Thanks for helping me with my screw up. Let me paint the whole picture first so we are all on the same page.
Original System:
Disk 0 (300G)= one copy of XP for gaming
Disk 1 (1.5T) = one copy of XP for Work
installed one hard drive at a time while installing windows as not to over write anything and used osl2000 to boot
Then Got a virus on Disk 1 and it was hosed all up.
Had to Reformat
Since I had to Might as well up grade to win7
So this is what I did: (all on Disk 1 (1.5 T)
Then I got the bright Idea to Install Another win7 to try programs and down loads out so if they corrupt the system, Oh Well. Just reformat that partion and not mess up my work. Well he is where it went south. While doing the (Try Before You Buy ) install of win 7 I decided that I no longer needed the original install of xp on disk 0. So I chose to reformat it and I will use it for just storage.
I have since learned from your instructions that the boot files sit their.
Only win7 (try before buy) was left in boot screen
Installed disk and it fixed all the win 7 installs but not the first xp install
So I down loaded
bcd 1.7.2 and it let me add xp to the list but I needed NTLDR and NTDETECT.com
So I down loaded them, It said to put them in Device\hard disk volume 1
Not sure where that is but I put them in Disk 0 with the other boot files and I get an error about the NTLDR file. I think I am missing a file called boot ini that every one is talking about?
Here is a picture
http://www.thewbninc.com/disk manage.jpg
So my questions are
1) how to get xp working again? (make a boot ini from scratch?)
Wil2c
Addendum:
Update:
---> I downloaded 2.0 BCD and moved my files from disk 0 to disk 1... thats fixed
---> The error thak I get when trying to load xp is:
File:\NTLDR
Status:0xc000000f
Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt
Original System:
Disk 0 (300G)= one copy of XP for gaming
Disk 1 (1.5T) = one copy of XP for Work
installed one hard drive at a time while installing windows as not to over write anything and used osl2000 to boot
Then Got a virus on Disk 1 and it was hosed all up.
Had to Reformat
Since I had to Might as well up grade to win7
So this is what I did: (all on Disk 1 (1.5 T)
- installed XP and made a few partions on Disk 1
- installed Win7 work
- installed win 7 games
Then I got the bright Idea to Install Another win7 to try programs and down loads out so if they corrupt the system, Oh Well. Just reformat that partion and not mess up my work. Well he is where it went south. While doing the (Try Before You Buy ) install of win 7 I decided that I no longer needed the original install of xp on disk 0. So I chose to reformat it and I will use it for just storage.
I have since learned from your instructions that the boot files sit their.
Only win7 (try before buy) was left in boot screen
Installed disk and it fixed all the win 7 installs but not the first xp install
So I down loaded
bcd 1.7.2 and it let me add xp to the list but I needed NTLDR and NTDETECT.com
So I down loaded them, It said to put them in Device\hard disk volume 1
Not sure where that is but I put them in Disk 0 with the other boot files and I get an error about the NTLDR file. I think I am missing a file called boot ini that every one is talking about?
Here is a picture
http://www.thewbninc.com/disk manage.jpg
So my questions are
1) how to get xp working again? (make a boot ini from scratch?)
- need to move the boot files off disk 0 to dist 1 do I just copy and paste?
- Then I suppose that in the bios I can then change the boot order so the 1.5 terra drive boots first and it will work?
Wil2c
Addendum:
Update:
---> I downloaded 2.0 BCD and moved my files from disk 0 to disk 1... thats fixed
---> The error thak I get when trying to load xp is:
File:\NTLDR
Status:0xc000000f
Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt
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