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October 28, 2009 at 06:38 AM
hiprakhar

Dual boot windows XP and Windows 7. (Uncommon problem)

by hiprakhar . Updated 16 years, 8 months ago

Dear friends,

here it goes.
The problem: I had windows XP on drive F. and Windows Vista on Drive C. Then I installed Windows 7 on drive C. Now the system boots directly to 7, without bothering to show the dual boot menu.

Elaborated: I had a working instance of both Windows XP and Windows Vista on Drive F: and C: respectively. The dual boot menu worked perfect. No problems.
Then I decided to do a fresh install of Windows 7 over Vista, in drive C:
Before that I used VistaBootPRO (installed on XP) to create a replica of the BCD files.
Then I did a successful fresh install of Windows 7, in drive C:
Now I dont see the boot menu, rather the system boots directly to windows 7.

What do I do now? How to log back in to windows XP?

ps: I have the copy of all boot files lying in C: drive when Vista reigned there, and BCD file created by VistaBootPRO prior to Windows 7 installation.

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