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Hi Terry, Thank you. I was just wondering because in XP it shows both XP and XP(2) when I have my 2nd XP HDD plugged in. With W7, it only shows itself.

Hi guys, @Terry: I had to LOL out loud when I read that! :D It wasn't until a month ago that I was finally able to install XP SP2 without having to rebuild everything. I've got my computer super tweaked (startup = 48 seconds; shutdown = 8 seconds) and I think that may have been part of the...

Hi 007, TA DA!!! :D Simply copying the files and amending the boot.ini did the trick. I really wish I'd been told that that's all I needed to do instead of wasting mine and everyone else's time on this. But, Thank You! I'll pass this along.

Hi Terry, Yes, it was a typo. Win7 is the 40GB drive and XP is the 20GB drive. It's one of the drives I use to experiment or tweak before I do anything on my main XP 120GB drive. Anyway, Yes. That's where I got the ntdetect.com and ntldr files. All I need to do now is copy\paste the boot.ini...

Hi Terry, Thank you for moving my post. :) And, thanks for the link. I read it and that's why I requested a "for dummies" instructions. And as far a bootgrabber goes, the W7 installation was on a clean, formatted (512 cluster size), 20GB drive with 2 partitions, hookedup as the only drive...

Hi Coolname007, Nothing has worked so far. When I launch EasyBCD and try to add an Entry, bootgrabber uses 99% of my CPU and EBCD freezes. Then when I "End Task" in Applications for EBCD, I also have to "End Process" in Processes. On restart of EBCD, XP shows in the window with W7. And, I...

Hi Coolname007, When I launched EasyBCD 2.0 and tried to add Windows XP, the program froze and I noticed the temp of my CPU up in the 135+ range. I did a Task Mangler and it showed bootgrabber.exe was using 99% of my CPU. And now I noticed in your post you said, " just copy over the files...

Hi Terry, Yes, that's what I did in the BIOS, set HDD-1 (W7) as second boot device and HDD-0 (XP) as the third boot device. Or, do you mean that W7 should be set, jumpered and connected as Master, and in the BIOS set to HDD-0? Then hook up the XP disk as Slave? I think I already tried that...

Hi Coolname007, I put CDROM first because, well, if anything happens, you need to boot to a Floppy or CD to recover, repair, etc. Nope! Still had the Vista Screen. So, I thought I'd start over again by uninstalling the Vista Bootloader and letting W7 boot to itself. WRONG!!! I got the gray...

Hi guys, I'm back. No Joy. I did steps 1-2-3, then I clicked "Add Entry" and selected XP. On reboot, my XP bootscreen came up and showed "XP" as first and "XP(2)" as second, like it normally does. I let it boot to XP and everything was OK. Then I rebooted and selected "XP(2)" thinking I just...

Hi Guru, OK! I'm going to close out of everything, do steps 1 to 3, then do my "p.s.". And, Thanks(!) for the quick reply. I'll post back with the results.

Hi Master Mage, Thanks for the quick reply. And, please forgive me for being so dense, but I know others are going to be in the same boat I am and I want to make sure I've got it right. Launch EasyBCD: (duh) 1) Click "Manage Bootloader" 2) Click "Reinstall Vista Bootloader 3) Click "Write...

Hi all, I've read until my eyes are bleeding, and just when I get to the "aha!" point, the next sentence throws me. I really am a newbie, but we all gotta start someplace. Here's my situation: I have WinXP on my main HDD(0). I have Win7 on my second HDD(1) hooked up as a slave drive. I used to...

Hi Jake, Don't know yet. I had the drive hooked up as a slave, fully intending to do as you said. However, accessing it from XP Explorer to copy\paste BCD (as well as a couple of folders with programs I knew probably wouldn't work — I am testing it afterall) to the "D:" partition, and seeing...

Hi Coolname007, Thanks! Well, you've done admirably. All users (newbies, anyway) need a little hand-holding when doing something unfamiliar and there's a possibility of bollixing things up. As I said, I've read...

Hi Jake, Thanks for the "fix". It's a lot less brain damage than other stuff I've seen. I've looked at the screen shots of BCD, and I don't know what I'm doing. Since you know what my configuration is and what I want to do, would you please spell it out for me in 1-2-3 fashion? And, do I...

Hi all, I've been reading until my eyes are bleeding trying to figure out how to dual boot XP and Win7 on separate drives and I'm still lost. WhoWhatWhenWhereWhy: On HDD (0) I have Win XP Pro with 3 partitions (C:\, D:\, E:\) and I have a CD-RW (F:\) and a DVD-RW (G:\). On my second\Slave...