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Dual boot Windows 8 and Windows XP... impossible?

chaman59 Posted messages 114 Status Member -  
 Anonymous user -
Hello,

uh, look, I have Windows 8 installed, and, wanting to get a dual boot with Windows XP (well yeah...), I partitioned my disk, created a second partition, and installed Windows XP on it...

Everything worked fine, except that my computer boots straight into XP.

I think I should have done the opposite, right? I’ve already created this kind of dual boot before, and this time I went too fast...

Do you think there is a way to recover the situation? To boot my computer into Windows 8? impossible to get into the BIOS right now... Or should I force myself to redo everything?

Thanks

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    adilou.2010 Posted messages 25 Status Member 6
     
    If you are on XP, right-click My Computer and choose Properties
    Then go to the Advanced tab => in the startup and recovery section choose Settings. In Default operating system look for the option you want, (Normally you should find Win XP, Win 8 and another option that lets you choose at PC startup.)

    Best regards.
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    1. Anonymous user
       
      Oh wow... launching a W8 from ntldr which has been abandoned since Vista, that must be quite something.
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  2. Anonymous user
     
    Hi,

    Since your XP is starting, give an overview of the hard drive with the XP Disk Management tool (Right-click My Computer, Manage, Disk Management).

    Take a screenshot and post it on cjoint.com.
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  3. silerys Posted messages 124 Status Member 7
     
    Hello,

    It seems to me that for the DUAL boot SEVEN+XP you had to install XP then seven in order to recover Seven's bootloader and then configure it to do the Seven+XP dual boot.

    You can try via the W8 CD to recover its Bootloader (it should boot into W8 afterwards); once there, you can either use bcdedit in the command line or the EasyBCD tool to configure the DUALBOOT with XP if it hasn't already been corrected by the repair.
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    1. Anonymous user
       
      If it was installed alongside W8, XP has in principle simply rewritten the MBR, but did not touch the bootloader, nor, a fortiori, the BCD... it has no reason to do so. Moreover, it has activated the partition on which it resides, since it needs an active partition to boot. Therefore, you should: 1. Check the partitions to see if everything is present (and if the disk is indeed in MBR, which is not certain at all, given that mixed mode is possible). 2. Re-write the MBR for W8. 3. Activate the boot partition (the bootloader) so that W8 restarts by itself. 4. Configure BCD with EasyBCD to boot both systems.
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  4. Danub
     
    Good evening, if you made a system image, reset your PC to zero.
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