Hi All,
I'm building a vintage PC to support some of my older lab equipment. Seems dual booting windows is easier said then done.
Hardware details:
Motherboard: Asus A7V8X (latest and greatest in 2002)
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2800+
RAM: 3GB(Max)
Disk Drives: Adaptec SCSI controller card 29160N Ultra 160
IBM 18GB SCSI drive
Maxtor Atlas 36GB SCSI
Current config:
I installed WinXP on drive D. Before installing Win7 WinXP reliably booted. Then I installed Win7 on Drive C. Win7 now boots and mounts Drive D(I can see the WinXP files).
Simply this, what's the path to get a boot loader on this PC? I didn't try Plop yet. Will it work with this application? Any help is greatly appreciated.
-Nate
Probably Plop is not required, you can add the WinXP startup item to the Win7 menu. You can do this using the program bootice.exe - select the BCD tab, then EasyMode, click Add, select "New Windows XP/2003 entry" and select disk D on the right side of the window, and finally click "Save current system". After reboot, the menu with WinXP should appear.
Thanks for the reply ruuser. What I ended up doing is partitioning one drive into two. I installed WInXP first on Drive D. Then when I installed Win7 on drive C the boot manager listed both Windows 7 and XP. When I installed windows 7 it found the older version of windows and setup the boot loader. It was almost to easy. When I had the two individual SCSI HDD's installed(using the Adaptec controller card) and I installed WinXP first then Windows 7, for some reason Windows 7 never found the older version of windows and therefor never set up the boot loader. I even tried EasyBCD and it couldn't ever find the other windows install. When I would go to add it the program would throw some error and crash. Maybe I'll give Bootice a try. Where can I find it? Thanks again.
-Nate
Program here - https://www.sites.google.com/site/gbrtools/home/software/bootice-portable/bootice-downloads
version 1.3.3.2 is working fine.
just be careful, this is a program with great features