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Can’t get a dual boot to work.

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Using TI 10 I’m trying for an XP and Win7 dual boot HD to work to no avail. 1st I took a drive and partitioned the 1st 100g into 2 partitions, #1 and #2, each aprox 50G. I then took a new image of XP and put it into partition #2 where it booted and worked fine. Next was Win7 TI turn and installed it into partition #1. Before trying it I installed Win7 install disk and it indicated it made a repair, at which time I restarted and WASN’T given the choice of any startup OS, it just went straight to Win7, which also works fine.
Should this work as a dual boot setup and how many hoops are necessary to jump through? I’m not a geek so don’t understand MBRs’ etc. Please KISS so your grandparents can understand the solution as I’m probably older than that AND THICK. TIA

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Hello VISCH1,

No worries, I will help you to resolve the situation with dual boot.

The scheme you mentioned won't work, since when you're recovering XP image on partition 1, it restores all boot configuration of this system to your HDD. The system boots fine. When you're restoring your Windows 7 to partition 2, our product rewrites boot configuration and MBR for Windows 7. As the result - you will get bootable Windows 7, but not the dual boot, because the information about dual boot must be added to boot.ini and your MBR should be configured specially for this. That's why repair does not help - it just rewrites the information for one system installed, but not for dual boot.

Let me explain how to create dual boot in this situation. First of all, you should restore your XP to some HDD (and make sure that it's bootable) with Acronis True Image Home 2010, all other steps are not depended on our program actually, so after that please just follow the instructions in this guide, this guide is clear enough, so I hope that you will be able to complete the task successfully. Anyway, please feel free to ask me if you have any questions, I would be glad to assist you.

Best regards,