Windows XP and Windows 7 dual system installation and boot menu repair

This article describes how to install Windows XP and Windows 7 dual system and boot menu problems commonly used repair methods, Tianyuan recommended installation is best from the low version to the high version, and this article has assumed that your hard disk is The normal drive installation and order of use, and the recommended solution to the dual boot problems that may be encountered, of course, these solutions are not unique.

First, install Windows XP (C drive) after installing Windows 7 (D drive) step instructions

1, first install Windows XP to C drive, C drive partition FAT32 or NTFS Yes, the general recommendation is NTFS, because the following we installed WINDOWS 7 in the D drive must be NTFS, so in order to unify all the NTFS format is good, Windows XP specific installation steps will not say, if you do not understand Friends welcome message.

2, start to install Windows 7, first boot into Windows XP, use the Windows 7 installation CD or use the virtual drive to load the windows 7 CD image, click setup.exe, select “ now install & rdquo;, below FIG:

nEXT, Windows 7 accepts the installation license agreement, as shown below:

next, select the type of installation of custom installation Windows 7, do the two systems to a new installation, shown below:

Next, whether acquired install the update, in order to install the update after OK once myself, so I chose & ldquo; do not get the latest installation updates & rdquo; a, as shown below:

Next, choose to install the drive, please note that the D drive is formatted in advance (if your D drive is originally a FAT32 partition and there must be a backup of the data, the installation of WIN7 must be formatted into NTFS partition, To prevent loss of data), you can still manually format the D drive in this location (method: press the Windows logo on the keyboard to pop up the start menu — — turn on the computer Drive control interface, right mouse button can be formatted), Tianyuan special reminder attention, the operation interface is as shown below (Note: If you start the installation under DOS, there will be advanced options to operate the drive, WINDOWS XP Installation does not have this advanced option, you can only handle the drive externally).

Next, start the installation Windows 7 (shown below), there will be three intermediate restart.

again to restart at the last moment, following settings are required content (click the dividing line represents the next step):

language settings please Select Chinese —— computer name is set to your machine name (pinyin or English) —— password set administrator password —— key (unset the automatic activation item in the diagram, do not enter Key, enter the system and then say) —— set Windows (use recommended settings) —— set date and time directly next —— network settings (generally select work network) —— complete setting OK.

These setup steps are simple, just like installing a separate Windows 7 step. See also: Windows 7 installation and use of the tutorial article, this article is DOS boot installation, the latter part can be used for reference.

3, Windows 7 installation will automatically modify the system boot menu for the Windows boot manager control and join the boot menu, for the early Windows operating system is displayed as "early version of Windows". The dual system installation is completed [Tianyuan measured OK].

Second, install Windows 7 (C drive) after installing Windows XP (D drive) step instructions

This installation order from the Tianyuan measured results will indeed lead to the loss of the boot menu (covered by Windows XP installer), can not boot into the first installation of Windows 7, need to repair the boot menu under Windows XP, it is recommended to use the boot menu repair software EasyBCD, please refer to the EasyBCD tutorial below.

Third, uninstall one of the operating system and boot menu repair

After installing Windows XP and Windows 7 dual system, if you do not want Windows 7 or Windows XP , can be handled by the following methods.

1. Uninstall Windows 7 in dual system

If Windows 7 is on the D drive, please backup the useful information under Windows XP, then you can directly delete the D drive. Delete all Windows 7 files. At this time, the computer will still have the Windows Boot Manager and Windows 7 options, and then the boot menu will be repaired under XP. The method is as follows:

A. For friends who don't have the XP boot CD, Tianyuan recommends Delete or change the name of BOOTMGR directly under Windows XP, then copy one of ntldr, rename it to BOOTMGR to spoof the booting system, and then delete the Boot folder of the C drive (Tianyuan blog is OK, the speed is also the most fast).

B. If you have the original XP boot CD, please pay attention to the repair option (R). Many OEM and GHOST versions, especially VOLs on the Internet, do not support repair installation. There is no such option, can not enter the repair XP boot mode. If you have the XP installation disk boot CD, press the R button, and then enter 1 (XP installation drive letter serial number, C drive is 1, D is 2...) and the administrator password (if the password is empty, directly enter You can, by executing the fixboot and fixmbr commands in C:\\windows>, and then exiting to exit the XP boot menu.

C, you can use the repair tool to fix, such as EasyBoot, please refer to the tutorial below.

If Windows 7 is on the system disk C, it seems better to reinstall it. Because the drive of the system after Windows 7 uninstall is extremely confusing and error-prone, you should not fix it.

2, remove the Windows XP in the dual system

If Windows XP is on the D drive, you only need to back up the useful files of the D drive, then delete the D drive, then we Then remove the boot item in Windows 7 <; an earlier version of Windows". It can be repaired using the tool software EasyBCD or BCDautofix.

3, use or install the dual system boot menu problems? How to do

A, can not enter the boot interface

If the previous dual boot menu OK, then sure Some startup files are missing or modified. You only need to use the Windows 7 boot repair function to fix them (start Windows 7 and press F8 to enter the repair mode). If you can't enter the menu manager interface, you can't find it. When BOOTMGR is missing, copy it to another machine and put it under the system disk.