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Unlike the successful quadruple boot seen with an existing Vista/XP dual boot when adding on both the 32bit and 64bit Windows 7 beta builds and later the RC builds back in 2009 the recent RP setup being a stand alone install as well as the recent 7 reinstall ran into some interesting problems!
The CP when first installed saw the previous 7 install with a new boot entry added into the 7 BCD for 8. The Automatic repair formerly Startup repair for 8 was then used to update the boot sector(100mb System Reserved partition) with the 8 BCD store replacing that created by the 7 installer.
The EasyBCD tool used for that was also installed on both the CP and then the RP to add an entry for 7 into 8's boot options. The second hard drive here was then set as the default boot drive. All went well for the first week or so when suddenly 8 kept freezing up solid! Even when just arriving at the desktop after clicking the new desktop button and 8 had finished loading up "Freeezzzzzee up!" and hard boot by the reset button!
So what was going on? At first 8 was to see the Refresh PC option used which saves in the Windows.old folder but still wipes programs installed unlike a repair install of Windows. That saw 7 added in automatically and when 7 was selected the system would see a full restart! What?
Within a day 7 started seeing freeze ups as well until one of those dreaded "BSODs"(Blue Screen Of Demise) struck and was analyzed by the BlueScreenView which read the memory dump showing "ntoskmi.exe" as the cause. That was after a good run of Check Disk got 7 running one day. That's a more common file corruption error going back to Windows 2000.
Once 7 was running well again the decision to switch drive modes in the bios setup from Native ide as it is named on the board to the AHCI mode. Once 7 restarted it was all set but 8 failed to get past the new lock screen. No biggie however for that while the dual boot with BCD entry for 7 being used resulted in drive errors on the 7! Normally those were not seen with the 7 host drive set as default for a normal boot.
The best move of course is to install the RP on either a VM or unplug a 7 or Vista drive for a clean install of the RP onto a second separate drive if you have one to isolate each version. Apparently the next and the previous don't seem to want to play together nicely!
The RP VM on the latest release of the Oracle VirtualBox and usb plugin however has so far been trouble free for the obvious reason of being a VM install. VM Player saw a running CP but won't see the RP VM on the other program it seems in order to take a look at 8.
If you are considering a dual boot setup just now be advised that these problems can come up on you as well. Simply seeing a clean but stand alone install of 8 is advised. On most systems you will find an F key at post time will bring up a boot device menu of options where you choose the drive to boot with for a one time boot. This will allow you to boot into 8 or other without running into disk errors at least.
The CP when first installed saw the previous 7 install with a new boot entry added into the 7 BCD for 8. The Automatic repair formerly Startup repair for 8 was then used to update the boot sector(100mb System Reserved partition) with the 8 BCD store replacing that created by the 7 installer.
The EasyBCD tool used for that was also installed on both the CP and then the RP to add an entry for 7 into 8's boot options. The second hard drive here was then set as the default boot drive. All went well for the first week or so when suddenly 8 kept freezing up solid! Even when just arriving at the desktop after clicking the new desktop button and 8 had finished loading up "Freeezzzzzee up!" and hard boot by the reset button!
So what was going on? At first 8 was to see the Refresh PC option used which saves in the Windows.old folder but still wipes programs installed unlike a repair install of Windows. That saw 7 added in automatically and when 7 was selected the system would see a full restart! What?
Within a day 7 started seeing freeze ups as well until one of those dreaded "BSODs"(Blue Screen Of Demise) struck and was analyzed by the BlueScreenView which read the memory dump showing "ntoskmi.exe" as the cause. That was after a good run of Check Disk got 7 running one day. That's a more common file corruption error going back to Windows 2000.
Once 7 was running well again the decision to switch drive modes in the bios setup from Native ide as it is named on the board to the AHCI mode. Once 7 restarted it was all set but 8 failed to get past the new lock screen. No biggie however for that while the dual boot with BCD entry for 7 being used resulted in drive errors on the 7! Normally those were not seen with the 7 host drive set as default for a normal boot.
The best move of course is to install the RP on either a VM or unplug a 7 or Vista drive for a clean install of the RP onto a second separate drive if you have one to isolate each version. Apparently the next and the previous don't seem to want to play together nicely!
The RP VM on the latest release of the Oracle VirtualBox and usb plugin however has so far been trouble free for the obvious reason of being a VM install. VM Player saw a running CP but won't see the RP VM on the other program it seems in order to take a look at 8.
If you are considering a dual boot setup just now be advised that these problems can come up on you as well. Simply seeing a clean but stand alone install of 8 is advised. On most systems you will find an F key at post time will bring up a boot device menu of options where you choose the drive to boot with for a one time boot. This will allow you to boot into 8 or other without running into disk errors at least.
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