XP+WIN7 dual system installation, backup, boot menu repair and a dual system, share the experience with you. 1, I am using a 500G hard drive, in order to install a dual system, plan to arrange this. C disk An XP, D disk An Win7, and only one primary partition C disk. Partitioning tool P/Q. NTFS format
C 30G XP
D 40G Win7
E 40G software
F 295G Entertainment (game, movie)
G 30G work data
H 30G backup this program, C drive is The main partition, in fact, 20G should be enough for XP, I am so big is mainly used to use a few G of C drive, now 500G hard drive is more than a whole point, oh, there are also convenient to install WIN7 in this area what. D disk 40G, WIN7 installed 10G, huge Kazakhstan, suitable for about 30G. Only one primary partition is divided for easy management. Some people have divided the two main partitions to install the dual system. In the system drive letter, you will see: the C drive in the XP system is the system drive letter. However, in the WIN7 system, there will be weirdness. At this time, install the C drive of XP. The drive letter for WIN7. This weird phenomenon is puzzled by many people. In fact, this is because there are two primary partitions, but only one primary partition is the active active partition, and the other primary partition is automatically hidden. Therefore, the system only recognizes the C drive as its active active primary partition, and whether he is his own family. The advantage of dividing a primary partition is that in the system, each is a system partition. XP is the C drive. WIN7 is the D drive, which is clear at a glance and does not interfere. 2, dual system software sharing problem. Some software XP, WIN7 can be shared, some software can not. Only the respective system can be reinstalled once. For example, Q//Q cannot be shared by two systems. Therefore, in the E disk is set to the software area, the green software is placed directly in this area to allow the dual system to share. Can not be shared can also be placed in this area, first in XP under a variety of software in the E disk, and then into the Win7 system, test whether the software can be used, can not be used to re-install in the E disk, the path can be directly in the E Create a new file area under the disk: E:/Windows7 for easy management.
3, some Ghost version system will automatically put my documents, favorites in the D drive, and our Win7 installed in the D drive, in order not to confuse. I can move XP's My Documents and Favorites to the E drive.
4, you can also move the virtual disk area of the C drive XP, the page folder is also moved to the E drive. Second, the installation method of the dual system.
My plan is: XP C drive + Win7 D drive, a primary partition. At the same time, dual systems must adhere to one principle: the first low version, in the high version, the normal dual system boot menu. If the order is reversed, the first version is high, in the low version, once installed, it will go wrong, there is no dual system boot menu, directly into a system.
A lot of installation methods, I am like this, the new hard disk installation, first install XP in the C drive, available XP install version, also available GHOSTXP version. I use the Ghost version, install it quickly. Then enter the XP system, use the virtual drive to load the WIN7ISO installation image. Download it from the Internet or extract it from the CD beforehand or under XP. Click on the virtual drive to install Win7 directly. When you choose which partition to install, select D partition.
My method is: C XP GHOST version + Win7 installation version. Many people ask, can the two systems be installed with the GHOST version of the system, the GHOST version is simple, save trouble. However, the GHOST version of the system is automatically installed when the first item is "install the system in the first partition. At this time, it is recommended to use the manual version of Ghost to install Win7, optional installation partition. Third, dual system backup. BR> Dual system is a separate partition, independent system. However, after installing the high version system, it will also give some information to the C drive. Therefore, when backing up the dual system, be sure to remember that both systems are After installing, back up together. Many people use one-click restore to do backup, one-click restore can only back up C drive, dual system can not back up other partition system. At this time, we only use manual version of Ghost to manually backup Also. Under the Win7 system, the system has provided a backup tool. You can back up files, or you can do a system disk image, but the capacity is very large.
A backup software under WINDOSE can also be used. , Ghost kernel. Rainforest wood wind out ONEKEY restore. Very good use, use this software to backup C, D disk. Fourth, dual system boot menu repair. 1, dual system, if you use a key to restore the system After the disk is restored, the dual system boot menu is destroyed, the dual system cannot be started, and the D drive Win7 cannot be entered.
2, the version is reversed during installation. The high version of Win7 of Xianan is in the low Version of XP. There will be no dual system boot menu.
3, my personal experience. After the double system, I found that my C drive XP is FAT32 format, I will convert it to NTFS format, restart After, the dual system boot menu is gone, can only enter a system XP, can not enter WIN7. Do not want to reinstall Win7, find a lot of methods to repair on the Internet, some people say modify BOOT, INI, according to do or not Finally, find a good tool: professional repair dual system boot menu tool, fool-like operation, just double-click the mouse, the dual system boot menu will come back. The tool name is: BCDautofix. Dual system friends collection, useful at that time of