i have windows 7 installed on c drive and now i had installed windows xp sp2 in my f drive but now when system shows the option to choos which windows to boot an i chose win 7 then one black screen appears and it is unable to boot windows 7. i have canged this in boot.ini in windows xp sp2 ans its showing this is not a valid option for a windowsi am unable to boot only windows XP sp2 multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 7 " /noexecute=optin /fastdetect what should i do to run both the windows1 person needs an answerI do too

Boot with your Windows 7 installation DVD and do a startup repair. Windows 7 doesn't use boot.ini. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html Dual-boot preinstalled Win7 with XP http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/8790/dual-boot-your-pre-installed-windows-7-computer-with-xp/MS-MVP - Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!