I'm running two environments, windows 7 for home and XP for work. Its a Lenovo W500 that work gave me with XP installed. The problem is when i run windows 7 and then reboot into xp it seems to lose the video drivers. If i restart the system again it seems to come up fine. it only happens when i first boot XP after shutting down from windows 7. The Videocard is an ATI Mobility FireGL V5700. I have updated the drivers and Bios in both OSs. I haven't been able to find anything on this googleing. Any Ideas?

5/3/2010 3:49:55 PM

I would suggest using XP mode in Win7 and forget about rebooting to XP (or VMware or virturalbox or ...). As for why the video drivers won't behave, no idea.

5/3/2010 5:02:30 PM

^ yup

5/3/2010 6:07:45 PM

At work i have to boot to the windowsxp partition due to how i'm set up on their system.

5/3/2010 6:09:43 PM

Have you tried doing a power-off reboot (shutdown->power button) instead?

5/3/2010 8:26:31 PM

All of our work laptops run XP, but there are several here who use Windows 7 on their own hard drive with the corporate image running in VMware. This would be my suggestion also.

Are the environments on different logical drives on the laptop?

5/4/2010 12:48:58 AM

^yes, they are on separate logical drives..

^^What do you mean exactly? I have tried completely shutting down and rebooting, not just restarting.

[Edited on May 4, 2010 at 8:21 AM. Reason : .]

5/4/2010 8:18:46 AM

bttt, any more ideas?

5/5/2010 8:18:08 AM

I was thinking if i hibernate xp instead of shutting down to try and circumvent the driver problem. you can't boot to a different os when hibernating unless you use some sort of boot loader.

will this work like i hope? and what would a good boot loader be to switch between xp and windows 7?

5/7/2010 9:28:26 AM

Yes that should work, even with window's bootloader. If not, get grub on there, itll fix it. I used to do this all the time when I dualbooted my laptop.

5/7/2010 6:29:14 PM