Dual Booting Windows 7 and Xp
With your shiny and stylish Windows 7 already installed, you are willing to have your trustworthy Windows XP alongside in a dual setup. You're come to the right place , because here we'll guide you on the procedure of dual booting XP and 7 with 7 pre installed non your PC/laptop. Man y would say that it isn't possible or it may give errors, but trust me it works. So here's how it goes:
Firstly, and most importantly we will need to shrink the hard drive where Windows 7 is installed, to free some space to use for XP. For this we will first need to create a new parttion. Open Start menu, right "Create and format" in the search box . Click on the "Create and format hard disk partitions" button that appears after your search.
If done so, you will be brought to a new window called "Disk Management". Make sure you know the letter of the drive where your Windows 7 is installed. Ok now go on and select the drive where your Windows 7 is installed. Let's suppose it is C. Now right click drive C, and click on shrink volume. Now a new window should pop up with the heading of "Shrink C:". Now keep in mind that for Windows Xp , about 10 GB of disk space is more than enough. So
where it says "Enter the amount of space to shring in MB", enter 10 000 and click on shrink. It might take a few seconds or minutes depending on the speed of your system.
Ok so we''re done with the shrinking part. The screen will now show a new box saying 10 GB of unallocated space alongside drive C. Right click the unallocated space and click on New Simple Volume. A new window should pop up which is a pretty simple one. Make sure that the file system is selected to NTFS and the allocation unit size to Default. Where it says "Volume Label", just name the label to something like "XP Space" so that it is easier for you to identify the partition when setting up XP. Click on next and after the formatting is done you will see your new volume as Healthy (Primary Partition). Well done! You're half way through! Just to check that you're going correct up to this point, open My Computer and see that the new volume that you created is available or not. If not, then don't worry read it all over again and follow each step carefully.
Restart your computer. Insert the XP installation disk into your CD/DVD drive and boot setup from it(just click any button when it says "Click to boot from disk..."). A blue screen should appear with three options. Just press enter. Now chose the partition that you
created. You should remember the volume label's name that we set earlier in this tutorial. After selecting your partition format the partition by selecting "Format using NTFS file system(quick)". Press Enter and the Windows installation will now begin.
Listen Guys! If you need a tutorial on the boot loader do let us know!
Firstly, and most importantly we will need to shrink the hard drive where Windows 7 is installed, to free some space to use for XP. For this we will first need to create a new parttion. Open Start menu, right "Create and format" in the search box . Click on the "Create and format hard disk partitions" button that appears after your search.
If done so, you will be brought to a new window called "Disk Management". Make sure you know the letter of the drive where your Windows 7 is installed. Ok now go on and select the drive where your Windows 7 is installed. Let's suppose it is C. Now right click drive C, and click on shrink volume. Now a new window should pop up with the heading of "Shrink C:". Now keep in mind that for Windows Xp , about 10 GB of disk space is more than enough. So
where it says "Enter the amount of space to shring in MB", enter 10 000 and click on shrink. It might take a few seconds or minutes depending on the speed of your system.
Ok so we''re done with the shrinking part. The screen will now show a new box saying 10 GB of unallocated space alongside drive C. Right click the unallocated space and click on New Simple Volume. A new window should pop up which is a pretty simple one. Make sure that the file system is selected to NTFS and the allocation unit size to Default. Where it says "Volume Label", just name the label to something like "XP Space" so that it is easier for you to identify the partition when setting up XP. Click on next and after the formatting is done you will see your new volume as Healthy (Primary Partition). Well done! You're half way through! Just to check that you're going correct up to this point, open My Computer and see that the new volume that you created is available or not. If not, then don't worry read it all over again and follow each step carefully.
Restart your computer. Insert the XP installation disk into your CD/DVD drive and boot setup from it(just click any button when it says "Click to boot from disk..."). A blue screen should appear with three options. Just press enter. Now chose the partition that you
created. You should remember the volume label's name that we set earlier in this tutorial. After selecting your partition format the partition by selecting "Format using NTFS file system(quick)". Press Enter and the Windows installation will now begin.
Listen Guys! If you need a tutorial on the boot loader do let us know!
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