Two installations of Windows.. one keeps booting by default

[sicsicsic]

I had to install Windows XP in addition to Windows 7 because of a software I would occasionally need to run that isn't Windows 7 friendly. In any event, now only Windows XP boots.

I chose to leave the file system intact when installing so it made a separate windows folder.

Windows 7 = Windows
Windows XP = WINDOWS0

attached is my current C:/ root and my current boot.ini if that helps:
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[img=http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/52/bootini.jpg]

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I tried bootcfg /add from Recovery Console, no go. Keeps telling me it couldn't scan and that I need to run check disk (which I also did with no results).

Should be a simple boot.ini edit, right?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Dahak]

Unfortunately there is 2 problems with that.

1) you cant install 2 versions of windows on the same partition

2) you cant use boot.ini to boot windows 7, you would have to install the win7 boot loader and add the xp boot option to it

 

[sonoma1993]

when you installed Windows XP over Windows 7, it killed the Windows 7 boot loader and installed the Windows XP Bootloader. When installing two different windows operating system, the older version has to be install first. In your case, it would be Windows XP follow by installing Windows 7 to a different partition. You should be able to pop in the Windows 7 disc and use it to rebuild the Windows 7 bootloader.

check out this tool called vistabootpro or dualbootpro or whatever it is called now. It'll allow you to edit the windows vista and windows 7 bootloader through a gui interface instead of a commandline interface

http://www.vistabootpro.org/

 

[sicsicsic]

Son of a.


Alright. Well now i know, lol.

Well thank you very much guys!