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Waly
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 Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 6:00 pm Post subject: Question about dualbooting XP and W7. |
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| Hey. I have a duallboot of windows XP and windows 7. I had XP installed first, and I then made a new partition and put Windows 7 on it. Everything is working fine, except for the fact that now my XP partition needs reformatting. If I reformat my XP partition now, will I still be able to boot into windows 7? Like, would I still have a choice after booting of Earlier version of windows(XP) and Windows 7? |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 6:04 pm Post subject: Re: Question about dualbooting XP and W7. |
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| 1337™ wrote: | | Hey. I have a duallboot of windows XP and windows 7. I had XP installed first, and I then made a new partition and put Windows 7 on it. Everything is working fine, except for the fact that now my XP partition needs reformatting. If I reformat my XP partition now, will I still be able to boot into windows 7? Like, would I still have a choice after booting of Earlier version of windows(XP) and Windows 7? |
It'll overwrite the MBR and boot straight to XP if you reinstall XP.
I don't know why your XP partition needs to be reformatting, though. 
What happened?
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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| You should be able to go into recovery mode from the Windows 7 DVD or setup. EasyBCD is a great tool (can be used on XP too, with .NET 2.0 installed). |
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Waly
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Blank wrote: | It'll overwrite the MBR and boot straight to XP if you reinstall XP.
I don't know why your XP partition needs to be reformatting, though. Confused
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Shouldn't you know? Remember? The virus?
| Karakawe wrote: | | You should be able to go into recovery mode from the Windows 7 DVD or setup. EasyBCD is a great tool (can be used on XP too, with .NET 2.0 installed). |
Thanks. I'll try it after I reformat.
Should I have any problems, I'll be on my other computer.[/quote] |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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| 1337™ wrote: | | Blank wrote: | It'll overwrite the MBR and boot straight to XP if you reinstall XP.
I don't know why your XP partition needs to be reformatting, though. Confused
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Shouldn't you know? Remember? The virus?
| Karakawe wrote: | | You should be able to go into recovery mode from the Windows 7 DVD or setup. EasyBCD is a great tool (can be used on XP too, with .NET 2.0 installed). |
Thanks. I'll try it after I reformat.
Should I have any problems, I'll be on my other computer. |
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Oh yeah. So you could never get rid of hit, huh. Documentation on that piece of malware was poor. Also, yeah. EasyBCD is a great tool.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Blank wrote: | | 1337™ wrote: | | Blank wrote: | It'll overwrite the MBR and boot straight to XP if you reinstall XP.
I don't know why your XP partition needs to be reformatting, though. Confused
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Shouldn't you know? Remember? The virus?
| Karakawe wrote: | | You should be able to go into recovery mode from the Windows 7 DVD or setup. EasyBCD is a great tool (can be used on XP too, with .NET 2.0 installed). |
Thanks. I'll try it after I reformat.
Should I have any problems, I'll be on my other computer. |
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Oh yeah. So you could never get rid of hit, huh. Documentation on that piece of malware was poor. Also, yeah. EasyBCD is a great tool.[/quote]
Hah, I thought you were talking about EasyBCD. 
You're getting warns left and right, crap. |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Karakawe wrote: | | Blank wrote: | | 1337™ wrote: | | Blank wrote: | It'll overwrite the MBR and boot straight to XP if you reinstall XP.
I don't know why your XP partition needs to be reformatting, though. Confused
What happened?
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Shouldn't you know? Remember? The virus?
| Karakawe wrote: | | You should be able to go into recovery mode from the Windows 7 DVD or setup. EasyBCD is a great tool (can be used on XP too, with .NET 2.0 installed). |
Thanks. I'll try it after I reformat.
Should I have any problems, I'll be on my other computer. |
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Oh yeah. So you could never get rid of hit, huh. Documentation on that piece of malware was poor. Also, yeah. EasyBCD is a great tool.
Hah, I thought you were talking about EasyBCD.
You're getting warns left and right, crap. |
Yeah. Flaming and such.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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Okay, I just finished the re-installation of XP, and I'm on XP right now. I'll go install EasyBCD now.
Also, you guys confuse me...who's getting warns left and right for flaming? :S |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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| 1337™ wrote: | Okay, I just finished the re-installation of XP, and I'm on XP right now. I'll go install EasyBCD now.
Also, you guys confuse me...who's getting warns left and right for flaming? :S |
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Waly
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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Wewt, moar problemz.
EasyBCD doesnt work for me...at all. Is iReboot any good? |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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| You need to have .NET Framework 2.0 installed to run/install EasyBCD. |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, I have .Net framework 2.0. I added the entry for windows XP, and rebooted, and nothing happened.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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If you have your HDD partioned and you reformat one, it shouldn't be any problem that would affect the partioned part. I didn't have any problems when I partioned my drive and then reformatted the one with windows on it.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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| xVi wrote: | | If you have your HDD partioned and you reformat one, it shouldn't be any problem that would affect the partioned part. I didn't have any problems when I partioned my drive and then reformatted the one with windows on it. |
The problem here is, when I reformatted and reinstalled XP, I no longer get a screen asking me what version of windows to boot to; it boots straight to XP. |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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| 1337™ wrote: | | xVi wrote: | | If you have your HDD partioned and you reformat one, it shouldn't be any problem that would affect the partioned part. I didn't have any problems when I partioned my drive and then reformatted the one with windows on it. |
The problem here is, when I reformatted and reinstalled XP, I no longer get a screen asking me what version of windows to boot to; it boots straight to XP. |
Oh.. I've never dual bootted before so I wouldn't know..
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