Hi, I'm new here - have been really grateful to find this place. First attempt at the Vista/XP dual boot hasn't worked, but I'm sure you can help me
I have an Acer 7720g, with 2x 160Gb HDs - Vista Home Premium came pre-installed and there's a recovery partition, which I've left in place (and burnt recovery DVDs)
The first disk in the notebook had Vista on C:\, and another NTFS partition, then the second disk also ntfs. I installed XP SP2 onto the second partition of the first disk. This all went well, all drivers installed and it boots straight into XP*. In XP it looked like this C:\ Vista, D:\ Data(second disk) and E:\ XP
Then I came to the dual boot bit following the instructions from your XP wiki. I installed .Net 2.0 and .Net 2.0 SP1 then EasyBCD 1.7.1. I got the msvcr71.dll error, but, as advised, carried on. I did the Re-install Vista Bootloader and Write MBR bit and that was fine
Then I got to Add\Remove Entries, chose Windows NT/2k/XP/2003 and called it Windows XP. When I clicked Add Entry I got this error message
"Unhandled exception error has occurred...Index and count must rfer to a location within the string. Parameter name: count"
It then gave me a choice (abort or continue(?)) and I chose continue and then rebooted
On reboot the boot stopped at:
Windows Error recovery. Windows failed to start then 2 choces
1)Launch Startup repair - (this achieved nothing except coming back to this menu)
2) Start Windows normally - (This booted me straight into Vista)
Now I'm in Vista and Vista only - can you get back my XP installation and the boot menu choice please?
When this is done I want to go on to add OS X on the other HD
Many thanks
Marco
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*(I changed SATA mode in BIOS from AHCI to IDE to install XP, then once up and running I forced installed SATA AHCI controller drivers in XP and restarted in AHCI mode and everything worked fine)
Addendum:
I've now installed EasyBCD on Vista
Went to Tools > Edit Legacy Entries
It reads like this:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
I have an Acer 7720g, with 2x 160Gb HDs - Vista Home Premium came pre-installed and there's a recovery partition, which I've left in place (and burnt recovery DVDs)
The first disk in the notebook had Vista on C:\, and another NTFS partition, then the second disk also ntfs. I installed XP SP2 onto the second partition of the first disk. This all went well, all drivers installed and it boots straight into XP*. In XP it looked like this C:\ Vista, D:\ Data(second disk) and E:\ XP
Then I came to the dual boot bit following the instructions from your XP wiki. I installed .Net 2.0 and .Net 2.0 SP1 then EasyBCD 1.7.1. I got the msvcr71.dll error, but, as advised, carried on. I did the Re-install Vista Bootloader and Write MBR bit and that was fine
Then I got to Add\Remove Entries, chose Windows NT/2k/XP/2003 and called it Windows XP. When I clicked Add Entry I got this error message
"Unhandled exception error has occurred...Index and count must rfer to a location within the string. Parameter name: count"
It then gave me a choice (abort or continue(?)) and I chose continue and then rebooted
On reboot the boot stopped at:
Windows Error recovery. Windows failed to start then 2 choces
1)Launch Startup repair - (this achieved nothing except coming back to this menu)
2) Start Windows normally - (This booted me straight into Vista)
Now I'm in Vista and Vista only - can you get back my XP installation and the boot menu choice please?
When this is done I want to go on to add OS X on the other HD
Many thanks
Marco
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*(I changed SATA mode in BIOS from AHCI to IDE to install XP, then once up and running I forced installed SATA AHCI controller drivers in XP and restarted in AHCI mode and everything worked fine)
Addendum:
I've now installed EasyBCD on Vista
Went to Tools > Edit Legacy Entries
It reads like this:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
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