dual boot w7/xp

[Maurizio]

hello:
I need both w7 and xp, I used easyBCD to do that, I installed W7 on C:\,
and win xp on D:\.
Everything is fine, except that if I hibernate from xp, it didn't works,
I have a normal long start.
is there any trick to resolve that? or is there any other method than
easyBCD?

any help is appreciated
thanks

 

[Wolf K]

hello:
I need both w7 and xp, I used easyBCD to do that, I installed W7 on C:\,
and win xp on D:\.
Everything is fine, except that if I hibernate from xp, it didn't works,
I have a normal long start.
is there any trick to resolve that? or is there any other method than
easyBCD?

any help is appreciated
thanks

A) XP is notorious for not waking up easily from hibernation, in fact,
I stopped hibernating it almost as soon as I got it (several years ago).
Shut down and new start is faster. I'm not sure how easyBCD would affect
this, but my guess is it would make things worse.

B) I installed a 2nd HDD, and installed W7 on that. No problems. Didn't
use BCD, easy or otherwise (tried it for dual-booting XP and Linux a
couple years ago, was annoyed at its weaknesses, will never use it
again). During boot, I can choose XP if I want.

Why the 2nd HDD? Because it was cheap, and then a 3rd HDD + W7 combo
deal was too good to refuse. the 3rd HDD is for backup.

 

[BillW50]

A) XP is notorious for not waking up easily from hibernation, in fact, I
stopped hibernating it almost as soon as I got it (several years ago).
Shut down and new start is faster. I'm not sure how easyBCD would affect
this, but my guess is it would make things worse.

If your XP doesn't wake up from hibernation, it isn't XP. As XP works
perfectly. Something like a driver (some video drivers causes this a
lot) or a third party application is causing the problem. I have over a
dozen XP computers here and they all work 100% reliably with hibernation.

 

[Wolf K]

On 11/20/2011 1:24 PM, Wolf K wrote: [...]

A) XP is notorious for not waking up easily from hibernation, in fact, I
stopped hibernating it almost as soon as I got it (several years ago).
Shut down and new start is faster. I'm not sure how easyBCD would affect
this, but my guess is it would make things worse.

If your XP doesn't wake up from hibernation, it isn't XP. As XP works
perfectly. Something like a driver (some video drivers causes this a
lot) or a third party application is causing the problem. I have over a
dozen XP computers here and they all work 100% reliably with hibernation.

Thanks for the tip, but since I use XP only because there is no Win7
driver for my ancient laser printer, it will remain an interesting
speculation. Um, mebbe I should've said "...was notorious", since before
SP1 or SP2 there were some complaints about it as I recall.



Wolf K.

 

[Maurizio]

A) XP is notorious for not waking up easily from hibernation, in fact, I
stopped hibernating it almost as soon as I got it (several years ago).
Shut down and new start is faster. I'm not sure how easyBCD would affect
this, but my guess is it would make things worse.

B) I installed a 2nd HDD, and installed W7 on that. No problems. Didn't
use BCD, easy or otherwise (tried it for dual-booting XP and Linux a
couple years ago, was annoyed at its weaknesses, will never use it
again). During boot, I can choose XP if I want.

Why the 2nd HDD? Because it was cheap, and then a 3rd HDD + W7 combo
deal was too good to refuse. the 3rd HDD is for backup.

In fact after resuming, it begins OK (resuming from xp) but then I got
the blue death screen saying that the bios seems to be non ACPI
compliant, and I have to disable this feature (by pressing F7 during
installing drivers for storage devices, but now I'm not installing
drivers for such devices).

 

[Tony]

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A) XP is notorious for not waking up easily from hibernation, in fact,
I stopped hibernating it almost as soon as I got it (several years ago).
Shut down and new start is faster. I'm not sure how easyBCD would affect
this, but my guess is it would make things worse.

B) I installed a 2nd HDD, and installed W7 on that. No problems. Didn't
use BCD, easy or otherwise (tried it for dual-booting XP and Linux a
couple years ago, was annoyed at its weaknesses, will never use it
again). During boot, I can choose XP if I want.

Why the 2nd HDD? Because it was cheap, and then a 3rd HDD + W7 combo
deal was too good to refuse. the 3rd HDD is for backup.

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