Hello all I have tried and failed for the past four hours or so to get Windows 7 and XP dual booting with each other. I originaly had Windows 7 installed on one hard drive and then installed XP on a seperate hard drive. Because I installed XP after 7 I had to run the Windows 7 recovary to gain access back to the Win 7 bootloader and Win 7. However the problem arose when trying to add Win XP to the Win 7 bootloader (which is the same bootloader as Vista I believe). Vistabootpro has failed me and cannot detect the XP installation, and manually adding XP comes up with the same error as adding XP to the bootloader in the command prompt using "bcdedit". The error being that: XP shows up in the bootloader but upon selecting it, it says that I am missing ntldr! Now ntldr, ntdetect and boot.ini are present at the root of the XP drive, and I have coppied them to the Win 7 drive too. This is the vistabootpro overview: There is currently 3 OS(s) installed on your system. The current boot timeout is: 30 Default OS: Windows 7 Ultimate Entry 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Windows 7 Ultimate BCD ID: {current} Boot Drive: C: Windows Drive: C: System Bootloader: \Windows\system32\winload.exe Windows Directory: \Windows Entry 2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Windows Recovery Environment BCD ID: {3a0eb0a1-06da-11de-9e0f-e41057b9e8fa} Boot Drive: :]\Recovery\8226a662-df7d-11dd-baf5-91a0d58c54fa\Winre.wim,{3a0eb0a2-06da-11de-9e0f-e41057b9e8fa} Windows Drive: :]\Recovery\8226a662-df7d-11dd-baf5-91a0d58c54fa\Winre.wim,{3a0eb0a2-06da-11de-9e0f-e41057b9e8fa} System Bootloader: \windows\system32\winload.exe Windows Directory: \windows Entry 3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Windows XP BCD ID: {ntldr} Boot Drive: E: System Bootloader: ntldr and the detailed version: Windows Boot Manager -------------------- identifier {bootmgr} device partition=E: path \bootmgr description Windows Boot Manager default {current} displayorder {current} {3a0eb0a1-06da-11de-9e0f-e41057b9e8fa} {ntldr} timeout 30 Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {current} device partition=C: path \Windows\system32\winload.exe description Windows 7 Ultimate recoverysequence {3a0eb0a1-06da-11de-9e0f-e41057b9e8fa} recoveryenabled Yes osdevice partition=C: systemroot \Windows resumeobject {70f0656c-0698-11de-a891-806e6f6e6963} Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {3a0eb0a1-06da-11de-9e0f-e41057b9e8fa} device ramdisk=[C:]\Recovery\8226a662-df7d-11dd-baf5-91a0d58c54fa\Winre.wim,{3a0eb0a2-06da-11de-9e0f-e41057b9e8fa} path \windows\system32\winload.exe description Windows Recovery Environment osdevice ramdisk=[C:]\Recovery\8226a662-df7d-11dd-baf5-91a0d58c54fa\Winre.wim,{3a0eb0a2-06da-11de-9e0f-e41057b9e8fa} systemroot \windows detecthal Yes winpe Yes Resume from Hibernate --------------------- identifier {70f0656c-0698-11de-a891-806e6f6e6963} device partition=C: path \Windows\system32\winresume.exe description Windows 7 Ultimate (recovered) inherit {resumeloadersettings} filedevice partition=C: filepath \hiberfil.sys debugoptionenabled No Windows Memory Tester --------------------- identifier {memdiag} device partition=E: path \boot\memtest.exe description Windows Memory Diagnostic Windows Legacy OS Loader ------------------------ identifier {ntldr} device partition=E: path ntldr description Windows XP Device options -------------- identifier {3a0eb0a2-06da-11de-9e0f-e41057b9e8fa} ramdisksdidevice partition=C: ramdisksdipath \Recovery\8226a662-df7d-11dd-baf5-91a0d58c54fa\boot.sdi So to summarise: Windows 7 200mb recov = Disk 1 partition 1 = D drive Windows 7 = Disk 1 partition 2 = C Drive Windows XP = Disk 2 = E Drive All three of the above appear in the bootloader. Win 7 loads fine as does the recovary enviroment however Win XP says it is missing ntldr even though it is present mad.gif if anyone can help me it would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance
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