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]

Windows 7 Enterprise either as a Trial or not is a VL version and as such different
from other Win 7 versions.

What Frank posted to you as the answer is not valid. W7 Enterprise does not
recognize another OS when installed as second or on another partition.Most probably
you need to assign the order of install on the secondary drive or partition which
you are missing. Also the VL version needs Administrator rights which is not
available in the Trial version

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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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