Thanks to Greg Schultz’s advice (http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=1728&tag=nl.e064)my own custom Win 7 / Win XP Dual Boot Installation went without a hitch (almost).
What Greg failed to mention about this procedure was the fact that Windows 7 would hijack the entire drive even though WinXP was located on the separate primary partition while Win 7 was intentionally assigned to the unformatted space upon the secondary extended logical partition of the same drive!
I discovered this when I attempted to check out the results of the custom install using my old trusty copy of PowerQuest’s Partition Magic 8. Much to my dismay I saw that Partition Magic now listed that entire drive as being “BAD” even though my WinXP & Win 7 dual boot functionality seemed to be flawless.
Good thing I used another trusty old PowerQuest application “Drive Image” to create a back-up image of my original WinXP partition prior to executing the “Win 7 / WinXP Dual Boot Custom Install.”
I’m anxiously awaiting Greg’s next blog on “How to make Win 7 the Primary OS” on that now “hi-jacked” drive so I can delete the WinXP installation altogether on the primary partition of that drive…and re-install WinXP on a new secondary HDD.
