Hi there! I'm having an issue with my PC regarding dual-boot Windows 8.1 and Windows XP. I had as my primairly boot OS Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center (x64) and I decided to dual boot with Windows XP Professional SP3 (x86). The thing is, yesterday I successfully installed and get to work Windows XP but now I can't boot into Windows 8.1! Windows 8.1 is still on my hard drive with all it's core files, my programs, etc. I don't want to reinstall Windows 8.1 on my PC, I just want (if possible) to regain access to this OS without losing programs or the entire OS. Thanks in anticipation!
Thank you very much! I completely forgot about this, how silly of me! xDDD Anyway, thanks... you saved my life! ^_^ EDIT: Well, this is not actually resolved at all, now I can boot into Windows 8.1 with no problem... but now I can't boot into Windows XP, what is it? Win8.1 and WinXP can't be together, because it seems to hate each other! Lool!!! If you or anyone can help me to really dual-boot those OS at startup, please explain me how to do it! I will be very grateful... thanks again!
Are we talking lappy or desktop ? If a desktop set up each OS on it's own drive. If a lappy maybe a third party app like EasyBCD could help out.
My PC is a laptop, a HP Pavilion g6! I do appreciate all the help provided guys, now everything works as it should. Thank you!
you can go to msconfig to set right it open run > msconfig > go to boot tab and set timeout to 30 seconds and you are good to go.