Win7 and XP dual system installed in the C drive method graphic tutorial

Windows xp 3 and Windows 7 dual system installed on the C drive at the same time: (You can also install XP and vista and 2003 or 2008 system, provided that : Must be all installed version, GHOST version is invalid)

Installation: Deep XP SP3 V6.20 Perfect Lite. ISO (because it is perfect, so the system does not bring any drivers and other plug-ins, remember to install before installation Backup good driver) 230MB

Install Windows 7 version: Windows7 Beta Chinese installation version - HOT (other installation versions are also available, please do not clone version) 1.5GB

First put the above two systems Download the other drive letter in the C drive: such as D or F drive to create two folders with Winrar extract.

Both systems are relatively stable.

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If you have an XP system installed on your C drive, you will not be able to install other systems, because no matter which system has three folders, it is exactly the same: Windows/Program Files/Documents

After installing other systems, the original three folders will be overwritten on the C drive, and the system will not work properly.

The most critical step: change the installation path of the XP installation disk.

Here is the depth of XP SP3 V6.20 perfect version. ISO example, teach you to modify. The Windows 7 system does not need to modify the file.

1, modify the WINNT.SIF file

Deep XP SP3 After decompression, find the WINNT.SIF file in the I386 folder (if it is difficult to find, copy WINNT.SIF to my Computer search: WINNT.SIF) Right click on “Open”, select “select program from the list",

Click on “Notepad> in the list of programs, remember to always “ Use the selected program to open this file & rdquo; the previous tick is removed.

Find [Unattended] in the file and change the following TartagPath=“Windows” to TargetPath="\\WinXP\\Windows"

and add under it: CommonProgramFilesDir=" \\WinXP\\Program Files"\\common Files"

Please see the following figure

2: Modify HIVESFT.INF file

Deep XP SP3 After decompressing, in the I386 folder Find the HIVESFT.INF file and open it with Notepad. Find DEFAULT_PROFILES_DIR="%SystemDrire%Documents and Settings"

Modify it to DEFAULT_PROFILES_DIR="%SystemDrive%\\WinXP\\Documents and Settings" Save.

This file has more content, it is not easy to find, you can copy “DEFAULT_PROFILES_DIR=”, then press “Ctrl+F”, paste in "Find content”, click“ find the next one ” Just found it.

If there is no relevant content in the above two files, please add the line in the corresponding location by referring to the screenshot.

As shown below: The second picture

3: Enter the PE format C drive under the current system (Please remember to back up the XP drive and C drive important information before the format ), if you do not have PE installed, you can go to Baidu search and install.

After modification, you can re-package the modified CD-ROM file into ISO format with a virtual CD-ROM. Or use Winiso to open the installation disk and directly modify the saved as an ISO CD.

The following is the installation steps: first install XP after installing Windows 7

1: Unzip WinXP installation disk (master skip)

Decompress WinXP installation disk with WinRAR, put In the English name folder under the root directory of any drive letter outside the C drive, for example: D:\\WinXP or F:\\WinXP.

2: Install WinXP

Enter the PE system and format the C drive and find the D:\\WinXP folder under xp decompression

Click Setup.exe, the system will automatically install Special reminder: When installing the restart process, you must remember to install the xp C disk at the same time with NTFS formatted. When installing, there is a prompt, select “ use C disk in ntfs format

default to "ld"; keep the original system Change & rdquo;. Because you want to install Windows 7, and Windows 7 must be in ntfs format.

If you really forget, then select “Command Prompt in the attachment under the Start menu; enter: convert c:\\fs:ntfs, follow the prompts, type y, restart.

3: Install Windows 7 with virtual drive under XP (two installation methods)

(1) After WinXP is installed, install virtual drive (Daemon Tools3.47 is best used, and After the installation, you don't need to restart the system. No classmates will download it. Students who don't use it will go to Baidu. This is not detailed here.

(2) After Windows 7 Beta decompress, click Setup.exe and the system will be installed automatically.

(3) Load the Windows 7 installation disk with a virtual CD-ROM under XP, open the virtual CD-ROM drive letter, click Setup.exe to install.

Follow the prompts step by step, regardless of his Warning, what the previous system can't use, what kind of old, and so on, will ignore it and continue the installation. The installation process is automatic, it will be restarted several times, these are ignored, and finally the installation is completed.

4: Find the boot.ini file of the C drive (Important: Otherwise, you can't enter the xp system)

After the Windows 7 installation is complete, go to the C drive and click on the menu bar "Organization" - Folders and Search Options”-“View”, hide “ hide protected operating system text (Recommended) & rdquo; The front hook is removed, ignore the system warning.

Also select "Show all files and folders" below, then <;Apply”-“OK”.

At this time, there will be a file Boot.ini.saved in the root directory of the C drive. Just like the method of modifying the file above, open it with Notepad.

Put the above [boot loader] The heap is deleted, and then saved as Boot.ini after the operation is completed, according to the previous steps to hide the system files.

will not open the hidden file modified or unwilling to modify the following to create a new Notepad file, then Save as boot.ini in the C drive:

Copy the code
code as follows: [boot loader]</p><p> timeout=5< /p><p> default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\\WINDOWS</p><p> [operating systems]</p><p> multi( 0) disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\\WINXP\\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT

As shown below: Three figures

At this point you're done! Try to restart the machine in the startup options you can choose XP or Windows 7 launched, dual system installation was successful.

The backup system can be installed under Windows 7 system: vista one restore (both systems are backed up)