Dual booting and upgrading to Windows 7

[boyd4444]

currently I am running a dual boot system with Vista on one hard drive and XP on a seperate hard drive. Vista is managing the dual boot. I am not happy with Vista and would like to install Windows 7 instead. If I do this will Windows 7 see my XP installation on the other hard drive and automatically set it up to dual boot? I do not want to lose my Windows XP. Thanks for your help.

 

[kjv1611]

I believe it should.

Take a look at this reference:

http://lifehacker.com/5126781/how-to-dual-boot-windows-7-with-xp-or-vista

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[vacunita]

It Should pick it up, and assuming you overwrite the Vista installation, it should modify the boot menu to let you boot XP and 7.


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[linney]

Yes. I have a triple boot with XP, Vista, and the last one in was Windows 7, no problems were encountered in relation to the boot loader.

You can use this as a guide, you'll probably only need to concern yourself with pages 4 and 5 of the article as you have separate drives.

How to dual-boot Vista with XP (with XP installed first) - step-by-step guide with screenshots

http://apcmag.com/how_to_dualboot_vista_with_xp__stepbystep_guide_with_screenshots.htm

This is handy to know about too.

VistaBootPRO

http://www.vistabootpro.org/

Used EasyBCD

http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1

 

[firewolfrl]

This website has the best explanations and walkthroughs out of anything online.

http://www.multibooters.co.uk/index.html

I do follow this rule of thumb that has saved my bacon time after time:
One Operating system per hard drive

I use Bootit NG as my boot manager. I do not use any of the windows native boot managers at all. The nice thing about Bootit NG is if you pull the boot drive...the alternate drive that first in the BIOS will boot as normal

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-next-generation.htm

I also use virtual drives ...lol but that is another topic

anyways with a good third party boot manager you can pretty much run anything you want on the other drives and are not limited to windows or linux


Just to note, I find OS's sharing a drive there at times one gets a big olé headache

 

[boyd4444]

Thanks Everyone,

You all have been very helpful as always.With all these references I should have no problem.