

  Or you could turn off the AHCI in the BIOS. Only prob here tho, since Win7 is installed, we need to be activated to support SATA.

  Another thing you could do is the XP installation mode, if its Win7 Pro.

  And typically you are installing the first OS (XP), then later (Win7). Not the other way around

  Also keep in mind XP will see 3.5 GB of ram. Since its 32 bit and only supports 3.25 to 3.5 GB of ram

• Dual boot Win 7 and Linux using factory restore DVD

  I have a HP Folio 13-2000, I like a lot

  However, I've been a user of linux (Ubuntu or Mint) for many years.

  I liked the installation of Win 7 64 bit, but he's been hogging my 128 GB SSD.

  To cut a long story short, I screwed up the dual boot installation, (first time!), but at least I have created a series of 3 restore DVD beforehand.

  So, I've been using Mint13 cinnamon and everything is dory hunk, but now I work at the Nepal and the only internet connection I have is a dongle USB CDMA of China Telecom, which works best with Windows.

  So, I installed a 40 GB for Win 7 partition alongside my Linux Mint 15 in a 15 GB partition and tried to do the minimum installation from the DVD, in the hope of having a chance to install in the 40 GB partition.

  I know how to get the boot of Linux back using Rescatux.

  But I could see that he had no other choice, and Win 7 was going to wipe the entire disk.

  Fortunately, I removed the external cable of DVD and has managed to reconstruct my Mint boot 13 again.

  I don't want to delete and reinstall my Linux Mint13 as it works very well and is perfectly up to date, and there are a lot of files in the host partition is.

  So, how can I do a restore factory, without this reformatting all partitions?

  Hi Slackbladder,

  I strongly recommend that you copy the recovery on an external disk partition before you try that. I'm not aware of what specifically happens when you try it. An interesting thing is that in the HP BIOS, there is no option to turn on or turn off EFI mode.  If the partition is big enough it can work.

  Best regards

  ERICO