Hello,
I have a triple boot machine with XPired, Win 7 and Ubuntu, Easy BCD 2.2 is on XPired. XP was the first one on this HD. All OS's boot and run fine as they are. Here's the problem.
When I make an Acronis image of the drive and MBR, and put it on another HD as a 'bare metal restore' the only one that will boot is XP. This puzzles me since I am imaging the MBR along with everything else. I can use the 7 install disc to make 7 boot up, and if I use the Boot Recovery Disc for Linux. I can make Ubuntu boot as well, but that disc puts Grub in charge of booting everything and i don't like that. Really, Grub is on the same partition as Ubuntu. I didn't want it to be in charge of booting the MS OS's. Plus if Grub fails I can still boot to 7.
I understand why 7 won't boot on it's own, all it's boot info was written into XP. I can live with restoring 7 using the install disc, it beats re-installing all my programs again.
Something tells me that EasyBCD is preventing the 'imaged' systems from booting, I know that of the 3 boot entries in EasyBCD the 3rd on for Ubuntu looks odd. Why if I am imaging the whole drive and the MBR only one OS will boot. The original one boots all 3 systems just fine but the imaged one won't. Makes no sense to me. Should I re-install EasyBCD into XP and let it discover the other two OS's?
Thanks in advance to all!
I have a triple boot machine with XPired, Win 7 and Ubuntu, Easy BCD 2.2 is on XPired. XP was the first one on this HD. All OS's boot and run fine as they are. Here's the problem.
When I make an Acronis image of the drive and MBR, and put it on another HD as a 'bare metal restore' the only one that will boot is XP. This puzzles me since I am imaging the MBR along with everything else. I can use the 7 install disc to make 7 boot up, and if I use the Boot Recovery Disc for Linux. I can make Ubuntu boot as well, but that disc puts Grub in charge of booting everything and i don't like that. Really, Grub is on the same partition as Ubuntu. I didn't want it to be in charge of booting the MS OS's. Plus if Grub fails I can still boot to 7.
I understand why 7 won't boot on it's own, all it's boot info was written into XP. I can live with restoring 7 using the install disc, it beats re-installing all my programs again.
Something tells me that EasyBCD is preventing the 'imaged' systems from booting, I know that of the 3 boot entries in EasyBCD the 3rd on for Ubuntu looks odd. Why if I am imaging the whole drive and the MBR only one OS will boot. The original one boots all 3 systems just fine but the imaged one won't. Makes no sense to me. Should I re-install EasyBCD into XP and let it discover the other two OS's?
Thanks in advance to all!