Dual boot Vista and Windows 7

[orion23]

Hi!

I just installed windows 7 on a separate HD and my mistake, left my Vista HD unplugged.

Now I don't have an option for choosing OS's @ boot. PC will boot whichever HD is set to boot first.

I have tried adding a line for Windows 7 using EasyBCD but I cannot get it to work.

Can someone help me here?

Thanks!

 

[ViRGE]

Plug both drives in, set the one you want to be your real boot drive. Then fire up the W7 installer disc and do a startup recovery. It should sort things out.

 

[Bozo Galora]

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2265999&enterthread=y

 

[orion23]

Thanks guys!

Works now..

However, I just plugged another HD which has a very old installation of XP (it works fine on its own), and it is now XP that won't work when added to the boot menu.

I used easyBCD and added an entry for Windows XP and copied the XP boot files to the Windows 7 partition.

When given the option to boot XP, I press enter and I get an error about hal.dll missing or corrupted. Played around with it for a while and got rid of that message, however, it now gives me a "bried" error with the Boot.ini file and it restarts right way!

Thanks again!