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Postby pojobrown » Sun Feb 07, 2010 12:41 pm

i have vista xp and 7 install and i want it to ask wich one i want to boot up when i turn my computer on how do i do that. curently it just goes to vista. it used to ask me but now it dosnt. how can i fix this
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Re: Tri Boot

Postby Sentinelace » Sun Feb 07, 2010 3:23 pm

why are you running all 3? lol. really confused between vista and 7. I do believe there is a bootloader program and a post on this somewhere here already
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Re: Tri Boot

Postby pojobrown » Sun Feb 07, 2010 9:10 pm

well i have 3 diferent hardrives and i curently have windows xp, vista, and 7 installed on them all seperatly obviously . but when i turn my computer on it ask to boot vista or 7 and i want to add xp to the list
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Re: Tri Boot

Postby Sentinelace » Sun Feb 07, 2010 9:35 pm

I believe the bootloader program will allow this to work. Did you find the thread?
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Re: Tri Boot

Postby midgetjacko1 » Sun Feb 07, 2010 10:17 pm

here is the thread that i think that sent is talking about that program is handy for stuff like this

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Re: Tri Boot

Postby mstrkrft » Sun Feb 07, 2010 11:01 pm

any specific reason you are running all three on the same machine? Why not just run them all win7 or XP? If you want to try the other OS's you can always do a virtual machine. VM software is getting better and better every day.
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Re: Tri Boot

Postby pojobrown » Mon Feb 08, 2010 5:07 pm

my computer came with vista. installed xp a while ago because of some reasons i cant remeber, and now im trying out 7 which is pretty fing cool if you ask me. and you know what is cool in vista and 7. create a new folder on desktop and rename it to..............


GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}


pretty cool
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Re: Tri Boot

Postby mstrkrft » Mon Feb 08, 2010 5:20 pm

yep, i heard about that.

If you like 7 so much then I would get rid of the other two.
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Re: Tri Boot

Postby pojobrown » Mon Feb 08, 2010 5:52 pm

how can i unstall them without formating
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Re: Tri Boot

Postby Sentinelace » Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:42 pm

You can't. You have to format the drive to kill the OS on that drive. You only need to format the drives with OS's you don't want/need. Vmware as stated above makes it much easier.
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