Greetings all. This is my first post here. Was wondering if you can assist me. Here is the situation.
I have win 7 64 installed on a single SSD drive.
I want to install winXP/SP3 to run some legacy hardware.
I intended to raid a couple of drives and install winXP to it, but ran into a few issues. So I decided to install those two Sata drives in a non-raid setup.
Now, the Bios set one of those drives as the second bood drive (as opposed to my Win 7 SSD drive. (The first boot drive is of course my DVD drive). I didn't spot this until it was too late. I installed winXP without any issues, but of course it sees this drive a the C drive, and didn't overight the bootloader files on my Win 7 instalation.
(In any case, I did previously try to install WinXP on a seperate HD but it would never get fully installed, as whenever the instalation re-boots to run the set-up, I would get an error message, and continuing the installation was impossible.)
So.. back to where we were...
I changed the boot order so my Win 7 on the SSD and can boot without any issues. I run EasyBCD and it adds WinXP to the boot choices, but when I try to select Win XP, I get an error message.
So....my question is: what can I do to get WinXP to run?
-Go back and change the boot order to WinXP's HD and run EasyBCD from there?
-Edit the boot.ini file that EasyBCD creates on the win 7 SSD drive?
-Or some other solution.
I have made backup images of my win 7 drive as well as my win XP drive with Acronis as a safety measure, so it's not an issue to getting back to my original setup.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Addendum:
Thought I'd add some additional information:
The error message I get when I try to boot to Win XP is the following:
"Invalid Boot.ini file
Booting from c:\windows\NTDETECT failed.
The Boot.ini file created by EasyBCD:
[boot loader]
timeout=15
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP on G:\" /fastdetect
The Boot.ini created by rhe Windows XP instalation:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /usepmtimer
I have win 7 64 installed on a single SSD drive.
I want to install winXP/SP3 to run some legacy hardware.
I intended to raid a couple of drives and install winXP to it, but ran into a few issues. So I decided to install those two Sata drives in a non-raid setup.
Now, the Bios set one of those drives as the second bood drive (as opposed to my Win 7 SSD drive. (The first boot drive is of course my DVD drive). I didn't spot this until it was too late. I installed winXP without any issues, but of course it sees this drive a the C drive, and didn't overight the bootloader files on my Win 7 instalation.
(In any case, I did previously try to install WinXP on a seperate HD but it would never get fully installed, as whenever the instalation re-boots to run the set-up, I would get an error message, and continuing the installation was impossible.)
So.. back to where we were...
I changed the boot order so my Win 7 on the SSD and can boot without any issues. I run EasyBCD and it adds WinXP to the boot choices, but when I try to select Win XP, I get an error message.
So....my question is: what can I do to get WinXP to run?
-Go back and change the boot order to WinXP's HD and run EasyBCD from there?
-Edit the boot.ini file that EasyBCD creates on the win 7 SSD drive?
-Or some other solution.
I have made backup images of my win 7 drive as well as my win XP drive with Acronis as a safety measure, so it's not an issue to getting back to my original setup.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Addendum:
Thought I'd add some additional information:
The error message I get when I try to boot to Win XP is the following:
"Invalid Boot.ini file
Booting from c:\windows\NTDETECT failed.
The Boot.ini file created by EasyBCD:
[boot loader]
timeout=15
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP on G:\" /fastdetect
The Boot.ini created by rhe Windows XP instalation:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /usepmtimer
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