Shutter Bug on Wheels » XP http://blogs.nagwani.in My travels, clicks, views and everything else... Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:40:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 ISO Burning on XP http://blogs.nagwani.in/2010/05/02/iso-burning-on-xp/ http://blogs.nagwani.in/2010/05/02/iso-burning-on-xp/#comments Sun, 02 May 2010 07:22:11 +0000 DeeJay http://blogs.nagwani.in/?p=103 I just downloaded Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) in the ISO format and realized that I have no CD burning software on the machine! Darn it! Happens to be all the time… still I do not learn and installing the CD burning software is never on my checklist. A quick google search lead me to ISO . . . → Read More: ISO Burning on XP]]> I just downloaded Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) in the ISO format and realized that I have no CD burning software on the machine! Darn it! Happens to be all the time… still I do not learn and installing the CD burning software is never on my checklist.

A quick google search lead me to ISO Recorder v 2. ISO Recorder v 2 is a Power Toy for XP and adds a new context menu item – “Copy Image to CD” as shown below.

It does the job pretty good. I have just burn’t the Lucid Lynx CD and will test it out. Hopefully an update to this post will be posted from Lucid Lynx.

]]> http://blogs.nagwani.in/2010/05/02/iso-burning-on-xp/feed/ 0 Windows 7 & XP Pro Dual Boot (Both already installed) http://blogs.nagwani.in/2009/07/07/windows-7-xp-pro-dual-boot-both-already-installed/ http://blogs.nagwani.in/2009/07/07/windows-7-xp-pro-dual-boot-both-already-installed/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:16:47 +0000 DeeJay http://blogs.nagwani.in/?p=86 Recently I had to install XP on top of my Windows 7 install to be able to update by Nokia E71 as I did not want to run NSU on 7 and risk bricking my phone! However, in the process I realized that I had lost the ability to boot into Windows 7!! Thank you . . . → Read More: Windows 7 & XP Pro Dual Boot (Both already installed)]]> Recently I had to install XP on top of my Windows 7 install to be able to update by Nokia E71 as I did not want to run NSU on 7 and risk bricking my phone! However, in the process I realized that I had lost the ability to boot into Windows 7!! Thank you Microsoft!

Did some googling around and found that Microsoft had changed the boot configuration format and I cannot simply edit boot.ini and add an entry for Windows 7. More googling followed, but all I found was how to install one on top of the other and nothing that showed how to restore the Windows 7′s boot menu.

Atlast, I found and entry at TechArena forums that helped me do what I wanted to do!

I had installed Windows 7 and XP on different hard drives and hence both systems’ boot files were already in place and all I had to do was execute the following commands.

bcdedit /create {ntldr} /d “Windows XP Pro”
bcdedit /set {ntldr} device boot
bcdedit /set {ntldr} path \ntldr
bcdedit /displayorder {ntldr} /addlast

Thank you Devasis @ TechArena Forums.

UPDATE: You have to run the above commands on a command prompt (“cmd”) which itself, you need to run as an administrator. Else you will get the “Access Denied” error.

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