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After a long while I am back with a new post on dual boot loading with Windows 7 and Windows XP. Yesterday night my friend and me decided to play Need For Speed most wanted on LAN. I had a bad experience in gaming in Windows 7 environment. So I was needed to install XP on my system. Priory I was having Windows 7. I just did a newly partition for installing Xp on my system and got over with installation.

But I felt hammered and shocked as I was unable to see  boot loading option for Windows 7  because I had many works done in it.

Well, that time I was in a mood to play game and then look upon this problem.  After playing I googled many ways to reach the remedial post and found none efficient.  In breaks in found some informations and finally I experimented and had both OS in my boot loading option.

This is the way I did. :-

1) Had Windows 7 previosly installed.

2) Installed Windows XP on a new partition.

3) Restarted the system and only XP was booting.

4) Inserted Windows 7 dvd.

a) Choosed Installion language.

b) Moved to second screen with option “GOTO REPAIR COMPUTER”

c)Choosed Command Prompt and entered following commands.

bootrec/FixBoot (Press Enter and Restart)

d) Now you are on your lost Windows 7.

But folks, you have now loosed Windows XP. Dont be panic. You can recover that too with following continuing steps.

5) Download .NET FRAMEWORK 2.0 and EASYBSD .Framework is required to run EASYBSD.

6) Install and run EASYBSD.

NOTE:- This is required to repair the Windows XP boot file and add Windows 7 to the Windows Boot Manager list.

7) In EasyBCD, click on Add/Remove Entries (left side). (See screenshot below)

In the bottom right section under Add an Entry,

type: Windows NT/2k/XP/2k3.

Name: Windows XP

NOTE: You can type whatever name you would like to have displayed in the Windows Boot Manager for XP though.

9) Complete step 8 and click save.

Screenshot after saving.

10) In EasyBCD, click on Manage Bootloader (left side). (See screenshot below)

Note:- Let the option be on “Reinstall the Vista Bootloader” and Click on Write MBR and restart your system.

If every step is did in a fine way. you will be able to see Windows Boot Manager with both XP and 7 without a trouble.

Enjoy the post.