Detailed graphics and text tutorials for installing Ghost XP dual system under Win7

Today there is nothing to talk about the installation of dual systems, that is, the installation of XP and win 7 dual systems, here need to explain the XP system under the installation of the Win 7 system is very easy, just a custom installation, select a disk other than C ...

You should know that the current system installation disk is divided into two types: the original (Installation version) and Ghost version, now the mainstream are ghost version, why? Because he installs very fast, this is the original system can not match, and inside also integrates the common drive and the commonly used software, very convenient. But the ghost version has a disadvantage, which is reflected in the installation of a dual system, it can only be installed on the C disk (primary partition, activity), and we set the active partition can only set an active partition, can not set two, and the primary partition can only set up to three, which in the later preinstalled genuine Win7 under the difficulties, Since many preinstalled genuine Win7 have three primary partitions, a boot partition, seemingly 100 MB, a restore partition, a few g, a win7 system partition. Here's a question: How to install a ghost system under a Windows system that is already installed.

Here I will demonstrate the installation of a ghost Windows XP system under PE under the existing Win7 system with the manufactured USB disk. Installation of the core idea is: the previous Win7 disk first to hide, create another system partition, let the Ghost installer mistakenly think this is a C disk, installed XP and then use the software to repair the dual-system boot.

Here are a few tools to use:

1, has made a good U disk system, here it is recommended to use the Morning Maple U disk System, the specific method of making their own reference to help file. The official website has how to make U disk System. I'm here with the 2.0 version, you can lower the 3.0 version. Click to download

2,ntbootautofix v2.0.2, used to repair the dual-system boot display menu. Click to download

3,windows XP system Mirror (. iso) or System Ghost file (. Gho) (Unzip the image file with the decompression software, the largest file in general, 700MB or so) here is recommended to use mirrored files. Because there are too many options available for the reader to choose from, note that it is best to choose a system mirror with AHCI Drive, because some new notebooks default AHCI hard disk mode, and XP only supports IDE mode, in which case the installation of XP will be blue screen.

4, Virtual optical drive (Ghost Image installer), Division Magician, here in the morning Maple PE integrated there.

Now start teaching you how to install the Ghost XP system Win7

1, set the U disk for the first start and enter the PE system. Boot press F2 into Bois, the boot option to set the U disk as the first boot disk, by pressing F6 (some SHIFT +) to adjust the order. (or Boot press ESC to select the boot disk, that is, your U disk). Press F10 to save and reboot into PE system.

If the front is plus, press ENTER.

Note the various notebook settings the first boot disk is not necessarily the same

Press F10 to save and exit

Select the first item

2, set up the Win XP disk partition. After entering FE click "Start" Menu-"program-" Disk Utility-"disk partition management win PM." Enter the partition interface. We can see that there are two primary partitions (a win XP, a Win7, which has been divided up by the XP system disk, where you can allocate about 15G of disk space to XP, if you are in the logical partitioning part of the XP system, the requirements are set to the primary partition and are active. Set the original Win7 partition as inactive (and hidden). If you previously had a genuine Win7 (three primary partitions in it), you would need to set the restore partition as a logical partition, and then set the XP partition as the primary partition.

3, restore the system. Using a virtual optical drive to load a mirrored file that is already good, in fact, you can put the system image files in addition to Win7 and WinXP disk, such as copying faster, point to open the DVD XP system installation disk, restore the system to the previous partition of the XP disk (pay attention to the disk, otherwise the consequences are very serious). To restore the program after the copy, prompted to reboot, click OK. Unplug u disk, the system will automatically enter XP after the installation program, wait a few minutes to install a good XP system.

4, repair the System selection menu. Run the downloaded good ntbootautofix v2.0.2, software, according to the prompts to repair, reboot can see the System selection menu.

At this point, the dual system installation was successful.

Problems that may occur midway through the installation:

1, unable to enter the PE, in the halfway into the blue screen. The hard drive mode is not changed to IDE because this PE system does not support AHCI mode. The workaround is to set the hard disk mode to IDE instead of AHCI in Bois.

2, after the PE restore system restart prompts a file (NTLDR) lost or did not find the system, can not install the system. It may be that you forget to set the XP partition as the active primary partition. The workaround is to set the XP partition as the active primary partition and make the Win7 partition inactive.

3, after the restoration of the system in PE after the restart of the default into the Win7 system, can not enter the XP system installation page. Here you may forget to set the XP partition as the active primary partition, or forget to set the Win7 partition as an inactive partition. The solution is to reset the partition strictly as requested in the second step above. The XP partition is the active primary partition, and the Win7 partition is an inactive primary partition

4, enter the XP blue screen or install the dual system after entering the Win7 blue screen. This is the result of different hard disk modes supported by the two systems. This generally occurs more in newer computers. In the case of the former, the XP system does not support AHCI mode, the solution is two: 1, reinstall the AHCI-driven XP system, 2, enter the IDE mode after the Bois, install the XP system, download the related software repair, Here is an article to resolve XP does not support AHCI mode: http://acerbbs.zol.com.cn/41/218_401108.html. Not validated, I don't know if it works. If the latter situation occurs, the Win7 system that was previously installed does not support IDE mode, so you can do it yourself. The occurrence of blue screen seems to occur more in the core I series of second generation CPU notebook.