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Originally Posted by Avinash
if you are comfortable playing with your Master boot record and wont have a heart attack when your system gives you just a black DOS screen, if you did something wrong and you can get it back to flashy windows screen without getting a heart attack, you can try it.
i told u right, that i don't want to play around. just asking for the best (read safest) way to have both W7 & XP on this laptop..
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the best way... u need to install XP first and then install Win7 on a different partition.
Another best way, use Windows XP in VMware player inside windows 7 and you can use both without doing anything with your partitions or master boot record.
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back 2 square one - How?
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As Jelson said, get a backup.
After you are done with backup, get a windows XP CD. boot your system with Windows CD and install windows XP on it. It will need a full format of your HDD. If you got just one partition, divide into two at-least. I normally go for 3 or 4 partitions.
Now install XP on C partition. After you are finished with XP, just install Windows 7 on any drive like D or E either by booting using your windows 7 DVD or by directly running the setup.exe from the DVD from inside Windows XP.
This is method one in the tutorial link I gave in my previous reply. Hope it doesnt bring you back to square one.
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I haven't read the article provided by avi but i have dual booted xp and win 7. You can safely try it. In my case i have installed xp first and then win 7. I guess its the preferred method.
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yes it is the preferred method but grr wanted it the other way.
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